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September 12, 2008

Trying to Cap the Genie

ABC's Charles Gibson interviews Gov. Sarah Palin

NPR Photo-illustration/ABC News

In advance of its "ABC News Exclusive" interviews with Sarah Palin, the network distributed a detailed memo outlining what, where, when and how excepts from the interview could be used. (The full memo is included in the jump.)

This directive seems to have been ignored in wide quarters.

Certainly that's the case for Google, which owns Youtube. The video site is replete with copies of the interviews.

Politico seems to have violated a number of the provisions of the "agreement" in this piece.

And one could argue that NPR, by featuring a photo, and posting a radio story on our Web site that contains interview excerpts, also transgressed.

Are news organizations - who ought to know that this genie has long been out of the bottle - just wasting their time with these sort of restrictions? What do you think? Is this copyright violation? Are we all pirates? Or should this sort of information be allowed to flow freely?

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6:42 PM ET | 09-12-2008 | permalink

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August 15, 2008

Friday Pot Blogging

Monday's California Dreaming segment will be all about California's curious pot culture, where those in need have been able to legally procure marijuana from state licensed dispensaries for over a decade. To get you in the mood, we did a search of Youtube for "weed pot ganja white widow california thai stick" and this is what we found.

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5:24 PM ET | 08-15-2008 | permalink

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August 6, 2008

Fear the Devastating Power of My Freeze Ray

-- Gary Dauphin

It, of course, goes without saying that only mad scientists hope to control the weather. Celeste Headlee's segment on the cloud seeding, painting as it does a pacific image of benign eggheads merely trying to fight fires, or insure good weather for the Olympic opening ceremonies, (as if!) failed to warn the public about the dire, diabolical threat we face from freeze rays and other weather-related weapons. As a public service, Daydreaming has compiled some of the rigorously vetted (and often suppressed) materials on weather control available on Youtube in order to set the record straight.*

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2:01 PM ET | 08- 6-2008 | permalink

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July 31, 2008

See the Music

We're still looking for additions to our list of the most iconic songs about California. In the meantime, we sent NPR intern Sarah Whites-Koditschek to the intern's natural habitat (Youtube) in order to find us videos for some of your suggestions. Here is what she brought back.

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1:40 PM ET | 07-31-2008 | permalink

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Not Just a Fan

Turns out iconic LA Lakers fan, actor, and man-about-town Jack Nicholson can add another notch to the lengthy, belt-like record of his achievements: Green Automotive Visionary. According to this snazzy, super-70s clip from Canada's national public broadcaster, the CBC, Jack was touting futuristic hydrogen-powered cars decades before the Governator retrofitted his Hummers. Check it out:

Too good to be true, heh? Although Jack's investment in that hydrogen-fuel company doesn't seem to have panned out, it is actually possible for Angelenos to fill up on the "H." As we recently reported, a West Los Angeles Shell station is now serving up hydrogen along with gasoline.

Special thanks to Day to Day listener Dirk Neely from Los Angeles for that YouTube link.

And Jack: if you're reading this blog (and we know you are!) tell us what happened to that '78 Chevy! Send us a comment, or come on the show. We're waiting patiently...

--Shereen Marisol Meraji

11:59 AM ET | 07-31-2008 | permalink

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June 25, 2008

Youtubing the CA Dream

When NPR interns aren't scouring the internets, airwaves, cable channels and print headlines for news of the day and important cultural developments, they're scouring the internets, airwaves, cable channels and print headlines for kicks and LOLCATS. We sent NPR intern Sarah Whites-Koditschek to the intern's natural habitat (Youtube) in order to find us images of the California Dream, and this is what she brought back.

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1:21 PM ET | 06-25-2008 | permalink

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