Eight Year Old Girl Tells It Like It Is

You know you have a good show going when an eight year old girl takes on Bill O'Reilly. I think she does a great job of explaining why people like Bill do more harm than rap music and video games. Would like to put in a personal request that everyone who views her video (below) go to YouTube and vote on the video (links at the bottom). Eight Year Old Girl Tells It Like It Is If anyone knows Bill O'Reilly, beat his stupid ass for me. I really can't stand this *explicative deleted* idiot. Bill O'Reilly Responds If you know this girl's parents and family, tell them they did a great job raising her. They should not be shamed - they should be congratulated for raising a well informed child who has valid (and valued) opinions. YouTube - The Coolest 8 Year Old In The World Talks About O'Reilly

YouTube and PBS Want You to Video Your Vote

Online-video site YouTube and PBS have teamed up to create Video Your Vote, an election day project that asks you to record and submit your experience at the polls on election day. Want to participate? Better make sure polling place photography is legal in your state.

Warioland - Shake It Up

I love how the Wii changes the way games are played. The tilt controllers, nun-chucks, etc really make you interact with the game. I watched a promotional video for Wario Land: Shake It! which really made me want to play it right now! If ever a full-body Wii controller could be used, this is the game to use it on. Wario Land: Shake It Promotional Video on YouTube

Splicd Skips To a Video Point in YouTube

Web site Splicd creates custom links to embedded YouTube videos that start and stop at any time you define, allowing you to skip straight to the good part and avoid the rest. Let's say, for example, you've stumbled onto a gem on YouTube but had to suffer through 10 minutes of complete boredom to get there. You want to share the video with a friend, but you don't want her to have to sit through the whole mess for 20 seconds of pure gold. Just paste the URL of the video into Splicd, give it your desired start and end time, and it generates a custom link that starts and stops the video where you told it to.

YouTube To Ban Terrorist Videos

Recent Article on TechDirt - YouTube Bans Terrorism Videos; Don't You Feel Much Safer?

Back in May we wrote about Senator Joseph Lieberman demanding that YouTube remove a bunch of videos of terrorists. At the time, YouTube reviewed the videos in question, and took down the ones that violated the site's terms of service, but left most of them up, noting that the ones they left up did not promote hate speech nor show violence. As we pointed out at the time, trying to ban terrorists from posting videos to YouTube seems incredibly short-sighted. First, it won't work. Those videos will quickly pop back up on other sites that won't take them down. Second, most of those videos are preaching to the choir. It's unlikely that very many people are being recruited to the terrorists' causes by a grainy video on YouTube. Third, letting terrorists post their videos to a mainstream site like YouTube should help authorities figure out who's posting the videos and where they're coming from. Fourth, and most important, one of the key founding principles of this country is the right to free speech, no matter how much one might disagree with that speech. But, part of that principle is that it allows people to respond. So, yes, the videos may be pure propaganda, but there's no reason that people can't respond to the videos and show why they're propaganda and wrong. Confronting your critics is a reasonable stance. Demanding that they cannot speak is not. Yet, a bunch of folks have been sending in links to a story claiming that Google has now caved to Sen. Lieberman, and will now ban terrorist videos on YouTube. The article says that YouTube's new terms of service will ban footage that "advertises" terrorism or "extremist causes," which seems pretty broad, and certainly open to abuse. The article describes some videos that show how to commit violent acts -- but those were already banned by YouTube, so that's rather misleading. These new terms are more disturbing. It's not going to stop the videos, it's just going to make it harder to keep track of them, harder to counter them -- all while making the terrorists feel more legitimate. Terrorists should be tracked down and stopped -- absolutely. But we should be dealing with the actual problem of terrorists, not some videos they made.