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Asset and Meeting Management

Reformatting my machine is leading me to the conclusion that I need to move more of my applications to Web 2.0 apps and online solutions. I've been using Google Calendar for my meeting and schedule management, and it's working decently, but I'm looking around for more all-inclusive apps and other interesting programs that will fill the need.

A program I found that's a bit more centric to the business world is this Scheduling Software from NetSimplicity. I took a look see at it, has a free trial - it's interesting and worth a look. I prefer my online apps to be free, ala Google, but if this software pans out to be good enough, might be worth the money.

/rizzn

Ha

So I just found out that I can get my mba online. I thought that was awesome. I was thinking about getting that or my masters in psychology. So I have these two options and what not and I am going to make my decision by the weekend and maybe start classes Monday or so. I think if n e of you want to go back to school then I would check out Capella University. Have a good one.

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A Discussion about Malkin

5:39 PM smokehouse: duuuuuude

me: sup?

smokehouse: watch hotair if you havent seen it yet

me: haven't

5:40 PM smokehouse: well, we conservatives are now considered "inappropriate" in the eyes of youtube

Malkin's group got flagged

5:41 PM me: hrm

why?

what's the given reason?

smokehouse: dome anti jihadi video she posted, or something. just watch the hotair thing

5:42 PM its San Fran...do you need a better reason?

me: i mean wha'ts the reason youtube is giving?

5:43 PM smokehouse: vilolation of terms of service...you know, standard you cant post that crap

they just sent her the form letter, she cant get a response

the majority of her posting are Fox clips

5:44 PM she's SUCH a hatemonger

me: ah

well

law's law

gotta produce original content

or ascribe to fair use

smokehouse: no dude. you need to watch it. you're missing the point

5:45 PM me: if she's using things outside fair use rules, then shit happens

it's not just her

smokehouse: thats not what its about though

me: i've had stuff canned over fair use before

what's it about?

smokehouse: watch the video. you've got 3 minutes

or whatever it is

me: url?

5:46 PM smokehouse: www.hotair.com

5:50 PM me: One, it's not YouTube that flagged her group as inappropriate.

and Two, if she posted copywritten material, and someone brought that to the attention of YouTube management, they are bound to take it down.

Three, there are tons of video sites out there with less stringent copyright policies. Choose one, and quit complaining.

5:51 PM or Four, host the video on your own domain. Bandwidth is cheap.

Whenever you publish video to someone else's site, you are subject to their whims

it's fully within YouTube's rights to censor content as they see fit.

smokehouse: oh so you think its okay that anti bush vids can be posted and anti jihad ones cant?

5:52 PM me: yep

If I had a viral video site, and I chose an arbitrary editorial policy, it's my perogative to enforce it as I see fit.

My web site, my rules.

5:53 PM smokehouse: that is true, I just dont see it as proper. I suppose it irritates me how gi snuff videos are appropriate and anti jihad ones arent

5:54 PM just kinda sick

me: This is the same thing I was addressing with the Libertarians in Broward, when they were talking about censorship on these internet sites re: video being suppressed and history being re-written.

Keep in mind YouTube is virtually a big nine.

5:55 PM They are invested in by major media conglomorates.

Same for iFilm.

Google Video, to a certain extent, has similar problems.

5:56 PM Mostly because they are a high profile company and will be forced to take things down because of copyright violations.

smokehouse: just reeks of hipocrisy, if you ask me. Freedom of speech only counts if it passes a liberal litmus test, these days

5:57 PM me: True... but we still have freedom of speech.

for 100 bucks a month, Malkin could publish her videos from her own website.

5:58 PM She chose to go into someone elses community because it was free video hosting, and it might help the viral nature of her videos. She wanted to partake in YouTubes free service, but when you play in someone elses sandbox, you have to live by their rules.

smokehouse: agreed. I'm just saying. and as far as copyright, maybe I didnt give a good example she's nsver been flagged for copyright. she got flagged for message hell, if they enforced copyright, youtube would be gone

me: And they may be arbitrary and capricious.

5:59 PM smokehouse: and she does post them to her own site usually

me: They do enforce copyright when the copyright holders complain

smokehouse: everybody uses youtube tho...its a people grab

me: when you're michelle malkin, you've got a high enough viewership for copyright holders to know about it

smokehouse: as far as I know, she's never been busted for copyright

me: And the provision she read on the show allowed for 'legal violations'

smokehouse: and really, I dont think FNC cares

6:00 PM me: which could cover copyright.

smokehouse: she works for them :)

me: True.

But Fox has been on a rampage lately removing their content from the video sites.

the major ones anyway.

Google and YouTube mostly.

smokehouse: true. but like i said, I got off on the wrong foot. this really wasnt about copyright

6:01 PM I just mentioned it because there are a bazillion fox vids on there

me: But it's likely the technicality they'll hinge this thing on with her.

smokehouse: not just hers

the video that was pulled...she made

6:02 PM so I dnt see how that'll work

me: True, but was she the originator for all the video and images she used?

smokehouse: dont know, I never saw it

6:03 PM but I'm willing to bet she has grasp of "fair use"

me: Honesltly, she should vote with her community, instead of raising a stink.

move to a different hosting site.

smokehouse: she's been around the block

me: Why fight a battle like this.

smokehouse: I dont thinkmits about actually winning a battle

6:04 PM I think she's just pointing out hipocrisy

will she win? of course not. she knows that

but she can draw attention to lopsided practices

6:05 PM me: But she's framing it in a debate.

It's a poor move, and she ultimately doesn't hold the winning hand.

Say, You suck YouTube, I'm leaving.

Not, Explain why you did this, when they have no obligation to do so.

6:07 PM smokehouse: its not necessarily about obligation. its like I told you...she's making a point.

if she didnt violate the TOS as it is written (I honestly dont remember if I saw the vid or not)

me: Well, she's making it poorly.

Wrong approach.

6:08 PM I will agree that she looks good doing it though.

smokehouse: she draws attention man.

like I said, win or lose, people will know about it

6:09 PM and sometimes thats the best you can do

me: It's not like she'd have a problem making it known.

All she'd have to do is say, YouTube Sucks, here's why, I'm moving.

then talk about it on her next FNC or Bill MAher appearance.

6:10 PM It's not like she's going to change the opinions of the management at YouTube.

or the users who flagged her group.

smokehouse: well no..but it is a way to inform people who are less astute than say you or I

me: Quite honestly, it sounds like some mildly popular liberal forum people or liberal bloggers had it';s readers/posters go to YouTube and flood the group with flags until it got flagged.

6:11 PM smokehouse: most people arent as entrenched in this crap as we are

me: True.

smokehouse: we arent the target

You and I know this crap goes on

6:12 PM its the same reason we blog, dude

when I write stuff, I dont write it for you. I know YOU know

just like you know I know

we throw it out there for those who dont, or dont have the time for it that we do

6:13 PM I mean sure, I'll discuss my stuff with you, but you arent my target

same thing with this

me: I gotcha.

6:14 PM I know. I suppose I just disagree with her approach.

Late Night; Productive Night

I've been up late working on the major Oblong Box site redesigns.

The upside is after extensive testing, we'll now be able to completely deviate our web designs from each other, and still maintain branding. That is to say, there will be a persistent navbar on top of everyone's web page, but it will not detract from the overall design, and still maintain continuity between everyone's pages.

The downside is that while I have the mockup and the concept work done, it's going to take several more days of development to get this project done.

To go into more boring detail that no one will probably care about besides me: The navbar will allow for editors to maintain payment information for the different writers, auto-update the blogs for those that insist on updating their MySpace blogs, but not their dot-com blogs (you know who you are!), as well as possibly in the future allowing the writers themselves to look at their balances and see how much money they have coming to them.

These things will take a while to develop, but as soon as they are done (and I really am predicting a matter of days here, not weeks), things are going to start looking up for the network aesthetically.

On the finance side of things, several of our writers were just accepted to the tier two PR placement program, so we'll start seeing a lot more money going out to writers... and Wendy will be likely be doing a lot more typing!

All of these are good signs, because it means the network is finally making enough money for me to focus on developing it full-time. I was worried for a while that it would continue a sort of back-burner status for a few more months, what with me having to focus on paying gigs all the time. But patience of the current writers has won out, and we've got something we can actually work with here. We've started to tear through the threshhold of obscurity into something that will be noticed very shortly.

Additionally, I'd like to mention that I appreciate every writer's continued work through these lean times, and I especially want to send out some major kudos to Wendy, who has labored very long for not a lot on the promise that this is going to go somewhere. Everyone send a note of thanks to your tireless assistant editor. She deserves it.

/rizzn

Finkel-Mart

News from the Finkel-Front (a conversation I had with Michael Finkelstein this afternoon):

Unclespam21: i mean he is already working like crazy
RznDoUrdn: i hear he's doing well with that.
Unclespam21: ya
Unclespam21: lol
Unclespam21: now he is sueing wallmart
RznDoUrdn: haha
RznDoUrdn: what for?
Unclespam21: he triped over some machine that wasnt supposed to be in the store or soemthing
RznDoUrdn: lol
Unclespam21: i havent been able to talk to him
RznDoUrdn: he's ok, right?
Unclespam21: but im preaty sure it will be called finkle mart soon
Unclespam21: ya
RznDoUrdn: HAHA
RznDoUrdn: awesome
Unclespam21: liek aparantly blood from his head
Unclespam21: but nothing deadly
Unclespam21: or un-healable

Another Short Wedding Related Note

Just a quick note to say that if you subscribe to my RSS feed, you can look for my Wedding Photos in there via my Flickr Feed.

And expect more wedding gushiness for a while. I'm lovin' it.

/rizzn