Hyphen, the god of marriage

[bunsen_h]

Earlier, I was musing over the debacle of the live streaming of the Hugo Awards ceremony - the service provider, ustream, cut off the webcast part way through Neil Gaiman's acceptance speech for alleged "copyright violations", apparently because their automated systems for trapping copyright violations were triggered by the video clips provided by

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[dewline]

Heard about the UStream debacle through other sources. Most dismaying in several respects. Ditto the lack of pre-planned ramp construction for people with accessibility issues(EG: crutches, wheelchairs, etc.) from some of those same other friends.

Yeah, I suspect that UStream is not long for a future as a result of this foul-up.

As for your name joke...where's the Royal Canadian Air Farce Chicken Cannon? I want to borrow it for a mission of vengeance.

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Yeah, I suspect that UStream is not long for a future as a result of this foul-up.

You are kidding right? It's barely a blip in the water as far as ustream is concerned. There big money is things like streaming presidential converage, what do they care about pissing off 100 Hugo watchers?

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I doubt your doubts in turn.

This glitch happens right in the middle of a Gaiman speech? That's not going to get traction on a wider scale?

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Yes, because thousands of people watch the Hugos on the off chance that Neil Gaiman would win. (Ok, given his competition in the category, it was a good chance that he would win, but still - it's a fucking Oscar speech, not a Gaiman-specific event like a valectditorian speech

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From what I can gather from the tweeters (I had given up in annoyance on the ustream feed about 5 minutes before they got to Neil Gaiman's acceptance because of the combo of laggy display (an issue on my end) and annoying ads with ramped up volume interrupting the streaming (on their end)

I heard he did a good speech.

The small fragment of Jo's speech that I "heard" (people tweeting) was completely in character too, I could here her saying it when I read the tweets:
http://twitter.com/genreville/status/242462221135904768
and
http://twitter.com/genreville/status/242463064853737472

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Also liked Kij Johnson's:

http://twitter.com/genreville/status/242461579038306304

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On your original topic, maybe they could switch names. Neil can become Neil Fucking Palmer, and Amanada can become Amanda Fucking Gaiman.

#department_of_we_may_be_crass_but_bunsen_h_set_it_up_dept

[bunsen_h]

Well done. Cute. Crass, but cute.