Vidize Blog

Murdoch’s empire is under pressure more than ever. His attempt to start clean by closing News of the World, the 100+ year old newspaper doesn’t seem to appease angry lawmakers.
Britain’s deputy prime minister urged Rupert Murdoch Thursday to face questioning by lawmakers over the phone hacking scandal, as pressure grew on his media empire in [...]

12.36pm: The press conference to hand over the Swiss banking data – containing the offshore account details of 2,000 prominent people and companies – is now over, but here is a summary of some of Assange’s later answers.
Latest update on the latest from Wikileaks on the issue of 2000 Swiss bank accounts of wealthy individuals [...]

An interesting article appears on BBC – End of the news romantics.

Says Andrew Marr:
I am on the edge of replacing paper newspapers with electronic versions for my iPad and phone; of accepting that I hardly ever wait for a conventional news bulletin; and of actually reading full-length books, with pleasure, as downloads.

It looks like misheard lyrics are bigger on Gootube than all the shows combined (like Ask a Ninja). Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the humor – especially when it comes at the expense of Scandinavian metal bands!

Russia remains in the spotlight as one of the most dangerous places for journalists.
Anastasiya Baburova (only 25) was shot on January 19 – minutes after a press conference at the Independent Press Center. She was walking towards the Metro station with a laywer, Stanislav Markelov.
Baburova apparently tried to stop the killer, who [...]

If you’ve never seen the Argument Clinic sketch, brace yourself. Monty Python have decided to wage war on low-quality versions of their sketches and they are creating a whole new channel with high-quality versions!

Yes, the original song title is “Radio killed the radio star”. Without going into a deep philosophical discussion, here’s the video.
It’s certainly ironic that MTV launches their music video site sooo late. Anyway, enjoy the song.

Nicolas Kayser-Bril has done a review of the Vidize beta (in French).
You can read it here although if French isn’t your first language, you can read a loose translation from Google.

Adobe has scheduled the beta test of the new Flash player 10 (codename Astro) for today.
There doesn’t seem to be any substantial improvements in the video department but here’s the feature list:
3D Effects – Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while retaining full interactivity. Fast, lightweight, and native 3D Flash [...]

I just stumbled upon an article marking the 75th anniversary of the BBC. About one third of it is based on Jeffrey Sachs’ Reith Lectures.
Here’s a few important points:
A terrorist shot in Sarajevo provided the pretext for German aggression which started World War I. 9/11 was used by the Bush Administration to launch the Iraq [...]