Here’s a quickie for tonight. Rather than rewrite it, as it has appeared on my Tumblr, here’s a brief summary. YouTube loves Tanya Roberts. No matter what you search for, it will often give you a result about Tanya Roberts and her husband dying. It has been giving us this result for weeks. […]
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Raw footage from Christchurch
It feels more raw when it’s been shot by a regular Joe and uploaded to YouTube: some first-hand footage from the earthquake in Christchurch today. I am, in spirit, with all people in Christchurch in the wake of this tragedy. You may also like A year of random thoughts: 2014 in review History of the […]
There’s got to be a morning after Quora
This blog post was originally published at Social Media NZ. Michael Moore-Jones has written a post in response here. I read with interest Michael Moore-Jones’s review of Quora. He is very enthusiastic about the new website, and with some good reasons. I’m still in the “wait and see” camp. I joined, part of that […]
YouTube loses a bit more of my info
I was glad that Larry Page has now taken the reins at Google again. Maybe we can bring back a bit of the pioneering spirit rather than the MBA-heavy, establishment-thinking, netizen-offending, privacy-breaching culture of recent years. If there’s one thing that’s helped raise Google’s stock in my mind, it’s this appointment. Meanwhile, it doesn’t […]
One danger of linking your YouTube and Google accounts?
A hypothetical situation here, between two Gmail users (I don’t use Gmail, so you know this is hypothetical). User 1 is in to some sick stuff and has been watching it on YouTube, using an alias for his YouTube account name. However, his account is linked to his Google account. User 2 is […]
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Users upset over YouTube–Google linking, and is Google showing greater bias in results?
I found out a day after many netizens: Google is now forcing all YouTube account holders to merge their accounts with their Google ones. As part of my de-Googling, I won’t be following suit. Instead, I plan to stay logged out of YouTube: it makes very little difference to me. So I won’t […]
Is your favourite 1980s’ celeb here?
From the ‘Whatever happened to …’ and the ‘My God, is (s)he still alive?’ files comes this promotional video for the (Norwegian) TV2 show Gylne Tider, with a bunch of celebrities lip-synching ‘Let It Be’ (including, appropriately, Fab Morvan of Milli Vanilli). Sir Roger Moore kicks it off, but right after, you’ll catch (inter […]