Hey in the great tradition of my readers helping me make everything I do better, I thought I'd let you know ahead of time that I'm working on a lecture for this Thursday and I would really love some input from Facebook users about what they feel is most important to them about it.

Or, if you're a Facebook user that isn't particularly impressed, that's important too.

I'm going to focus on my own experiences in the lecture, but it's always nice to counter them with input from others - especially when others may feel very differently than I do about something. I like to let the students know about as many sides of everything as I can about the topics that I discuss. (Especially if I feel really strongly about something, but everyone disagrees with me. I still get to say my piece cause it's my lecture :) but then, more than ever, I need to make it clear to the students that, well, everyone else disagrees with me...

well you get the picture.... long story short: chime in! :-) send me email...or friend me on facebook and send data that way :-)

So I mentioned earlier that my new job is being the person the XML Geek in charge of Content Partnerships for Mary Hodder's new: Dabble.

We just launched the Dabble Blog yesterday, and there's some interesting stuff over there about the user generated video market, among other goodies.

Danah was on Oreilly Factor and Bill actually wasn't a complete dick. Go figure :-)

Wow. They call her a cultural anthropologist. Looks pretty cool on the screen. That's fer sure.

Nice job Danah.

(Hey I wanna be a cultural anthropologist! Maybe I can call myself that when I finish my masters...)
Update! Hey I'm not trying to be a smartass! I'm just jealous :-)
Sure, Danah looks like an ordinary anthropologist in this clip. But the few times I've met her, not long ago, she always had an extra sparkley dress or stripey pants or a huge floppy hat or something far from ordinary. It's like she's gone undercover.

Hi gang,

So I'm pulling together as many resources as I can on Music Distribution (traditional) and Digital Distribution (itunes, napster, bittorrent, free mp3s etc.).

Please email me at lisa@lisarein.com with any you can recommend.

I'm looking for background stuff as well as current/recent articles on trends.

more on this soon!

lisa

For those of you who are interested in such things...

Here's a link to a prototype of a
Wide Hive Media Player
(Thanks Nacho!)

So far, I was just planning on making all of our samples available via the media player, so that cover art and purchase info could be displayed while the songs played. We're also going to make it so you can just start at one song and have the player keep going through our entire sample library.

Love to hear your other suggestions for this.

thanks,

lisa

I was interviewed by BBC's Maggie Shiels in April 2003 about being a peace blogger, amidst all of the "War Bloggers." She had no way of telling me at the time when the piece was going to air, but she did give me a clip that I could play for my parents -- but I couldn't publish it on my blog or anything.

Well, now that so much time has passed, I wrote to see if it was OK, and she said it was.

Here it is. (Real File)

(Here's a link to its directory if you need that for some reason.)

Also interviewed are UC Berkeley School of Journalism Professor Paul Grabowitz and blogger Chris Perillo. (Will somebody let them know about this for me? I don't have their emails.)

That's me reading from Salam Pax's weblog too.

The story is about bloggers taking over as reliable sources of news.

The other project that's taking a lot of my time lately (besides all the cool stuff I've been working on at Wide Hive) is my Masters Thesis for SFSU's BECA Department:
A Guide To Online Music Distribution.

So if you know of a good service, assume I know nothing about it, and send me the scoop!

If you are personally affiliated with a particular system, so much the better. (Then I can get the inside scoop:) I won't get mad at you for trying to sell me something. I'm starting from scratch here, and I really want to create a comprehensive directory.

Let me know what systems you don't like too. That's just as helpful.

In a few months, I'll need a group of testers to implement my tutorials on the subject. Now would be a good time to sign up for that too, if you're interested.

Thanks in advance for all the great leads and info guys. You're the best.

lisa

Fox Nearly Sued Itself Over 'Simpsons' Parody
By Agence France Presse.

Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel threatened to sue the makers of "The Simpsons" over a parody of the channel's right-wing political stance, the creator of the hit US television show has claimed.

In an interview this week with National Public Radio, Matt Groening recalled how the news channel had considered legal action, despite the fact that "The Simpsons" is broadcast on sister network, Fox Entertainment.

According to Groening, Fox took exception took a Simpsons' version of the Fox News rolling news ticker which parodied the channel's anti-Democrat stance, with headlines like "Do Democrats Cause Cancer?"

"Fox fought against it and said they would sue the show," Groening said.

"We called their bluff because we didn't think Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself. So, we got away with it."

Other satirical Fox news bulletins featured in the show included: "Study: 92 per cent of Democrats are gay... JFK posthumously joins Republican Party... Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple..."

While the lawsuit never materialized, Groening said some action was taken.

"Now Fox has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it's real news," he said.

"The Simpsons," featuring the dysfunctional family of patriarch Homer Simpson and his rowdy brood, is now in its 14th year and is expected to become the longest-running situation comedy in US history in 2005.

Here is the full text of the translated article in case the link goes bad:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/110103J.shtml

Fox Nearly Sued Itself Over 'Simpsons' Parody
Agence France Presse

Wednesday 29 October 2003

NEW YORK (AFP) - Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel threatened to sue the makers of "The Simpsons" over a parody of the channel's right-wing political stance, the creator of the hit US television show has claimed.

In an interview this week with National Public Radio, Matt Groening recalled how the news channel had considered legal action, despite the fact that "The Simpsons" is broadcast on sister network, Fox Entertainment.

According to Groening, Fox took exception took a Simpsons' version of the Fox News rolling news ticker which parodied the channel's anti-Democrat stance, with headlines like "Do Democrats Cause Cancer?"

"Fox fought against it and said they would sue the show," Groening said.

"We called their bluff because we didn't think Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself. So, we got away with it."

Other satirical Fox news bulletins featured in the show included: "Study: 92 per cent of Democrats are gay... JFK posthumously joins Republican Party... Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple..."

While the lawsuit never materialized, Groening said some action was taken.

"Now Fox has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it's real news," he said.

"The Simpsons," featuring the dysfunctional family of patriarch Homer Simpson and his rowdy brood, is now in its 14th year and is expected to become the longest-running situation comedy in US history in 2005.

A fellow grad student buddy of mine, Whitney, has asked me to ask my international readers to participate in one of her assignments for her International Broadcasting class.

She needs you to cut and paste this questionnaire into an email, enter in your answers, and email it back to her at : Whitneykennett@aol.com. .

Thanks in advance to those of you choose to participate!

Hello!

My name is Whitney Kennett and I am conducting an interview for a class
project in the BECA program at San Francisco State University about reactions and
comments on War coverage among students from other part of the world.

Please be assured that your answers will be kept confidential with no
name recorded.

First, a few basic questions:

Which country are you from?_________

Please select you age group:
a. under 18 b. 18-25 c. 26-30 d. 30-40
e. 40+

1.What's your major source of news?

Radio

TV

NP

Internet

Other

2.How often do you watch news?

Everyday

6 times a week

3 times

none

3.The news coverage during the war by US is authoritative

Strongly agree

Agree

B=neutral

Disagree

Strongly disagree

4.Do you think mainstream western media shape the public opinion during

this war

yes

no

neutral

no opinion

Why?

5.Which of the following media, do you think did a better job in

providing reliable war coverage?

CNN

BBC

Network of your country

Other

6. Do you recall seeing Iraqi war coverage in television and in newspapers
(abroad only)? ( If yes please continue)

7. Do you recall seeing the take down of the Saddam Hussein Statue in the
center of Baghdad?

8. What reactions did this bring about for you?

9. Do you recall the American soldiers putting up a US flag after the
falling of the statue?

10.How did this make you view America and Americans?

11. Overall, what perspectives did you gain on American from the war coverage?

12. Please add any other thoughts.

This is from the August 6, 2003 program.

Daily Show On Media Covering Itself Covering Kobe's Case (Small - 2 MB)

The Daily Show (The best news on television.)

Here's an interview with NBC News Anchor Brian Williams - The guy in line to replace Tom Brokaw on the NBC Nightly News after the 2004 Presidential Election Coverage.

Brian and Jon have a pretty interesting discussion about journalists and whether or not they "should" let people know about their own biases.

Brian says that he is a registered Independent and claims that he doesn't even tell his kids or his wife how he votes so that they all have plausible deniability when they say they don't know how he votes. He claims the Washington Post tells their reporters not to vote. I'm not sure how he knows this or how this could be verified, but I certainly wouldn't work for a paper who told me not to vote, and I kind of doubt many of the journalists I read in the Washington Post would either. So I'm not really sure what he actually meant by all of that.

Anyway it's an interesting interview.

Brian Williams On The Daily Show (Small - 15 MB)

The Daily Show (The best news on television.)

Here's a message from my friend Judith Holm:

JERRY SPRINGER VIEWERS NEEDED FOR RESEARCH

I am working with a professor at San Francisco State University on a research project on reality television. For now we need to find TV viewers who watch The Jerry Springer (TV) Show. Regular and occasional viewers are welcome. If you are (or if you know) a Springer viewer, PLEASE HELP by responding to or forwarding this. We will ask you to complete a short survey with just 10 questions.

As thanks for your participation we will send you a report of of findings.

If you have questions please contact me:

Judith Holm, judithaholm@earthlink.net

Some people were having trouble downloading the uncompressed AIFF files, so I've saved them with a .aif extension in a different directory:

Did CNN Modify Its Re-broadcast of Michael Moore's Uppity Oscar Acceptance Speech?.

This is, of course, in reference to this earlier post (Did CNN Turn Up The Boos On Michael Moore?), which, by the way, has a wonderful discussion going on currently about the various technical explanations that could explain the discrepancies between the broadcasts.

Thanks to Tristan for creating these waveform comparisons of the original ABC feed and the CNN rebroadcast. Thanks so much for putting this up!

Some data extracted from Michael Moore's speech, as transmitted on CNN and ABC

Some data extracted from Michael Moore's speech, as transmitted on CNN and ABC

The audio files were downloaded from http://www.lisarein.com/michaelmoore/michaelmoorecompare.html. I cropped the most controversial 'booh' part in the two versions, when he says tells "...that elected a ficticious president.... we...".
I compiled a stereo file with each version on each channel, submitted it to common analysis tools in a sound-editing program, and ended up with this (click on the images for a high resolution version)...

In the audio version, the stereo file with each version on each channel, you can clearly spot the difference between the two speeches. I let you hear where the booooohs come from. FYI, CNN's channel is on the left.

The conclusion

is as always up to you

Here is the full text of the page in case the link goes bad:

http://asyo.com/michaelmooresspeech/

Some data extracted from Michael Moore's speech, as transmitted on CNN and ABC

The audio files were downloaded from http://www.lisarein.com/michaelmoore/michaelmoorecompare.html. I cropped the most controversial 'booh' part in the two versions, when he says tells "...that elected a ficticious president.... we...".
I compiled a stereo file with each version on each channel, submitted it to common analysis tools in a sound-editing program, and ended up with this (click on the images for a high resolution version) :
Spectrum:

moore's speech ABC retransmission

Notice the strength of the horizontal curve of the (enthusiastic?) whoo.

moore's speech CNN retransmission

Notice the strength of the boo's (red lines), and how the whoo now swims in the background... The noise coming from the public is strangely louder under the two "booooo's"
Waveform:

moore's speech waveform, both channels

CNN's signal is blue, ABC's is red, the overlapping zone is dark.
Sound:

In the audio version, the stereo file with each version on each channel, you can clearly spot the difference between the two speeches. I let you hear where the booooohs come from. FYI, CNN's channel is on the left.
The conclusion

is as always up to you

Something to keep you busy over the weekend!

Check out the video and audio from the live ABC broadcast and compare it for yourself to the video and audio of the CNN re-broadcast:

Did CNN Turn Up The Boos During Michael Moore's Speech?
Michael Moore At The Oscars: ABC's Live Audio vs. CNN's Re-broadcast

This is a quote from my introduction:

...I decided to help Ellison Horne out by digitizing and posting his video footage on the internet so the debate over this issue could begin, and so we could all look over the evidence together in order to determine whether or not the audio track was altered in the CNN rebroadcast...

This is a quote from Ellison's introduction:

I'm urgently calling for an investigation of the broadcast by CNN and CNN Headline News's reporting of Michael Moore's acceptance speech last month at the Academy Awards.

CNN and CNN Headline News aired a significantly different audio response to Mr. Moore's speech than was orginally broadcasted on ABC.

It seems that someone has manipulated the audio to give the impression there was constant loud "booing" throughout Moore's speech, when in reality, there was only marginal booing often overridden with cheers and applause.

This needs to be fully investigated.

I've gotten emails from a few interested parties...Thanks guys!
-- but, honestly, I don't have anywhere near enough people yet.

I could go look for somewhere else to get a group of people, but I would much rather conduct this research with my readers, if possible.

I really need to guys to help me out with this. It's going to be a fun thing, not a painful one, I promise.

I wish I could tell you more about it without poisoning my sample pool :-)

This is for a graduate "Seminar in Media and Society" class I'm taking at San Francisco State this semester.

Please email me at "lisarein@finetuning.com" if you're interested.

Put "Media Survey" in the subject line so I'll see your email quickly!

Thanks!

I'm going to need as many people as I can get to participate in an online survey about how people interact with their TiVO's.

Should you decide to participate, you'd be answering a page or two of questions online and perhaps a few follow-up questions afterwards via email.

This is for a graduate "Seminar in Media and Society" class I'm taking at San Francisco State this semester.

Please email me at "lisarein@finetuning.com" if you're interested.

(Oh yeah -- please be interested :-)

Put "Media Survey" in the subject line so I'll see your email quickly!

Thanks!