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National Film Board on the Missing Canadian Digitization Strategy -
Michael Geist
“In its submission to the CRTC New Media consultation, the National Film Board of Canada warns:
Canada today finds itself years behind other countries in developing a clearly focused and effective digitization strategy. The United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and China have already established digitization strategies that feature robust programs and ambitious plans. An effective digitization strategy yields significant domestic benefits such as wider access to knowledge for the creative industry and all communities, a greater appreciation of national cultural heritage, and the facilitation of lifelong learning. A digitization plan could also lead to a cultural export strategy.
While I don’t think the CRTC is the right venue for this, the continued sluggish development of a strategy by Library and Archives Canada and the utter missing-in-action approach from the government (Canadian Heritage seems more committed to locking up content in C-61 than in making it available) merits far greater attention.”
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I’m Sorry, I Don’t Know, I Can’t … -
ThinkSimpleNow dot com
“I find myself blurting out I don’t know as an instant answer to questions I don’t have immediate answers for. Lately, I’ve been noting how these simple words made me feel, and I’m starting to take notice that on some level, these casual words are effecting my emotions and self-esteem.
Saying I don’t know, I’m sorry, I can’t and “I don’t want to but have to” are slowly changing my mindset. Through my observations, I’ve noticed how common it is to use these popular phrases without giving them a second thought.
Do you find yourself saying the words I’m sorry or I don’t know often? Did you know that this over-sighted language pattern is actually limiting our potential to happiness and ultimately getting what we want?
Let’s have a closer look at each one and notice their effect in our internal mental space…”
Pete Townshend Muses on Rock Honors, Smashing Computers, Eddie Vedder in E-Mail to Rolling Stone -
Rolling Stone/ Rock and Roll Daily
“After taping VH1 Honors: The Who, Pete Townshend e-mailed Rolling Stone’s Jenny Eliscu with a post-mortem discussing his own performance, his desire to smash plastic Rock Band instruments and the advice he gave Eddie Vedder a few years ago. Here’s the message:
Despite my smiley face, I was on guard on the red carpet and didn’t say much although the New York Times guy caught me off guard with the best question of my life, delivered almost dead-pan: “WHY DON’T YOU JUST DO WHAT ROGER WANTS?” For a split second I tried to answer…”
Fair Copyright for Canada: The Friendfeed -
Michael Geist
“As the amount of online activity related to fair copyright in Canada grows, it is becoming increasingly difficulty to track everything. With that in mind, I’ve created a new Friendfeed channel for Fair Copyright for Canada. The channel currently includes aggregated blog postings, videos from YouTube, photos from Flickr, the Google Fair Copyright for Canada calendar, and bookmarks to relevant media coverage on Delicious. There are also two active search services that will gather blog postings and YouTube videos tagged FairCopyright4Canada. If you want your posting included in the feed, simply add the tag.
If this sounds useful, you can subscribe to the rss feed, bookmark the page, embed the feed on your blog, or become a member of Friendfeed and track it…”
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Google To Start Indexing Audio Files as Text? -
Search Engine Roundtable
“WebmasterWorld administrator, Tedster, started a thread at WebmasterWorld suggesting that Google may begin indexing audio files in the near future. Tedster linked to the recent news on Google announcing that they are “automatically” transcribing YouTube videos “from speech to text” and then indexing that content in a searchable format.
Many operating systems have speech to text technology. They make software that tries to transcribe your voice as you speak to it. They make technology, OCR, that reads text as an image and translates it to machine readable text. None of this technology is perfect, or even close to it. Google has dabbled in all of this in the past and I am sure they continue to experiment with this now and in the future…”