Every now and then I mention a documentary podcast that I just listened to.  Most of the times they will be something I heard on the BBC Documentary Archive Podcast by far the best podcast to subscribe to. Anyone with a player, add it to your list.

Sometimes on news, sometimes on Technology and the sometimes like one I embedded here (or like the last one released “Spanning the World”), a slice of life. Do check out the Virtual Revolution series as well.

Thank’s to the BBC for sharing…

With the help of a hammer-wielding scientist, Jennifer Aniston and a general anaesthetic, Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science’s greatest mysteries: how do we know who we are? While the thoughts that make us feel as though we know ourselves are easy to experience, they are notoriously difficult to explain. So, in order to find out where they come from, Marcus subjects himself to a series of probing experiments.

He learns at what age our self-awareness emerges and whether other species share this trait. Next, he has his mind scrambled by a cutting-edge experiment in anaesthesia. Having survived that ordeal, Marcus is given an out-of-body experience in a bid to locate his true self. And in Hollywood, he learns how celebrities are helping scientists understand the microscopic activities of our brain. Finally, he takes part in a mind-reading experiment that both helps explain and radically alters his understanding of who he is.

Broadcast on: BBC HD, 9:00pm Friday 23rd October 2009
Duration: 60 minutes
Available until: 8:59pm Friday 27th November 2009
Categories: Factual, Science & Nature

Not living in the UK, I cannot access the documentary on the BBCs own iPlayer, thus the youtube videos.
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Sites like SurfTheChannel, Watch-Movies and Tv-Links and many Many MANY like them have been around and sprung up since a couple of years now. Then there’s NBC, FOX and (surely CBS offers this too) that stream their shows on their website via an on-demand service.Though highly annoying as it is for US surfers only, so you cannot access it unless you visit them via a proxy.

. All thanks to Flash video, as I am sure Macromedia (ahem, Adobe) would want you to believe. Putting the origins aside. Having settled their dispute with Viacom, YouTube (ahem Google) now signed a deal with MGM. Youtube will show full-length films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s archives…

So who will the other portals follow with now? Surely Turner and Murdoch have some deals up theirs (he he – now I don’t), I mean their sleeves as well…

watch this story closely as it develops…

more on the BBC

But then maybe this movie ‘Taxi to the dark side’, which funnily I heard on the BBC World just a few days before, AnOther American Crime…

see more here – and spread the word…

…one big loss for us. Google, and other major search engines, have so far refused to hand over user profiles to governments (officially anyways), but now things are about to change…

from BBC:

Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.

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watched Alex Jones’ Endgame Movie yesterday, though I really don’t like the guy (he screams to much…and is too much of an US American) but this news announcement fits the message of his movie…

crossed these links last week. Nice followup to these thoughts I found:
The hazy interest-group : internet2.edu (don’t mind the men behind the curtain)

The ingredients: learnthenet.com/english/html/03future.htm (Say what?)

The (possible) aftermath or outcome: futureoftheinternet.org (It’s all so clear to me now)

A more rosy outlook: webcitation.org/5TchF5fkl (do not despair, the future is is what you make it to be)