(Kicks) - Rocketboom is doing a series of videos focusing on Internet memes of 2007. Here’s the list so far:

• Technoviking - fear the Technoviking
• LOL Cats
• One Take
• I Like Turtles - validate the ”I Like Turtles” kid
• The Rickroll - get Rickrolled
• Natural Parody

Just  a short update on a couple of things.

1. CNN will not be offered on the news channel as I previously posted. I found out that YouTube blocks all U.S. viewers from seeing CNN’s content. I guess the cable news distribution model doesn’t work with the reality of U.S. residents increasing preference for getting their news online. Ignoring your audience’s media consumption habits worked really well for the recording industry. Now tech companies own distribution of their content after forcing an old industrial distribution model into an early retirement.
    
2. Phil came by last night with Neil and Ali for some dinner and catching up with old friends. I’ll try to post some video if we weren’t too drunk.
     
3. The girls are getting better with the potty training. Mimi is emerging as a little devil dog. Trudy is an instigator. It’s as though she knows Mimi is a formidible challenge but just small enough to never really hurt her.

I added a new channel featuring news. Click the “News” tab above. I’m currently aggregating from CBS, Rueters and PoliticoPlaybook. I’ll add other news video sources as they become available. Enjoy!

UPDATE 12-21-07 7:51am - I added CNN, FOX, and Sky News to the news channel. CNN is having some issues this morning, but now you can catch the latest from all these news sources.

As you now know, Perez Hilton’s channel was suspended on YouTube for alleged copyright violations. I did some digging and found this video of Perez Hilton being confronted by a photographer for even more alleged copyright violation. Watch as Perez demonstrates a typical attitude among some bloggers on use of copyrighted material.

Hollywood gossip Perez Hilton’s YouTube account has been suspended. Hilton says YouTube removed a Liza Minnelli video he posted on Monday because of copyright violation. Perez posted this video under a different account in response.

“I’m going to try not to get angry, or upset or raise my voice because thankfully I’ve already done enough of that without the camera rolling. My YouTube account was suspended. I’ve emailed YouTube, but I’ve yet to hear from any person there. I’ve just got an automated email from them.

Apparently, the Liza Minnelli video that I posted on Monday was in violation of someone’s copyright which is really confusing to me because the person who took the Liza Minnelli is a reader of my website gave me permission to use the clip and I still have mutliple emails from that person sending me the video and giving me permission to use it.

The only thing I can think of is someone at Liza Minnelli’s record company was upset that this video showing her being drunk or on drugs allegedly is out there and they wanted to get it removed from YouTube. Well, as a result my account was suspended.”
[Perez Hilton - YouTube - 12-18-07]

UPDATE 5:12p.m. - Now this video has been removed by YouTube with the following statement in its place: “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”

UPDATE 12-19-07 7:44a.m. - In part of the video I transcribed above (no longer available on YouTube), Perez Hilton claimed no one ever complained about copyright violations before the Liza Minnelli incident. This is not true. I alerted Perez Hilton on two violations prior to his account being suspended and got no response. One was for posting an entire segment of ABC’s daytime talk show The View. The other was for using Macy Gray’s music over a photo montage of his new dog.

UPDATE 12-20-07 - 2:49p.m. - Perez Hilton has returned to YouTube.