The Internet Would Be Perfect.

I have just finished reading this article.

It’s about some video posted on GoogleItaly. The video featured a person with down syndrome, being bullied – of course this is a horrible thing.
Everyone will agree with that. However, the ‘people’ want to know how a video containing such in-humane acts was allowed to be published online.

Google is basically being sued for allowing this to happen. They are being accused of not filtering content correctly and not responding to complaints in a quick manner.

The thing is….you have to look at this from the big picture. GoogleVideo has, I don’t know around 40million videos on it? ‘Active filtering’ would take a 1000 years, and you’d need hundreds of staff to monitor the videos. It’s completely unworkable.

So what if say…100 complaints = the video to be blocked until reviewed? This could work…but its open to abuse if not properly worked out. Maybe ‘flagging’ is only open to registered and authenticated users? Who knows.

However, if Google is found guilty and all videos in Italy become ‘pre-approved only’ then social videos will be completley lost. They might as well watch TV. Its just another thing leading towards the Internet being regulated – which I never want to see.

If it wasn’t for the minor few posting videos etc like this online then the Internet would be perfect. Alas, it’s not.

Filed under: Annoyances, Information, Internet, Media, Politics, Thoughts, Video

Family Guy Looks Good In HD.

Yesterday was a pretty good day.

Gemma, Andy and myself travelled down to Nottingham to meet (once again) Maria Lindley – one of our documentary contributors. We were there mainly to get the sequence we tried to get last time, but didn’t.

Anyway, we got all of our intended shots, which was good.

On the way back from Nottingham I stopped off at IKEA (the one in Leeds not Nottingham) to get some pear cider. Alas, they were out of stock but at least I got to see Miss Sam Holland, Miss Leona Wilson and Miss Laura Newey (in that order), oh and Stuart too .

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On Monday our house was blessed with a new TV. Its a High Def one so its pretty good. We had to get a new one as the tube went in the old one. I even purchased a HDMI DVD player which up-scales normal DVD’s to HD, pretty good. Family Guy looks good in HD.

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Gordon Brown announces the budget today. I wonder if he’ll inject some much needed cash into the NHS?

- Charlie.

Filed under: Driving, Friends, Media, Politics, University, Work

Hmmm….

Why does everyone go on about St Patrick’s Day?

Nobody goes on about St George’s Day, why is that?

Maybe George was into chilling out and staying on the down low, most probably. He probably didn’t ‘feel like dancin’ whereas Patrick did.

IKEA was pretty dead today. Strange.

– Charlie

Filed under: Politics, Work