One Day Without Google
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One Day Without GoogleTue, 17 Jan 2012 08:46:13 +0000http://backend.userland.com/rss092enStop SOPA/PIPAYou may have heard people talking/blogging/twittering about SOPA — the Stop Online Piracy Act. The recent SOPA-related boycott of GoDaddy was all over the news, with many people expressing their outrage over the possibilities of SOPA, but when I ask people about SOPA and its sister bill in the Senate, ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/stop-sopapipa/
Memory Works Differently in the Age of Google!Since the advent of search engines, we are reorganizing the way we remember things,” said Sparrow. “Our brains rely on the Internet for memory in much the same way they rely on the memory of a friend, family member or co-worker. We remember less through knowing information itself than by ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/memory-works-differently-in-the-age-of-google/
The new shit: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving GraceA series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines we have built. Although we don't realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
imdb.com
2011 BBC production by Alan Curtis
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/the-new-shit-all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/
Is Google.cn the new Gleiwitz incident?On January the 12th Google announces on it's official blog that their and other companies' servers have been the target of sophisticated attacks from China. In the Google Inc official statement there's not much information concerning these attacks. Were they real? There is no evidence on this matter.
Like many other ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/is-googlecn-the-new-gleiwitz-incident/
Connectivity & Devices = Democracy?Evgeny Morozov - How the Net aids dictatorships, watch the keynote below
Who is Evgeny Morozov?
Writer Evgeny Morozov studies the political and social aspects of the Internet. Right now, he's working on a book about the Internet's role in politics -- and especially how the Web influences civic engagement and regime stability ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/connectivity-devices-democracy/
One day with John Zorn on Ljubljana Jazz FestivalJohn Zorn is a man of metropolis, a men who suits the relation with the other above us, from the 34th floor. It gives him the joy of the first meet, the discovery of one's being through the eyes of the interlocutor.
Muzicadevest.ro (which means West Music and it's another website of ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/one-day-with-john-zorn-on-ljubljana-jazz-festival/
Freedom of speech in IranWhy only one day without google? Maybe because the rest of the days in the year we really need Google and the services it provides us.
Let's see some Google Search Results:
Results 1 - 10 of about 647,000,000 for iran street fight june 2009. (0.38 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/freedom-of-speech-in-iran/
What is a browser?Maybe a browser is Google! Or maybe is Yahoo! Or even Bing! Well, let's ask Wolfram Alpfa!
But maybe is better if we ask some people
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/what-is-a-browser/
About Google Chrome Vs. PrivacyBeing a OS X user, I didn't get to test Google Chrome until now. Although, as I have read about it in tutorials and seen on You Tube, I could conclude that Google Chrome is a useless application, it doesn't bring anything new, it does not create and does not ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/about-google-chrome-vs-privacy/
Enemy of the enemy, Google Squared vs Wolfram|AlphaThe war of the answer engines, searchology, Google Squared vs. Wolfram|Alpha.
What is Google Squared?
"Google Squared is launching later this month in labs. Google Squared returns search results in a spreadsheet format. It structures the unstructured data on web pages. So a search for Small Dogs returns results with ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/enemy-of-the-enemy-google-squared-vs-wolframalpha/
Wolfram|Alpha will be the Google killer?The next "Google killer", Wolfram|Alpha service from the creator of Mathematica & the New Kind of Science, Stephan Wolfram, will be launched in next days. According to Stephen Wolfram, the goal of Alpha is to give everyone access to expert knowledge and the data that a specialist would be able to compute ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/wolframalpha-will-be-the-google-killer/
Stop the Big Brother StateConcerning one of our last post about the initiative of EU parliament to lock up the Internet, we present a short movie of David Scharf.
"We believe, that people willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither or loose both" .
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/stop-the-big-brother-state/
Google policy or googlization of politics?In an impoverished Germany by the war, with a Versailles convention which imposed very tough conditions as war damage and with a severe economic crisis, it was not a hard thing for Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - NSDAP) to acquire the power. ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/google-policy-or-googlization-of-politics/
Privacy MattersA short movie about our lives. 10 minutes. Do you feel free?
Unfortunately, YouTube, part of Google corporation, don't permit to emebed the subtitle for this awsome short movie. You must see it with English subtitle HERE. Hunger for traffic? :)
Later Edit: Sorry Google, I fix it! :) But I ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/privacy-matters/
The Times They Are A-Changin’Don't let the EU parliament lock up the Internet! It will be no way back! Act now!
Internet access is not conditional.
On Tuesday, April 21st at 20:00, the ITRE report of the Telecoms Package, rapported by Catherine Trautmann, will come to a vote in the ITRE (Industry, TRansport, Energy) committee.
It may reintroduce amendment ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/the-times-they-are-a-changin/
Google Earnings for 1st Quarter for 2009Crisis? What crisis?
2009 Q1 Google Earnings Slides
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/google-earnings-for-1st-quarter-for-2009/
The human music of the InternetThe Internet hasn't got a symphony yet.
It deserves one? Of course, it does!
Made by humans with passion and real instruments. You can watch their YouTube channel, here, will perform today at Carnegie Hall.
Take a look:
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/the-human-music-of-the-internet/
The Message for HumanityFounded in my bookmarks; so let's prepare for weekend.
Our set of values: respect, compassion, altruism, integrity, tolerance, care, be free, be patient, speak UP, be YOU.
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/the-message-for-humanity/
Future Google weaknessesYesterday, we posted a study about how Google works. In last days of March, the same research company, Faber Novel, presented another study called "Why Could Google Die", about the weaknesses and threats of Google.
Legal threat;
Internal weakness;
Strategic threats;
Other threat.
Antitrust, copyright infringement, inability to control points of entry, privacy concern are ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/future-google-weaknesses/
How Google works and his model of businessWe must know how Google conducts his social business and the model of development of his services.
You will find the answers of some big questions:
Why won't Google be affected by the crisis?
Why does Microsoft fears of Google?
Why is Google buying satellites?
Why is Google stealing our voices?
How Google wants to compete ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/how-google-works-and-his-model-of-business/
How and when I felt Miles Davis! An example of A Day Without Google!Since the beginning of 18th of march i was overwhelmed with emotions, waiting to see and hear Wayne Shorter. The three hours road to Budapest seemed to last 50. After we parked, we took a short tour of the surroundings to find a restaurant, so we went to Bohema, a ...
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Google’s jokes? Anyone?!What kind of relationship we have with Google?
You can do a search and come up with literally hundreds of Microsoft jokes. There are Linux jokes. There are Unix jokes. There are Cisco jokes. IBM jokes. There are even jokes about bloggers.So how come there aren’t any jokes about Google?
Is Google’s ...
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“Google can terminate your account for any reason…”A story about force and humans:
Like most Americans, I use Google's search engine several times a day without so much as a second thought. It was only in 2007 that my company's relationship with Google, Inc. temporarily escalated to that of a full-fledged customer, when Think Computer Corporation became yet ...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/google-can-terminate-your-account-for-any-reason/
The WunderKid - brand of Google?!Jonathan Krohn, a kid without childhood? The WunderKid?
I doubt about it.
Parents, you can be proud of him! America, here is your son!
Glorify him and lead us to glory ride...
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/the-wunderkid-brand-of-google/
Usability pie of Google’s servicesI found this representation of how Google Search Engine is used.
Google is our master language teacher and in same time our "femme fatale"? Can we be serious?
http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/usability-pie-of-googles-services/