From what I've seen, the topics discussed in Blogs aren't results of investigative journalism, they are in most cases (excluding the "what I ate for breakfast blogs") discussing events seen in the news.
A clear example of this is the genocide in Darfur and that it was an almost complete silence within the Blog-community, and this was connected to the silence in the mainstream media. As soon as the mainstream media started to air stories about Darfur, the Blogs caught up and got active in this topic.
Is this bad? Well, it's not "bad" per say, it's just a hint about Blogs not being the future of journalism, what it is is a brilliant way to spread and take part of information.
I see the emotional reasoning behind what you wrote, but in all reality you could cause collateral damage on sites hosted by the same ISP, or even the same network provider.
What should be done is to simply put pressure on the ISPs hosting these spammers, and cut them off by blocking their mail-servers and even web-servers used to sell their goods.
The "spam attack" was a PR-stunt by Lycos (first tested in Sweden), which apparently back-fired now.
In the article at http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/30/141 0232 this is written in the end, and I see 2 sides of the argue here.
The copyright holder wants to keep their copyrights and possibility to gain financially until their copyright on the material pass on.
The information-wants-to-be-free-activists; All information should be accessible, no matter what.
I believe that it's natural that the copyright holder defend their rights, and they should be able to decide when or if their material should be shared by anyone without their control.
Though I also believe that these copyright-holders should perhaps loosen up when it comes to defending their copyright when it comes to material that is more trivial and of common interest, and where-of this material doesn't bring them financial gain. Some "good will" would be suitable.
Would be nice to have a single login, but a single login that is connected to different levels.
Such as; one part I can use to get recognized by the average shop-site, one part is used for payment, one part is used to login to email etc.
See what I mean? Even if a cracker would break into one level of the single login-service, he would only be able to access this particular part, so he could get recognized by the e-shop but not order anything or access the user's email.
Sure, getting recognized by your peers is a very basic human need. Some seek fame, some seek confirmation and get fame as a bonus, and so on and so on...
Benefitting society can be done through many ways, programming software is just one small fragment.
Isn't Google becoming more and more "bloated" as you say?! I mean, Google are moving into the email-market with Gmail, and TV-search would be another "bloated" feature.
I believe that Google are more sensible in what they go after, they don't have a lot of features just to have them (Well, alright - "Google News" is one of the exceptions:-D) like Yahoo! and MSN (who seem to buy in most of their content anyways) for example.
Digging into audio&video is the next logic step for a company like Google, as when technologies get faster and can handle, process and send more data, we can (soon enough) start to do real-time searches within newscasts, regular progamming etc.
Depends on the person; a good lie has to be connected to both the past to seem truthful and to the future in order to predict future events... so yeah; "truthful lies" probably makes the brain work harder.
Depends on the situations you are in.
When on the road I communicate via mobile-mail (email with wap-push for notification) between me and my loved one, for example. (as this is the most cost-efficient.
But then for work, which is what the majority of my traffic is connected to, I use email, and for urgent information exchange I simply call the person I need to get hold of, or get system-information via SMS. (to mention some examples)
Email is cheaper, have a better terminal (sorry, but mobilephones aren't good to read larger amounts of text on) and is faster to parse through (connected with the terminal used to digest the information presented).
For smaller messages, chitchat and so on; IM is a great alternative. Though, when busy IM-services loses it's charm - as this is a real-time communication-form, email can get delayed at least 5-10 minutes without anyone getting annoyed.
In essence; every form of communication has it's charm and benefits - stating "Email Is Only For Old People" is just very close-minded to me, and a desperate attempt to seem "hip" and / or get attention.
Not strange at all that the 2 bonds together
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Skype is lead by the people behind Kazaa, and the same technology is behind it, as I've understood. Let's hope that Skype doesn't get cramped with spyware. Skype IS a great application, it's easy to use, can get through most firewalls and is free to use client->client.
I wrote about the concern in the (british) music-industry over the P2P-networks in my blog, over at http://www.hypocrisy.nu/archives/2004/11/concern_i n_the.html - which also connects to the "legitimate" online-resellers of music, who complain about advertisements in the P2P network applications. (based on a BBC-article) My comment connects to the above, and what I think the entertainment-industry should do.
I agree with you there, it's a bit of both worlds. Same as you can feel the oriental feel in Greece, for example.
I am pro a turkish membership, when they have settled their economical and security-political obstacles, as well as the humanitarian situation.
I can agree that Turkey is a huge new market to move into for European companies, more than they already have that is.
The turks did quite a lot of damage in mainland Greece, but now the times have changed. Life goes on, ya know?!
There is a difference between the people and their governments, and if you consider that Greece&Turkey were at war, the relationship have not always been the best.
(My girlfriend is greek, and neither she nor other of her friends and family hold any hostile feelings against any turkish individuals for the reason of them being... turkish, so yes - I know what you mean.)
The issue of the turkish invasion of Cyprus is still an infected issue, which you can see in the last referendum regarding the uniting of the south / north.
I don't want to insult you, but turkey did invade cyprus, and the source you showed me were turkish, soooo:-P
This is like a respirator for the country, they can't be doing this forever... I wonder if the Turkish population realize what challenges lay a head of them...
Thank you for the link. This was back in 2000, do you think it might've changed?
I can't read turkish either, and the skills I have in greek are of no help now:-P
All the "ACs" makes it hard to keep track!:-/
To rephrase; then it's OK that he got some kind of punishment for editing on DMOZ then?! I don't mean to be confrontative, but this is part of the very real issues at hand here.
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Ah, I thought it was something built into FireFox :) It was just something opening Internet Explorer on the side, pretty handy though.
Ah, alright - I'll look for this one then! Perhaps one can move away from IE completely when using it. :)
Or maybe get the ISPs that host them to simply... not host them?! This would not make anyone else suffer in the process.
From what I've seen, the topics discussed in Blogs aren't results of investigative journalism, they are in most cases (excluding the "what I ate for breakfast blogs") discussing events seen in the news.
A clear example of this is the genocide in Darfur and that it was an almost complete silence within the Blog-community, and this was connected to the silence in the mainstream media. As soon as the mainstream media started to air stories about Darfur, the Blogs caught up and got active in this topic.
Is this bad? Well, it's not "bad" per say, it's just a hint about Blogs not being the future of journalism, what it is is a brilliant way to spread and take part of information.
I see the emotional reasoning behind what you wrote, but in all reality you could cause collateral damage on sites hosted by the same ISP, or even the same network provider.
What should be done is to simply put pressure on the ISPs hosting these spammers, and cut them off by blocking their mail-servers and even web-servers used to sell their goods.
The "spam attack" was a PR-stunt by Lycos (first tested in Sweden), which apparently back-fired now.
In the article at http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/30/141 0232 this is written in the end, and I see 2 sides of the argue here.
The copyright holder wants to keep their copyrights and possibility to gain financially until their copyright on the material pass on.
The information-wants-to-be-free-activists; All information should be accessible, no matter what.
I believe that it's natural that the copyright holder defend their rights, and they should be able to decide when or if their material should be shared by anyone without their control.
Though I also believe that these copyright-holders should perhaps loosen up when it comes to defending their copyright when it comes to material that is more trivial and of common interest, and where-of this material doesn't bring them financial gain. Some "good will" would be suitable.
Which extension would this be? User Agent Switcher, or something else?
Would be nice to have a single login, but a single login that is connected to different levels.
Such as; one part I can use to get recognized by the average shop-site, one part is used for payment, one part is used to login to email etc.
See what I mean? Even if a cracker would break into one level of the single login-service, he would only be able to access this particular part, so he could get recognized by the e-shop but not order anything or access the user's email.
Sure, getting recognized by your peers is a very basic human need. Some seek fame, some seek confirmation and get fame as a bonus, and so on and so on...
Benefitting society can be done through many ways, programming software is just one small fragment.
Isn't Google becoming more and more "bloated" as you say?! I mean, Google are moving into the email-market with Gmail, and TV-search would be another "bloated" feature.
:-D) like Yahoo! and MSN (who seem to buy in most of their content anyways) for example.
I believe that Google are more sensible in what they go after, they don't have a lot of features just to have them (Well, alright - "Google News" is one of the exceptions
Digging into audio&video is the next logic step for a company like Google, as when technologies get faster and can handle, process and send more data, we can (soon enough) start to do real-time searches within newscasts, regular progamming etc.
Depends on the person; a good lie has to be connected to both the past to seem truthful and to the future in order to predict future events... so yeah; "truthful lies" probably makes the brain work harder.
Depends on the situations you are in. When on the road I communicate via mobile-mail (email with wap-push for notification) between me and my loved one, for example. (as this is the most cost-efficient. But then for work, which is what the majority of my traffic is connected to, I use email, and for urgent information exchange I simply call the person I need to get hold of, or get system-information via SMS. (to mention some examples) Email is cheaper, have a better terminal (sorry, but mobilephones aren't good to read larger amounts of text on) and is faster to parse through (connected with the terminal used to digest the information presented). For smaller messages, chitchat and so on; IM is a great alternative. Though, when busy IM-services loses it's charm - as this is a real-time communication-form, email can get delayed at least 5-10 minutes without anyone getting annoyed. In essence; every form of communication has it's charm and benefits - stating "Email Is Only For Old People" is just very close-minded to me, and a desperate attempt to seem "hip" and / or get attention.
Skype is lead by the people behind Kazaa, and the same technology is behind it, as I've understood. Let's hope that Skype doesn't get cramped with spyware. Skype IS a great application, it's easy to use, can get through most firewalls and is free to use client->client.
I wrote about the concern in the (british) music-industry over the P2P-networks in my blog, over at http://www.hypocrisy.nu/archives/2004/11/concern_i n_the.html - which also connects to the "legitimate" online-resellers of music, who complain about advertisements in the P2P network applications. (based on a BBC-article) My comment connects to the above, and what I think the entertainment-industry should do.
Best of luck! :)
Let's hope that things will turn out so good down there, so that he can eventually move back to his roots!!! :-) (meant in a good way)
I agree with you there, it's a bit of both worlds. Same as you can feel the oriental feel in Greece, for example. I am pro a turkish membership, when they have settled their economical and security-political obstacles, as well as the humanitarian situation. I can agree that Turkey is a huge new market to move into for European companies, more than they already have that is.
Does Turkey have any foreign debt, and if so - how much?
The salvation of Turkey is the EU, not to say how much the rest of the EU could benefit from Turkey too.
By who? The turkish government? ;-)
I'd rather go for something more value-neutral, perhaps an official EU-document of foreign affairs...
Cheers! :-)
The turks did quite a lot of damage in mainland Greece, but now the times have changed. Life goes on, ya know?! There is a difference between the people and their governments, and if you consider that Greece&Turkey were at war, the relationship have not always been the best. (My girlfriend is greek, and neither she nor other of her friends and family hold any hostile feelings against any turkish individuals for the reason of them being... turkish, so yes - I know what you mean.) The issue of the turkish invasion of Cyprus is still an infected issue, which you can see in the last referendum regarding the uniting of the south / north. I don't want to insult you, but turkey did invade cyprus, and the source you showed me were turkish, soooo :-P
This is like a respirator for the country, they can't be doing this forever... I wonder if the Turkish population realize what challenges lay a head of them...
Thank you for the link. This was back in 2000, do you think it might've changed? I can't read turkish either, and the skills I have in greek are of no help now :-P
All the "ACs" makes it hard to keep track! :-/
So, then we agree on that it's absurd! :-)
To rephrase; then it's OK that he got some kind of punishment for editing on DMOZ then?! I don't mean to be confrontative, but this is part of the very real issues at hand here.