Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the governor of Alaska and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election. She was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996 and mayor from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004. She was elected governor of Alaska in November 2006 by defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary and a former two-term Democratic governor in the general election. She is the youngest person to have been elected to the position, and Alaska’s first female governor. On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain announced he had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate. She was nominated at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Palin is the first woman and the first Alaskan to run on the Republican Party’s presidential ticket. (Wikipedia)

Palin facing voters who doubt her readiness
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin enters her debate Thursday night with Democratic rival Joe Biden as many voters harbor …

A less-popular Sarah Palin heads to debate
Los Angeles Times, CA
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer When Sarah Palin was introduced five weeks ago as John McCain’s running mate, her impact seemed seismic. …

Political Wisdom: Sarah Palin’s Big Moment Arrives
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
by Sara Murray and Gerald F. Seib Tonight’s vice presidential debate is the big moment for Gov. Sarah Palin, and Michelle Cottle of The New Republic says …

McCain’s ‘Stop Sarah Palin’ strategy working like a charm, polls show
Los Angeles Times, CA
Sarah Palin to stoke overconfidence among the nation’s Democrats and set the stage for yet another improbable Arizona comeback is working exactly as planned …

My life as Sarah Palin: in the line scrutiny
Newsday, NY
I was Sarah Palin last week. Someone quizzed me in front of a camera, asking me all sorts of questions – in my case, for an upcoming documentary on Shea …

Latest Sarah Palin Couric release
The Times, South Africa
Michelle Cottle in The New Republic says that the McCain campaign must be wondering why they hired Sarah Palin. ‘The governor obviously possesses raw …

Viewpoint: Palin column prompts rapid response
Baltimore Sun, United States
Sarah Palin is out of her league and should step down from the GOP ticket. The fierce reaction to my column has been both BRACing and enlightening. …

Palin has confounded opponents and staff in previous debates
Seattle Times, United States
“The political landscape here is littered with people who have underestimated Sarah Palin,” said Eric Croft, a former state representative who ran for the …

Entertainment value ‘huge’ for Palin-Biden
Hollywood Reporter, United States
Maybe the first McCain-Obama go-round wasn’t as widely watched as expected, but Thursday night’s vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden …

Palin stumbles on questions
News24, South Africa
Washington – Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin underlined her opposition to abortion in a televised interview on Wednesday, but stumbled on …

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Questions For Sarah Palin
masaccio
Palin. Palin. Here are three questions I’d like to ask Sarah Palin at the Debate. 1. Methicillen Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus and Multi-Drug Resistant TB are two emerging threats to health in the US. You have stated that you would …

10 answers for Sarah Palin
(Roger Simon)
Even if asked tough questions at the debate, Sarah Palin doesn’t have to be a genius to win.

Sarah Palin: Supreme Court rulings?
Mark Silva
COURIC: Joe Biden and Sarah Palin have put in some very long days, preparing for tomorrow night’s debate. Tonight, to give you a better sense of who they are and their views on a number of issues, we’re beginning a new series, …

Yet Another Slick Sarah Palin Secret E-Mail Account
Kagro X
Like Karl Rove and the rest of the Bush/Cheney gang before her, Sarah Palin has been evading public oversight and record keeping laws with what it turns out is an ever-expanding network of secret e-mail accounts designed to keep her …

Rolling Stone presents 11 myths about Sarah Palin
Mark Frauenfelder
Rolling Stone has compiled a nice list of myths about Sarah Palin. 1. THE MYTH: “She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay. And made a profit!” — John McCain, at a campaign stop in Wisconsin …

Sarah Palin’s Lesbian Friend
DAN SAVAGE
Sarah Palin claimed to have gay friends when she ran for governor of Alaska in 2006. Gay bloggers and reporters have attempted to locate Palin’s allegedly gay alleged friends in the weeks since John McCain selected her as his running …

My Sarah Palin Order!
Dee
For some reason, the bumper sticker pictures don’t want to show up on this post. The first one said, “Sarah Palin A Hero for Real Women”. The second one said, “Sarah Barracuda for Vice President”. I also got my Mom a tote bag. …

Palin Silent on Supreme Court Question
Tahman Bradley
ABC News’ Ariane DeVouge Reports: In an interview with CBS’s Katie Couric on “The Evening News” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin could not cite a Supreme Court decision she thinks was wrongly decided besides Roe v. Wade. In the interview, Palin. …

Sarah Palin has a name for your baby
Roger Sinasohn
Yep, coming all the way from Alaska via that well-known series of tubes, it’s the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. Just put in the name you were thinking of and get back Sarah’s suggestion for a better name. …

Sarah Palin and the Right to Privacy
Jonathan Singer
There has been quite a bit of focus — rightly so — on Sarah Palin’s apparent inability to name a Supreme Court case outside of Roe v. Wade with which she disagreed, but I’m with Marc Ambinder: To me, even more stunning than Palin’s …

Video: 9/30 Sarah Palin Katie Couric FULL INTERVIEW (HQ). This is the full story/ full interview from Tuesday September 30th, 2008

Google Video team joined the Sitemaps to introduce Video Sitemaps, allowing an XML submission of video assets for your site. This new tool will ease your self-hosted videos to compete with the big sites, like YouTube, when someone use Google Video Search. Your video may also appear in other Google search products

(See the full article in Google Webmaster Central Blog)

You can use a Video Sitemap to add descriptive information – such as a video’s title, description, duration, etc. – that makes it easier for users to find a particular piece of content. When a user finds your video through Google, they will be linked to your hosted environments for the full playback.

Google can crawl the following video file types: .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .mov, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .ra, .ram, .rm, .flv.

There are already some previous efforts to index the online videos:

MIT’s new CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) “Lecture Browser” may be raising the bar on searching the spoken audio in videos, for indexing. In fact, it’s receiving over 20,000 hits per day – and it is to date only indexing lectures.
Originally funded by Microsoft and first announced in August, the Lecture Browser offers results in either video or audio timeline sections, the section containing the search term is highlighted, and snippets of surrounding text are displayed. The searcher can also “jump” to the relevant section of the video directly from the index, as well. ( Wireless Speech Recognition ..) (Again, Google vs. Microsoft!)

In an interview with Everyzing‘s CEO Tom Wilde, he discusses a valuable step forward in letting Web users find the videos that they are interested in – using speech recognition to parse and publish the spoken audio streams, of videos that are posted to the Web. ( Wireless Speech Recognition ..)

As it is discussed in a thread at Webmaster World, it is possible that Google to intend to develop its own such technology.