Luca Venturini’s Blog

On google video people can browse the “top 100″ of the most viewed videos, divided by country. In the Italian top 100, the most viewed video is a documentary that was transmitted by BBC in October 2006. The title is “Sex Crimes and Vatican” and is about priest and sexual abuse.

I’m not a lawyer, but the Vatican here says that the sexual assault of priests to minors under 18 years old should be reported to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and that, for these kinds of crimes, there exists what’s known as the pontifical secret. The document is dated May 18, 2001 and signed by Josephus Cardinal Ratzinger.

Ratzinger was named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit: he was accused of conspiring with the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to cover up some abuse in the district court of Harris County, Houston, Texas (in mid ‘90). The Pope is considered a head of state and automatically has diplomatic immunity. (more here, here and here)

Ok, maybe 38 minutes is a lot, but instead of watching TV this evening, let’s surf here.

Here is the BBC page on the documentary.

Photo credit: Franz

Update: The video is now split into four parts: one, two, three, four.

Still events 2.0 waiting the big one: Web 2.0 Expo 2007 that starts Sunday.

Wednesday I went to the Google Campus to attend a Usability 2.0 conference. Today it seems that if you don’t call something “2.0″ , then you are a nerd. There I heard Sean Kane with Netflix, Jon Wiley with Google and Luke Wroblewski with Yahoo. A lot of the guilty came from each part of the Silicon Valley. One asked me if I was coming from Rome just for this event. Politely I said that it would be a little too much. Here are the event photos (a nice one is the sushi on surf).

Thursday night at Crossroad Cafe’ there was the Sflickr meeting: the meeting of the San Francisco’s Flickr users. At a photographer meeting, one should take photos, but I thought that a lot of photos would have to be taken and that a video was more original.

My jacket without sleeves let people think that Iwas a real “pro” photographer, but when they saw my photo machine everything became more amateur.

A web page totally white uses about 74 W in order to be viewed on a computer monitor. A black page uses 59 W. Starting from this assumption, Mark Ontkush has calculated how much will be saved if Google would put a black background on the home page.

Assuming that the results of each query will be shown by a browser for a period of about 10 seconds and knowing that Google serves about 200 milion queries daily, we found that Google is viewed daily for about 500.000 hours all around the world.

The savings would be about 3000 MegaWatt-hours yearly.

If we use the average UK cost of energy in terms of CO2 footprint, then the white Google background is responsible for 1410 tons of CO2 of emissions yearly.

If you prefer to calculate the emissions with different colors, you can check here on the consumption of using a pixel of different colors.

Thanks to Tagliablog for the signalation.