Hack the Vote

by on November 8, 2006 · 6 comments

Jim Lippard notes that HBO’s “Hacking the Vote” special is available for viewing on Google Video here. I haven’t had time to watch it yet, but if Diebold hates it, it must have some merit.

On an unrelated note, am I blind, or does Google video still not have an “embed this video” feature? That seems to have been one of the most important factors in YouTube’s rise to prominence, and it can’t possibly be a difficult feature to clone. Why hasn’t Google implemented it yet?

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  • http://tim.geekheim.de/ Tim Pritlove

    They have that feature. Just click the big blue “Email – Blog – Post to MySpace” button and then select “Embed HTML”.

  • http://tim.geekheim.de/ Tim Pritlove

    They have that feature. Just click the big blue “Email – Blog – Post to MySpace” button and then select “Embed HTML”.

  • http://www.techliberation.com/ Tim

    I am just blind. Thanks!

  • http://www.techliberation.com/ Tim

    I am just blind. Thanks!

  • http://techdirt.com/ Mike Masnick

    Tim,

    It’s worth watching. I watched the entire thing a couple days ago, and it’s definitely got some good stuff in there.

    However, it’s also chock full of the ominous voice-over and the ominous background music — both of which I could do without. At times, it strays too far into “conspiracy” land.

    But outside of that, it has a lot of interesting background info about the e-voting space, some of which I hadn’t seen/heard before.

  • http://techdirt.com/ Mike Masnick

    Tim,

    It’s worth watching. I watched the entire thing a couple days ago, and it’s definitely got some good stuff in there.

    However, it’s also chock full of the ominous voice-over and the ominous background music — both of which I could do without. At times, it strays too far into “conspiracy” land.

    But outside of that, it has a lot of interesting background info about the e-voting space, some of which I hadn’t seen/heard before.

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