Beverages On A Plane!

Yahoo explains how The new fly rules are no problem at all.
I’m still trying to determine what exactly the new rules are – but it seems to be that you can’t bring in water from outside the airport, and you have to check your toiletries and stuff now.
Bad news. Many people never check their luggage because of having one bad post-911 TSA experience or another. Perhaps they are trying to finish off the airline industry once and for all.


(Thanks Cory)

Jon Stewart’s Post 911 Monologue in Multiple Formats – A Great Dabble Example

Many of you responded to my request for Jon’s post-911 monologue. Thanks so much for your help.
It gives me a chance to explain how Dabble is a useful tool for collecting information about video clips.
I’ve created an example record here:
Jon Stewart’s Post-911 Monologue.
I had an embedded youtube video of this here, but it takes to long for the page to load, so you’ll have to click on More.

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Cool New Library Of Human Rights Resources: Human Rights Tools.org

Hey I just got an email with some important information about a new website for Human Rights Resources. It looks pretty useful:

Human Rights Tools

We would like to tell you about a new website for human rights professionals called
Human Rights Tools.
It offers four services:
1. A library of carefully selected and commented resources:

http://www.humanrightstools.org/index.htm
You will find:
– monitoring and fact-finding tools, advocacy tools and other essential resources
for human rights work
– thematic resources on the protection of detainees, human rights defenders,
refugees, and more
– the top online databases for resources on human rights law, refugee law and
humanitarian law
… and much more. We have even set up a section called “Your career” where you will
find job vacancies and training opportunities:

http://www.humanrightstools.org/dcd/8_Your_career/
2. Key resources for country analysis:

http://www.humanrightstools.org/countryanalysis.htm
To rapidly establish the human rights profile of a particular country and to
facilitate analysis and follow-up of developments, you can draw on a number of
resources listed here: the situation in terms of human rights, political and
conflict analysis, the economics, the legal instruments which that country has
ratified, and human rights-relevant news.
3. Daily updated human rights headlines:

http://www.humanrightstools.org/rssnews.htm
This page will provide you with fresh human rights news from a selection of top
sources – all on one convenient page and updated automatically every time you visit.
We currently list headlines from the following sources: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty,
FIDH, Human Rights Listings, Reliefweb, Inter Press Service. Be sure to bookmark
this page!
4. Our newsletter:
If you are interested in receiving updates on new tools and resources, then
subscribe to our newsletter – we have several exciting issues in the pipeline:

http://www.humanrightstools.org/newsletter.htm

SF Gate On The Video Scene – Dabble Gets A Nice Mention!

SF Gate did a little ditty on the video hosting scene (that we’re vigorously tracking at Dabble) and how it looks like some of the smaller hosts might start consolidating soon.
Dabble, of course, isn’t a hosting service, we’re a video searching/social networking site that can help you find video across all hosters.
Here are some quotes from Ellen Lee’s article. Funny how she first talks about companies “dabbling” in video, then goes on to actually talk about Dabble.

By one count, about 240 sites now dabble in online video. And chances are many won’t survive the next year. Some will simply shut down; others likely will be gobbled up by larger companies…
Dabble, a Berkeley startup, plans to start its online video search site this week. It lets users search for and collect video from other sites on a personal page; members can also join communities on topics such as cooking, where they help identify the best the Web has to offer on cooking-related videos.
For several months, as part of the database it’s building, Dabble has been tracking the growing number of online video sites, which by its count has reached nearly 240.
Not all will last, said Dabble founder Mary Hodder. But if cable and satellite television can have more than 200 channels, Hodder said, why can’t the Internet? And why can’t there be something like Dabble to act as a TV Guide for the Web? (Incidentally, TV Guide offers an editorial guide online on the latest, most entertaining video clips and shows on the Web, though it’s mainly focused on traditional Hollywood fare from Lifetime, Comedy Central, Disney and others.)
“When you turn on your TV, do you just go to NBC?” Hodder said. “If (the online video sites) are creative and provide different services, then they can end up thriving.”

Act NOW to keep NSA cases in public court


Go to the EFF’s Action Center now real quick and
Keep the NSA Wiretapping Case In Non-Secret Court
from boing boing:

Cindy Cohn, EFF’s stellar Legal Director, sez, “Senator Specter and the Bush Administration today announced that they have reached a deal to send all of the cases concerning the illegal NSA wiretapping (including EFF’s) to the secret FISA court. This is being spun in the press as a big concession by the Administration but in truth it’s an abomination — the FISA court acts in secret and doesn’t even hear argument from both sides. This bill will likely move fast, so we only have a limited window to try to stop it.

(Thanks Cory!)

Get Your Media Information Into Dabble

Hi guys.
So you’ve heard me babbling about Dabble a lot lately, and that’s because it’s not only my new job, it’s a natural progression for my continuing obsession with building a giant library of video information.
It’s pretty cool to be able to pay the rent doing something I already love to do: collect media.
That said — I’d love to include your stuff! No collection of video is too large or too small, and we can import just about any variation of a structured data format!
Email me at lisa@dabble.com about getting your past archive in and adding your RSS feed so we can get all your content in the future.
thanks!

Finally Got A Flickr Stream Going

My new focus on social networking applications quickly seduced me into creating a Flickr stream.
I’m mainly going to be uploading a backlog of pictures from the last few years — lots of wide hive stuff, two trips to europe, SFSU peeps, etc. (And I’ll try to keep things current too.)
Enjoy!