Andy’s Blog

I’m Always up for freebies, write a review and we’ll send you a product(anyone want me to review an xbox360 ).

the guys across at Spreadshirt are offering a free t-shirt from the marketplace if you blog about it(limited numbers if your interested ).

Browsing around the Marketplace there are certainly some interesting t-shirts available including this little Number:

Student Life

Certainly not for wearing when you having tea with you aunt dot is it.

My personal Favourite is ‘Power to Gaming’. A simple design with a lot of impact, and the mouse looks a lot like a Razer diamondback.

Spreadshirt

Power to Gaming

Whatever your taste pop over to SpreadShirtand see whats there or make your mark and design the next best t-shirt.

You Tube is seen by many as the best website on the internet. It provides people with a platform to show there film creating talents to the world. Spend a few minutes browsing around and you can find videos of a “Talking Cat” or someone’s sporting accomplishments captured on film for the world to see.

As highlited in a recent BBC Panorama Programme entitled “Children’s Fight Club” there is also a  growing trend of people adding very disturbing video’s to Youtube.

Whilst browsing around youtube its not long before you stumble across Video’s showing school children being bullied and psyically assulted by their own class mates. The attackers then place these videos on the internet for the world to see.Not only does the victim have to suffer the physical attacks but then they have the face the fact that the videos taken by their attackers will be on the internet, where they or their family and friends may see them.

Who’s responsibility is it to remove these videos?

YouTube’s Spokesperson Rachel Whetstone Says that it is the responsibility of the user community to decide wether these types of videos are innapropriate.

To me that sounds like passing the book, if I was to host similar videos on this blog then that would be my responsibility and you could almost gaurantee that I would be before a judge explaining my actions pretty quickly.

So how do Youtube and site similar get away with it? Surely there are laws preventing the distribution of video depicting criminal acts.

 Will Youtube moderate the content uploaded to their site, probably not, it would take a lot of people and money to police such a vast quantity of content. But then again the Parent company Google surely could afford this and I am sure that the ammount of money the site is making from advertising would more than cover the cost.

I personally feel that sites like these have a moral if not legal obligation to ensure that these videos are deleted, but until then I guess it is down to the Community to Mark the videos as innapropriate, that or find an alternative site for sharing videos.

Jessica Luthi CEO AffiliateProgramAdvice.com has compiled a very well written open letter to Youtube regarding this matter.

The Panorama Show is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6920000/newsid_6923900/6923914.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&news=1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/6921555.stm

I’ve been too busy this week to do any real work, why? as the title says, I’m getting Married :D.

 It’s a rare occasion for several reasons, obviously you dont get married every day, so that is the main thing but, I also have a whole day, yep 24 hours, off work, its unheard of and im not sure how I’ll manage(which is why im getting my internet fix this morning).

The scariest thing of all though, is the fact that I’ll be wearing a suit. Shock Horror.

So this will be my last post as a Free man, No longer will I be able to put single or co-habiting on surveys or forms.

 wish me luck. lol