for the record. I got wind of the balcony TV take down from Inga in Boston who is on a different time zone to me. I did my usual 5 hours sleep but started at 11pm so was up at 4:30am. saw the issue. blogged it, and while I blogged it I was so pissed, and answering Inga’s request for a fix/take down from a myspace & web site for the broken video’s I decided NO feck that I wont. I will re upload the videos. Now here is the science bit. You can and should take copies of stuff on youtube if you ever feel it may be removed by whomever! details on how to archive it will be at the bottom of this post.

So i went to my virgin youtube account, and uploaded the very FLVs I supplied to enterprise ireland a month ago for the midem bash in france. youtube took the FLVs that it once gave me and the two eleanor mcevoy videos are restored. o happy days (for me not balcony TV).

What the hell is youtube up to? i suspect Balcony TV was a director account? and had 223 vidz up there? and the cut off was ever so clinical? when 2-tone.info migrated from majordomo to google groups (gg), GG had an oops, you can’t message 900 people an invite, who are you? kinda response. 2-tone.info said who they were etc. and all was well. DMCA viacom is the tip of the iceberg, if WIPO gets podcasting inside the broadcast treaty, we are all doomed. Thankfully PodRepBod and its international partners including EFF & the international podcast group are keeping an eye to that area.

so mystery over, thats how at least two Balcony TV vidz of old survived..

there is a way to grab the feed of a youtube video.

using the firefox browser get a plugin (add on) called videodownloader
from http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php

follow its instruction and change the file extension to .flv
and you have your own copy of the video without the youtube ‘dog’

you may play these files with a .flv player like FLV player
http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated

you are then able to one click convert it to things like a video iPod
with a tool like http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

all software discussed is Free/shareware/or Open source

“we don’t need no stinking transmitters” ? or do we, when control of your content is in the hands of a network with less right of reply than a kangaroo court, perhaps a spare TX or two is handy.

Not since the jamming of Sunshine Radio & Radio Nova has a Dublin 4 outfit had so much effect on blocking independent media in this country. But this time the D4 outfit is Google owned YouTube.

more details on the pulling of Balcony TV here & here

watch the video statement here

and for a balcony TV retake of a cool tune, this is “the fields of Dublin 4″ for the crew in Barrow Street.

with all this social networking and blogging, are forums and mailing lists used less? SNs and blogs don’t seem to do ‘virtual community discourse’ like a good old flame war on a BB or a mailing list.

blogs and “be-my-friend” sites are all about the me meme or me,me,me. Where as lists and forums, notwithstanding their more vocal contributors, were to me, all about reaching a public consensus on the topic or thread, to a point where all the points were made or the topic goes cold due to exhaustion.

a quick fire of comments to a blog post might do more for the ego than it will ever do for a topics full on agenda.

has anyone any ideas on how web 1.0 affected the BBS’s etc. of yester-year. or on how web 2.0 is hitting the community driven forums we all hung out on.?
While no one would shut down a forum just because web minutes are being spent elsewhere more (nowadays), as people, and forget tech for a moment, if we fail to use our community forums we are in danger of ending up in gated apartment blocks owned by newSINternational and gooogle. iWarn. Slán.

[cross posted on OPEN list]

o to own a house that needs a stairs like this. from Art Francais

these guys are blogging out of Drumshanbo, Co.Leitrim where they have bypassed a website and gone direct for rss blog cms fuzzyness that makes one wonder why have a website at all. disclosure: doop.ie had a hand in the design & blog training. Art Francais are part of leitrim county enterprise board’s Innovate programme.

[cross posted from angloirish.info blog]

EPISODE 2: Brian reminisces about his early childhood train journeys across the UK on the British Rail system. I was fool enough to think new labour would re-nationalise it. With the above inflation fare increase of yesterday and the fact that the only nationalised rail transport in the UK is Direct Rail Services Limited which ships nuclear waste about, will the permanent way ever be permanent?

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the admission is free, we drink lots of tea and the company, its really nice, you’ll never be redundant the work here its abundant, some people have come back twice!
Irelands podcasting rep body can always do with new members, join for free today at http://groups.google.com/group/podrepbod where we talk shop on rss/digital radio/kit/the law/the music/the market/codex etc. more details (but not many) on the PodRepBod blog

youtube allows you to rss feed by tags like http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/dublin.rss

it will let you rss against a user like http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/dojodub.rss

but you have little control over these feeds.

you can control your own playlists in youtube but not rss them afaik
so I feed43′ed one of my playlists here as this feed http://www.feed43.com/MyOldGreyTubeTest.xml

the feed43 parse magic is here

where would bill be with out ben

or zig without zag or

ant without dec

are technolotics ever going to flickr or tubes again? lads ‘come back’ tours are popular nowadays

what these guys know about social tubing they could teach a course in trinners… where can I subscribe again? or has the evil Fox signed up these guys for a Soledad O’Brien type ‘The Site’ show on cable… Mystery continues into two thousand double ‘O’ seven

it was pointed out to me by an rss developer that was testing against my feed that my briangreene.com domain had no favicon.ico — I hated IE for making the requests on my server for a file I did not have and did not want, and for a crime I did not commit. But I have decided to add a favicon. And in the spirit of it being a favourite icon I have chosen a favourite icon of the silver screen and a favourite of mine grace kelly

©onrad g®eene on flickr