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Andrew Hill Mosaic, currently 'Black Fire' edit: what a magnificient player! His solos, though 'modernist' never loose the drama or the lyricism, the expression of the emotions.

Allman Brothers Band - Live At Fillmore East - Capricorn

And something more then a photo contest, IMHO Interesting and funny. http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/

It's a sunny saturday morning and I woke up with Art Blakey's drumming in mind so: The Jazz Messengers - Columbia, six eyes 360 mono. Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Mosaic - BN, NY stereo.

I think Google, and most of the big companies simply don't care about complains unless these complains come under the radar of other mass medias, television and newspaper, at that point bad exposure may harm their business, so they care. A legal action if successful is bad exposure. Another problem is that all this internet stuff is new and evolvig faster then legislation supposed to regulate it, so the courts around the world haven't got any precedents and rely on existing legislation based on old mass media. Said that I still don't think that the lack of appropriate laws is an excuse to stigmatise every legal action against dotcom company as an assasination attempt to freedom and democracy. This is an old vice of every new business, not very different from the rant coming from Wall Street when the goverment want stricter rules for derivates and futures trading. Making money is not equal to social progress, expecially in a long perspective, that is the reason because we elect our goverment otherwise we should elect CEOs. I guess Thomas Jefferson would have called it 'democracy'.

It was one of the most viewed in Italy, so I'd not say 'virtually nothing', and the news stories didn't report the percentage of flaggings and we don't have the complete sentence neither, that will be published in a month, so we are talking about 'virtually nothing'. "Most entertaining" by user votes, not most viewed. (Actually, it doesn't look like there is a "most entertaining" category - there's "most discussed," "top rated," "top favorited," "most viewed" - which look like lists of 100 videos in each of YT's 14 categories for every different country.) That's 14*4*100 = 5600 videos per country, every single day. I just reset my country in Youtube to Italy and clicked through the current "most viewed" list. This video is currently the 97th most viewed in Italy, and it already has 3000 views despite being up only 24 hours. The other video took 2 months just to get to 5500 views. Ok, I am not really interested in defending a verdict I consider stupid. If you're right the verdict will be reversed in the next trial and the justice will prevail, like in the mainstream hollywood's movies. I was simply pissed off by the naive picture of a corporation as a champ of freedom and democracy.

It was one of the most viewed in Italy, so I'd not say 'virtually nothing', and the news stories didn't report the percentage of flaggings and we don't have the complete sentence neither, that will be published in a month, so we are talking about 'virtually nothing'.

Haydn - Symphonies 36-48 - Dorati, Decca box set.

Are you saying that Youtube should be automatically blocking some videos upon their upload? Youtube already does this for a lot of copyrighted material, to a pretty sophisticated degree. But that's relatively easy to do because "all" that is is comparing data in your database of copyrighted material with what's being uploaded. You can try to develop systems to flag potentially offensive videos automatically, but by doing so you're committing yourself to a game of cat and mouse. It's not easy to develop systems that reliably catch the bad stuff without having deleterious effects on the people with the good stuff; a signal of an "offensive" video is rarely as obvious as a ticking package. How do you analyze a video that has kids making fun of another autistic kid to know it's offensive? You can look at the tags, but there might not be any and they might be misleading. For instance, if you set up a rule that says "if the video contains a tag of 'Hitler,' require manual review", you're going to be inundated with hundreds of parodies of Downfall for every instance of actual neo-Nazi propaganda. And even if you manage to do this, the people uploading the bad stuff get better and better at getting around you. So Youtube appears to rely on crowdsourcing (flagging by users after the video is live) to determine what needs to be policed. No, I am saying that if Google would have some more people analysing the flagging of users, the offensive stuff would remain online for a shorter time. From what appear on newspaper, the fact that such video was online for two months and was one of most viewed was a serious aggravation for the court. It's obvious that one can't set a software to block contents, but one should have enough people to examine the most relevant flagging.

In Italy, there are new 'offensive' contents on Facebook everyday, but the company is much more quick to act against it, maybe Google should employ some more people working on contents, they will not going to bankrupt for it. And the analogy with postman is not correct, I mean that even a postman should be trained not to deliver parcels that makes a sound like a 'tic tac' IMHO.

Yes, but EU directives still set up a "safe haven" for internet hosts where they are not responsible for pre-screening content, merely removing it when notified of various privacy or copyright violations. I suspect Google will succeed with an appeal to some higher EU court, but if not, they probably will block people with Italian IP addresses. The difference between this and China (where it looks like they may be leaving the market after all), is the system Italy is pushing onto them would cost them millions of dollars. I don't think we'll be block, maybe you are not accustomed with italian affairs: after all the bs our politicians could say, common sense will prevail, otherwise we'd be extinct since Julius Caesar.

Frankly if I were Google, I would just say F.U. Italy and block anyone from Italy from accessing YouTube rather than bowing to this ridiculous mindset. Many thanks! The above law is still a project of law involving several issues like copyright's and personal privacy's infringiment and offensive and illegal contents. Though I think it's a absurd law and that our goverment is much more interested in some sort of censorship, expecially if one consider the fact that our PM, Berlusconi, is a mass media tycoon, I don't believe Google will do anything, just look at what they did in China.

Bach - Weinachtsoratorium - Concentus Musicus Wien/Harnoncourt, Teldec box set

Andrew Hill's Mosaic, currently 'Smoke Stack'

Frank Zappa AS AN AM... ZAPPA, from 'Beat The Boots' box set

What??? You mean that your turntable isn't big enough to hold a full-size man??? No, I need one of these for the job:

Well, I dunno. I heard that you can..ahem.. wear yours. I just had some repair work done on my turntable: Where did you find those technical experts? Lilliput?

I check the SHF now and then, just to see if someone there has a turntable bigger then mine, they haven't.

Curtis Fuller's Mosaic

Mark Twain's Roughing It, great book, full of humor and wit. In these days of global communication networks, reading such books of travel literature, an admittely 'obsolete' genre, it makes me wonder if we didn't miss something in this world of overwhelming information.

I guess my son in SF and the fact I have to go to work every morning here are playing a some role in it.

I am back! Apologies to everybody if I didn't contact anyone, but we had lots of things to do in order to enroll my son to Academy Of Art University, I didn't imagine that much. And it was a "family business", both practical and emotional, so I skipped my personal wishes, including meeting some of you guys. Hope I'll get the chance in the future: my son will be in SF the next four years, guess I'll visit him more then once. Anyway I followed some of the suggestions you gave me. I rented a car at the airport, luckily not a Toyota, and drove directly south along the coast, Monterey and Santa Barbara, where I have some friends. Then the Grand Canyon, thanks God for the GC, the north rim was closed because of snow so were most of trails, but it was marvellous anyway. The Monument Valley was just around the corner so I took the usual pictures, tasting definitely different with the snow. Then Las Vegas, one night with dinner, psycologically interesting place, the Hoover Dam and Death Valley. We weren't really lucky with the weather, it's winter overall, so I drove a lot, there was no point to spend more then one day in places with rain, clouds and snow, it was raining in Vegas too!! We spent lots of time in San Francisco, loved the city and the friendly people, (btw Vegas a part I met always nice people along the trip), walking around was a good exercize too and the weather was fair. Took a bike trip from Union Square to Golden Gate Park, Presido and Chrissy Fields. On a week end I rented a car and drove north to Mendocino and Humbold Reedwood. I didn't buy any records at Amoeba in Upper Haight, but I bought a couple of cool hats in North Beach, Goorin Bros, some books for my son at City Light Bookstore, and some clothes at the sales, excellent prices, compared to Rome. Now I am at home, with a terrible jet lag, I wake up at six am every morning and the weather is awful, I miss my son and San Francisco too!

Curtis Fuller Mosaic, disc one. Yes, the public opinion must know.

Horace Parlan - On The Spur Of The Moment - BN, Music Matter 45rpm reissue.

YESSS, happy birthday Patricia!!!