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“Sex Crimes and Vatican”

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Priests

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.

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HOWTO – Blog subscription

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

Rss Feed

If, in this image, you see only a fountain, then this post is for you.

Blogs contain news that change quickly. How can you follow the contains of a blog? If you browse the blog web site every day just to see if something has changed, you’ll waste a lot of time. It would be beautiful to have a method of being informed only when something on the blog changes. Still better would be to read only the news, always in the same format.

This method exists.

Some programs called aggregators, or news feed readers, enable you to follow blogs and other news sources. I use Akregator. Others use Firefox’s live bookmark, and still others prefer Google Reader. Even with little differences, the main point is that those tools permit the reader to be informed only when I change something; then you don’t need to waste your time to click on my blog only to see if I posted something. A list of aggregators can be found following this orange symbol here on the right. Be prepared to see that symbol everywhere because, where it is, there is a news source.

Trust me, using an aggregator is mandatory. Your possibilities will be multiplied more than with any other tool. Today 1 out of 3 of the visits to the most important blogs are through news feed readers.

But all this can still sound difficult to some people. Then, with the help of Feedburner, you can subscribe to this blog even via email. Just insert your email address in the box here at the right. You will receive a confirmation request from emaildefuego. By accepting, you will be subscribed and will receive all my posts in your mailbox. It’s really easy.

Photo credit: Orin Optiglot, Padday

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First oscar awarded movie under CC license

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

A Story Of Healing

Today was the last Web 2.0 Expo day, but everyone in the world is writing about this. I prefer to write about what I’ve seen at the Creative Commons Salon SF made up by the Creative Commons guys.

Jay Dedman opened the evening presenting the new SpinXpress.com’s “Get Media” feature. With this you can find the Creative Commons object to use in your videos. Jay is a CNN International veteran who now plays with Vlogging (Video Blogging).

Following Jay, Liz Dunn with Technorati presented Where’s The Fire: a system that brings the most important news of the blogosphere to the attention of the user. News is selected by means of a continuous poll by the users: something like a Technorati internal digg. I’ve also known that for years, everything produced by Technorati is released under a Creative Commons license.

Have you never searched for some data online? If you’ve never tried it, you don’t know that you can never find anything. A lot of sites write, comment, and play with data, but not bare bone data. Sometimes bare bone data are more explicative of 1000 words, but you cannot find them on the Internet. A good answer to this problem comes from Brian Mulloy, Dimitry Dimov and Sara Wood with swivel.com: a 2.0 start-up company focused on data: bare bone data.

Seth Mazow works with Interplast: a medical doctors’ association that works in the third world (foto); something like the doctors without borders of plastic surgery. Seth has announced that the movie “A Story of Healing”, Oscar awarded in1998 as Best Documentary, is now released with a Creative Commons License. Seth illustrated that the earning curve naturally sloped down year by year. So, ten years after the start, they decided to release it under a Creative Commons License. Now it is the first CC licensed movie to be awarded by the Academy in the story. I’ve seen the documentary and it is really a must-see. Click here to see it. Take a look, copy it and share it with your friend: Creative Commons Licenses rocks.

The evening presenter was the Creative Commonist Jon Phillips already met by me with Jay Dedman at the Super Happy Vlog House.

Here are the Foto and video.

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Sflickr meeting and Usability 2.0

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Sflickr second anniversary T-Shirt

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.

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Yepa Web Interface presentation (video)

Friday, February 9th, 2007

Today I produced my first video in order to present the Yepa Web Interface. YWI is the new interface between Yepa and the customers. Our users can now see the list of their domains, manage them and register new domains. They can browse the Yepa Knowledge Base, charge their account with Paypal or with a credit card and a lot of other bells and whistles.

I captured the video from my screen, using Beryl on linux. Roll the cube is really funny.

The soundtrack is from Silvio’s and Stefano’s group and is titled MKM1 (don’t ask me why).

Enjoy the view (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUiRHARXGJ0).

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