links for 2011-09-19

"We humans see change as if looking through a window at a stormy night sky. Clouds rush by while the Moon appears a fixed point. In fact the Moon is hurtling by at 2288 miles per hour, much faster than the clouds. It’s just further away."

"In short, with video the news is some good and some bad. You’ll likely find your content is misused less but you’ll have a harder time tracking it when it is. Likewise, you’ll find that there is more aggressive copyright enforcement by the major players in this area, but also that they are more open to licensing agreements that let you use their work for free."

Succinct and to the point from Joanne Mallon

"In a week that has seen Facebook make all sorts of changes to the news feed we are starting to see some even bigger changes being tested on the site this afternoon. most of them seem to copy Google + and it the changes involve the News feed, photos and how content is updated in real time. Facebook absolutely have their pedal to the metal at the moment and this is possibly the biggest week of changes that we have ever seen on the site in it’s history. Since Monday the entire look and feel of the site has been changed."

Analysis of the impact of +1 clicks on the BBC's search traffic

"In one of the most recent incidents involving someone taking a video of the police in a public place, Emily Good of Rochester, N.Y. was arrested after she videotaped a local police incident from her own property — and was later charged with obstruction of justice for arguing with a police officer who told her she didn’t have the right to videotape him. As it turned out, the police officer was wrong."

"Government should openly and publicly reconsider its approach to media policy in the light of the phone hacking scandal. The undersigned individuals and organisations are concerned that the government’s approach to policymaking in the media sector does not fully reflect the seriousness of the ethical failures of news organisations in the UK."