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FriendFeed Users?

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:14:45 -0700

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Anybody out there in Siftland use FriendFeed?

Its a service that lets you keep track of all your sharing. For example My Feed is set to update whenever I post to Videosift, Twitter, Google Reader, Digg, Reddit, stumbleupon, youtube and other social websites, as well as your own personal blogs

To make it work with VideoSift you click on services then "Blog" (RSS Icon) and load in your Sift Feed, for example mine is. http://fedquip.videosift.com/member/Fedquip/published

Its a pretty handy service, especially considering you can also track your friends activity. And its compatible with Twhirl. http://www.twhirl.org/

So if you use multiple services and connect with multiple people over thsoe multiple services, its a great tool to use.

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The Day The Daily Show Changed

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:48:23 -0700

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TDTUC obvioulsy doesn't interest that many people (cept for fellow fan Jwray), but the project was huge and each episode took about 4 hours+ to craft, it was a mighty task and well worth the reward of a job well done from Mr Burke himself, no less. Again all done in my spare time, fueled by a passion for research and archiving.

But more its just always followed my online video philosophy; when you share something, breath something new into it.

That Documentary series has evolved thanks to the Internet. Thanks to whomever uploaded it to YouTube the clips have been available to the world for year now, thanks to me each episode is now transcribed with links to every topic mentioned in the series, and thanks to mahalo eventually every topic will be full of the best information on each topic available on the web. Therefor....in 2008 any newb watching James Burke for the first time will have a more full experience then those who watched back those who watched back in 1985.

It was a primer, for my latest project, using the exact same format as done with TDTUC, I have started to do the same work for The Daily Show. Here is the March 6 2003 Episode displayed on Mahalo. Time considering, I hope to build more of these pages.

Please, let me know what you think of this. Do you think watching info television in this manner enhances your viewing experience? The episode is clipped up into parts, beneath are internal links to each subject brought up in the clip, the episode is summed up by citing the news references with external links. And of course embeds...wonderful wonderful embeds.

Check it out

http://www.mahalo.com/The_Daily_Show_March_6_2003

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The Day the Universe Changed

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:25:48 -0700

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The last couple of weeks I've been working on the creating pages dedicated to James Burke and his amazing "The Day The Universe Changed" documentary series.

What I've done is created individual pages for each of episode and added guide notes for each episode, if you click on any of the episodes you'll be able to not only watch the episode but have access to additional information to every name and event mentioned within that episode. If you are anything like me, you'll find it fascinating; James Burke mentions the most important events in Western History.

Each episode links to about 50+ different pages, many of which are incomplete. So If you wish to help and are unsure how, just let me know and I will be more the happy to walk you through it. I'm not much of a promoter, but this project means a lot to me in the form that its literally everything I've ever wanted to do with the web... thats to create a second life, an interactive life, to television programming, there are no commercials or advertisments here, just links to more information... Just like Burke would have wanted it.

(James Burke emailed my btw, and said these pages were "masterly", probably one of my most proudest accomplishments I've had online)

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The white woman voting for Barack

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:48:48 -0700

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I'm starting to feel sick keeping track of this American Election...the Clintons are probably banking on fatigue and apathy at this point...But, Barack is still in it and Colbert had a white woman supporter on last night. Claire McCaskill

In regards to the GI Bill, I think Barack says it best.
“There are many issues that lend themselves to partisan posturing, but giving our veterans the chance to go to college should not be one of them.”
http://www.washingtonhotlist.com/quote-of-the-day-49/

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McCain Orchestrating a troll Campaign

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:22:09 -0700

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I know John McCain is old, and probably got this idea from some right wing freeper nut. But what do you think of him using his online support to go into liberal communities and earn "points" by trolling comment sections.

JohnMcCain.com

Select from the numerous web, blog and news sites listed here, go there, and make your opinions supporting John McCain known. Once you’ve commented on a post, video or news story, report the details of your comment by clicking the button below. After your comments are verified, you will be awarded points through the McCain Online Action Center.

God Speed QM, you can take this competition, do the sift proud
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A way to honour Younger Sifters

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:27:04 -0700

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Everyday we see the same Top 15 Sifters in the sidebar...It's a great honour to be listed there amoung such talented video shareres, I am sure everybody is familiar with these sifters due to their participation and the fact that they are listed in the sidebar all day.

I think a great way to get more usernames on the out there would be to add a 2nd list consisting of the top 15 sifters of the week, it would most likely rotate more and be more interesting to watch, as the names will change more frequently. Also help introduce us to lesser known hard working sifters.

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Me again...talking about research again...

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:10:13 -0700

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After seeing a Mahalo plug on videosift that didn't come from me it made me feel a little inspired to write a little bit more about Mahalo.

Mahalo is a website that is the anti-spam, the project is to retrieve from the web the best content in regards to any and every subject. Here is the most recent speech from Calacanis, the Mahalo boss.

Now, he's attracted a pretty large workfoce who work on topics that range from video games to celebrity gossip, but my interestes are focused in the much needed research division. Here is a page I am pretty proud of, in regards to the most recent Political scandal that involved the Mainstream Media and the Message force multipliers.

I am happy to see lots of sifters have signed up, and with some time and patience I am sure we'll find a way to make research enjoyable. For those who have signed up, start befriending each other so we can find our niche within what is gearing up to being a massive online research project.

Signed up Sifters: DotDude,, Kulpims , Myfifteenminutes , SpecialK , Mink

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Region Blocking and Why the Sift is Important

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:59:51 -0700

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So by now you guys should all know that I am no longer wasting my days looking for videos...that is why for the first time in two years I actually have room in my queue (Personal queue is pretty full though Yes, a sifting addiction can be treated for those in the community concerned that they themselves are becoming addicted.

Some of us spend money to enjoy our moving picture experience here within the walls of this community. It's interesting how we have watched as other social platforms got massive corporate donations. We are lucky we had Lucky to slug out 3.0, it is a beautiful work of code. If you have been on the sift since 2006 then I am sure you have witnessed the future of media and the future of the internet unfold before you. As we have scrounged the youtubes and blogs for Sift fuel, the outside world was moving. I like it here, every Internetter since the dawn of the Internet has become social within communties big and small.. And although I work full time within some of the heavyily funded giants, I love this community here because we come from all over the globe and we all have different video tastes. As a clip hunter I appreciate the tools we have here to sort online video too.

Online video is changing, most of us should have known that back when TayTV broke the "YouTube was bought by Google story" eons ago. Oh..and so did the Sift. <---- This link offers great research by the way of lots of archived coverage of that 2006 event. Dag linked to a Great Mark Cuban blog post, with a hint of Irony when you hit play on the embed.

The Sift is at Risk! - as Krono pointed out in this Sift Talk a month ago, Regional Blocking is becoming widespread and I fear for the Sift. Our great community is home to many Canadians and for some reason, and America is building a wall, it just happens to not be in Mexico but within the mega video Social Networks of the Internet.

I first encountered Regional Blocking after experiencing for the joy of having access to a real life version of a TV archive that I thought would be available in heavan, The Daily Show archive. I was pretty upset, at one point I was so delusional I drafted up plans to incite a Colbert Boycott! Me? I have been the hugest Colbert Fan even before he stuck the Banana in his mouth.

(btw Canadians...the video above is region blocked)

So that historical footage is locked away unless I hack a proxy or something like that. Either way its Something my grandma will never figure out, and she loves the way I describe this clip, a clip, a 91 year old Canadian, wife of a WWII vet, will never experience...What is it with old ladies and the Royal Family? Why is it America is suddenly so afraid with Canadians watching their video content. We get the Buffalo News in Ontario and the Seattle News here in BC. And yes, between 1999 and 2005 you could watch the Simpsons syndicated during every hours of the day with just a regular cable hookup, half the idiot box is American.

This is why Videosift is vitally important, we have an archive of almost every great clip from youtube that saw the light of the internet before the great Google purchase of 2006. If they have been removed from the net we can anticipate their return from a the deep end of the dead pool. I for one hope that once the dust settles its only sane, friendly corporations that survive. Because this new trend seems like a step backwards to where we were a year ago. Isn't it called the World Wide Web.

Region Blocking sucks, Tear down this wall.

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Hendrix Clinton Experience

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:43:01 -0700

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As a Canadian I am all wrapped up in this American election coverage. The negative ads piss me off and blog my mind, In Canada we have attack ads, but in the States negative campaigning appears to take center stage and is gobbled up by the media. CNN sometimes even uses blood graphics to illustrate the "blood bath." The media loves a good fight.

I like the Barack fellow, so I was pretty pissed when Hillary started playing the fear card against him. I think she has to use fear if she wants to win. However, I believe the majority of the American people are smarter then to fall for her tricks, which is why I love catching mashups like this. Spread this one Barack supporters.

*edit Just read this in Newsweek, kinda related, beats writing a new post, since it's kinda related. The Media has hinted that this democratic election is again going to be decided with a court case in Florida. Here are Hillary's reasons for fighting a legal battle.

NW: You ' ve been advocating seating delegations from Michigan and Florida. But Senator Obama wasn ' t even on the ballot in Michigan. Does making this argument risk alienating voters who think you ' re breaking the rules or changing the rules?
HRC: I don't think so. I mean, he had a choice to be on the ballot. He chose not to be. I chose to stay on the ballot. So that was a choice he made. His campaign then ran a very vigorous effort to try to defeat me with uncommitted delegates, and he lost. So it wasn't as though there wasn't a contest. There was a contest. And I won. And I won resoundingly in Florida … I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

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Sputtr and the Sift

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:55:10 -0700

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You can now search for the Sift using Sputtr.

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