links for 2007-10-18
October 18th, 2007 | by Tama |-
“Fully 32% of online teens have been contacted by someone with no connection to them or any of their friends, and 7% of online teens say they have felt scared or uncomfortable as a result of contact by an online stranger.”
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Facebook “announced today that it will strengthen warnings about child safety on its site and said that it would take steps to improve its process of responding to complaints about sexual or inappropriate content.”
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“Video site YouTube is launching filtering tools to clamp down on the sharing of video without permission.” It took them a while - I wonder where the kids will go next as YouTube becomes uncool?
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The concept is simple yet brilliant: a countdown from 100 to one using only snippets of movie dialogue. Stop what you’re doing and watch this now. the clip:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExqG6LdWHU
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The Australian Greens invite LOL Cats parodies of other Australian politicians with some fairly amusing results.
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Sam Ford wonders how YouTube’s copyright protection software will impact on fair use/fair dealing and the ability to ‘quote’ in media clips. At first glance, it doesn’t appear the YouTube copyright protection software will be able to tell the difference!
