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From: Fred Moore on 11 Mar 2010 12:03
<http://beck.cnnbcvideo.com/?p=6023b4ca41ac5af46b50b41e9a458887&id=19314-
3975555-5qoiHRx>

(You don't have to log into Facebook to watch this. Just click 'I'm not
on Facebook'.)

Before you think I'm TOO special, MoveOn did this for all their members
as a fundraiser.

** The question for this group: Anyone know what software they might
have used to do what we could now call a 'video merge' instead of a
'mail merge'? This could be quite a powerful tool. I don't do video
editing, so maybe this is old hat; but I've never heard of/seen it
before. Glad I don't have any photos posted anywhere on the Web, or
those could have been added to the movie.

Time to get out my checkbook. Thanks MoveOn! I love anything that
ridicules Glenn 'Crying Baby-Man' Beck.
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 15 Mar 2010 22:50
On 2010-03-11 11:03 AM, Fred Moore wrote:

> (You don't have to log into Facebook to watch this. Just click 'I'm not
> on Facebook'.)

But if you do log on to Facebook, the video will be even more special.

> ** The question for this group: Anyone know what software they might
> have used to do what we could now call a 'video merge' instead of a
> 'mail merge'? This could be quite a powerful tool. I don't do video
> editing, so maybe this is old hat; but I've never heard of/seen it
> before.

I was wondering the same thing.

> Glad I don't have any photos posted anywhere on the Web, or
> those could have been added to the movie.

I think it only takes things from Facebook.

> Time to get out my checkbook. Thanks MoveOn! I love anything that
> ridicules Glenn 'Crying Baby-Man' Beck.

I'm just trying to figure out how he learned that I was the one behind
the plot to subvert the real America (which he weeps for).

-j

--
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I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts
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From: Fred Moore on 16 Mar 2010 12:04
In article <8089v5F60dU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:

> On 2010-03-11 11:03 AM, Fred Moore wrote:
>
> > (You don't have to log into Facebook to watch this. Just click 'I'm not
> > on Facebook'.)
>
> But if you do log on to Facebook, the video will be even more special.

Care to enlighten me, cuz I'm not going to sign up for Facebook?

> > ** The question for this group: Anyone know what software they might
> > have used to do what we could now call a 'video merge' instead of a
> > 'mail merge'? This could be quite a powerful tool. I don't do video
> > editing, so maybe this is old hat; but I've never heard of/seen it
> > before.
>
> I was wondering the same thing.

What's truly impressive isn't just the tailoring of the video to
individual, but the fact that it's done on the fly for hundreds of
thousands or millions of MoveOn members.

> > Glad I don't have any photos posted anywhere on the Web, or
> > those could have been added to the movie.
>
> I think it only takes things from Facebook.

Okay, but thinking of _any_ images one might have posted of oneself on
the web, what if a friend of Glenn Beck thought it would be fun to
create a lying, defamatory video of you or me using genuine images of
us? Given the immortality of the web, good luck getting that retracted.

> > Time to get out my checkbook. Thanks MoveOn! I love anything that
> > ridicules Glenn 'Crying Baby-Man' Beck.
>
> I'm just trying to figure out how he learned that I was the one behind
> the plot to subvert the real America (which he weeps for).

He just took a shot in the dark (The Fickle Finger of Fate and the phone
book probably), but you're in very good company.
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 20 Mar 2010 11:09
On 2010-03-16 11:04 AM, Fred Moore wrote:
> In article <8089v5F60dU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:

>> But if you do log on to Facebook, the video will be even more special.

> Care to enlighten me, cuz I'm not going to sign up for Facebook?

The video used information from my "Home town" listing on Facebook in
several places. In one shot a protester was holding a sign that said,
"Is Jeffrey Goldberg really from West Caldwell?"

Elsewhere, it made use of my Facebook "connections" to other people and
groups. The bit with the diagram of the nefarious network on the
blackboard used many elements from my Facebook information.

-j

--
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From: Fred Moore on 20 Mar 2010 12:13
In article <80k6ouF8btU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:

> On 2010-03-16 11:04 AM, Fred Moore wrote:
> > In article <8089v5F60dU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> > Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:
>
> >> But if you do log on to Facebook, the video will be even more special.
>
> > Care to enlighten me, cuz I'm not going to sign up for Facebook?
>
> The video used information from my "Home town" listing on Facebook in
> several places. In one shot a protester was holding a sign that said,
> "Is Jeffrey Goldberg really from West Caldwell?"
>
> Elsewhere, it made use of my Facebook "connections" to other people and
> groups. The bit with the diagram of the nefarious network on the
> blackboard used many elements from my Facebook information.

Thanks for the details, Jeffery. Now I don't know whether to marvel or
cringe at that use of technology. Perhaps I'm just paranoid, but ever
since those Israeli scientists published that research paper
demonstrating a method for faking crime-scene DNA evidence, I'm afraid
someone's going to find out I was really Jesse James in a past life. Now
they'll have surveillance video from the train to prove I robbed it in
1870. ;)
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