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February 09, 2006
Freedom of disassociation
Freedom of disassociation: Dan Rayburn writes at StreamingMedia.com of how Google Video promotes much content which is at odds with its terms-of-service. It's great that the internet can bring people together, but we need ways to ignore people too -- the "right of free association" implies a right to not associate with anyone you deem undesirable. Google Video apparently was planning on staff review of all content, but that single-source examination doesn't scale, and the ongoing maintainence costs become a target during any budget-cutting cycle. The flagging system at CraigsList helps harvest the collective intelligence -- Slashdot's moderation system doesn't always promote the best comments -- link-analysis such as Memeorandum is always a target for manipulation. It's a tough problem to figure out who to ignore in such a connected world, and we're not quit there yet.....
Posted by John Dowdell at February 9, 2006 07:57 AM
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Speaking of threadjacking...
What does the EP in "JD on EP" stand for? For months it's said "JD on [TBD]" at the top of this blog and the description sentence still says "A news service for people using [cool technology]." So what is EP?
My guess is that it's the newly invented name for the Adobe portfolio of technology. As for what it stands for, my vote is for Everything's Possible.
It'd be a good description of the capabilites Adobe software has. I still remember the first time I got a website down to needing 1 plug-in by replacing QTVR with a Flash approximation. Later we were able to replace traditional video players, and provide custom print layouts. Combine that with Adobe's already great tools for image, video, and document creation and everything's possible. Nice.
Posted by: James A at February 9, 2006 08:50 AM
Continuing the threadjacking...
My guess would be that EP stands for "Engagement Plattform", wich is, as far as I understand, the soon to be released(?) Apollo project.
Posted by: Nisse Bryngfors at February 9, 2006 09:28 AM
Another link analysis, Megite, at http://www.megite.com
Posted by: matt at February 9, 2006 03:08 PM