You can read Frank Strovel’s post on the incident here. If you haven’t been keeping up, he was actually contacted by the AP and told to take videos they’d uploaded to YouTube off his site. Personally, I’d like to see what they’d have done if he’d left the videos up.
More On The AP And YouTube Videos
Christian Grantham has more on this, including a video interview with Frank Strovel about the cease and desist he received from the AP. This is just ridiculous.
Associated Press Fires Off Cease And Desist Letter
And here is the kicker, the newswire told an AP affiliate not to use its videos on it’s YouTube subscription channel, which have an embed code. The saga started yesterday when Frank Strovel of WTNQ-FM 104.9 in Lafollete, Tennessee was sent a cease and desist letter from the Associated Press regarding the embedded videos on [...]
How News Organizations Can Get My Money
Alternate title:Yet Another Solution to Newspapers’ Problems Media moguls, feel free to take this idea and run with it–I have neither the capital nor the initiative to implement it. Media pundits, feel free to bash this idea. I haven’t seen an idea out there yet that someone hasn’t hated. So the basic idea is pretty [...]
This Is Your Blog, Do Do What You Want To
Copyblogger’s post this morning is a good one. Steve Errey writes: At some point somebody’s going to have something to say about something you’ve written, and you might not like it. Your first reaction could be any one of these: “Why is everyone smarter than me?” or “That’s it, I’m quitting,” or even… “I’m gonna [...]
Astro_Mike Tweets From Space
It’s true. Call him @Astro_Mike. That’s the latest digital moniker of NASA astronaut Michael Massimino, who has invited the world to tag along via the Twitter micro-blogging Web site as he trains for a May space shuttle mission to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope. Massimino, a veteran spacewalker and Hubble repairman, is set to make [...]
Have You Established Your Audience?
Jay Deragon asks the question. Everyone is either chasing, participating in or gathering an audience. Having an audience fulfills many different purposes. Whether two or three people or millions, unless your a monk your engaging with audiences everyday. Historically media has chased audiences to attract them to propositions aimed at gaining or creating economic traction. [...]
Business Cards Joining Dead Dinosaurs?
Jack Lail has the scoop. Here’s hoping newspapers don’t go away before business cards. And no, I don’t believe newspapers are killing polar bears to any greater degree than text messages, either. But business cards, that’s another question. He has a poll up asking the question if business cards are old school. I haven’t really [...]
40th Anniversary of R.F.C.
We be celebrating. Today is a geek anniversary extravaganza. TODAY is an important date in the history of the Internet: the 40th anniversary of what is known as the Request for Comments. Outside the technical community, not many people know about the R.F.C.’s, but these humble documents shape the Internet’s inner workings and have played [...]
Mixed Reviews For Redesigned FriendFeed
Some folks like it, while others don’t. C-Net explains: From what it looks like, the fresh, real-time streaming redesign of social aggregator FriendFeed is getting some accolades from already-avid users–but might not sway the masses. Among existing FriendFeed loyalists, it doesn’t look like there’s much dissent about the redesign, which is currently available as a [...]