Lost Blogger again.
I don't know why only Blogger is being banned everytime. There are so many other blogging services that are just as much important, why are they never banned.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
Lift of ban on Blogger
Strangely, I completely forgot to put a post about the lift of ban on Blogger in my country. It was banned for some small reasons, and the ban stayed for quite a long time. I don't know if the lift is temporary, or will Blogger be available to m,e and my countrymen as a regular service now, but it sure is a good step.
So here's to Blogger... and the evolved Internet in general! Cheers!!
Disappointed by Yahoo! Answers
While Blogger was banned, I was quite desperate to get it back, even had to ask around for people to suggest me a (free) blogging service as resourceful as Blogger. I came across many, but the best I liked was WordPress. I even placed a question on Yahoo Answers which turn out to be a disappointment. I (think I) had placed a serious question over there, and all I could gather were three answers which didn't prove soo helpful to me.
Automated emails from Yahoo Answers rushing to my inbox wanted me to choose a best answer out of those answers. I didn't like any of the answers, so I extended the expiry time (I hope you know how Yahoo! Answers work). Someone gave one vote to one of the people who answered out of the three, and eventually my question was shut down. I'm sure Yahoo! Answers must help a lot of people with a lot of problems, but my experience didn't turn out to be so great.
So here's to Blogger... and the evolved Internet in general! Cheers!!
Disappointed by Yahoo! Answers
While Blogger was banned, I was quite desperate to get it back, even had to ask around for people to suggest me a (free) blogging service as resourceful as Blogger. I came across many, but the best I liked was WordPress. I even placed a question on Yahoo Answers which turn out to be a disappointment. I (think I) had placed a serious question over there, and all I could gather were three answers which didn't prove soo helpful to me.
Automated emails from Yahoo Answers rushing to my inbox wanted me to choose a best answer out of those answers. I didn't like any of the answers, so I extended the expiry time (I hope you know how Yahoo! Answers work). Someone gave one vote to one of the people who answered out of the three, and eventually my question was shut down. I'm sure Yahoo! Answers must help a lot of people with a lot of problems, but my experience didn't turn out to be so great.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Let's just get on with it
I've been fascinated by the power and the varying nature of the blogs on the modern life. There is simply too much to be had these days. You can never be satisfied. So is the case with information. Internet has become overwhelmingly (to the limit of the being physically and psychologically) dangerous due to the enormous information it promises.
You keep jumping from page to page, walking deep down the information superhighway, and you will soon wear yourself out. But this journey is endless. You watch thousands sites a day, I guess hundreds of thousands are being added on daily basis. I've watched it grow from a tiny seed to an unbelievably large forest. I belong to a generation that that started their teens with the birth of Internet.
I remember ignoring Google to use Yahoo, Ask Jeeves or Alta Vista. I remember a world without instant messengers. I remember a world that had ICQ as the only reasonable chatting and community-networking option available. I remember a connected world that was much limited to IRC chats, and a (still) countable number of websites of some larger corporations and companies. Personal websites were almost a non-existent concept.
In my early teens, searching information as simple as the gross domestic product of Armenia, or the tallest living tree required to have encyclopedias on CD ROMS which was a 'giant leap' from the traditional use of books. Books, I totally love, but imagine finding a specific keyword in a scores of volumes of Britannica, or trying to go through old newspapers, all of them, just to find out who did what, when!
Now that Internet is fast becoming as vital as electricity in our lives, we see a lot of change in the way people perceive and refer to Internet. You don't have to go to an Internet café or a log on to Web from a personal workstation. In stead of initiating an extra effort in establishing a formal contact with the Internet, the Internet sees its way through our lives. It's fast covering us all around. Soon, we will be all wrapped up, and we will all be covered in a blanket of connectivity - no islands, no isolated beings. Everything will change.
I've always wanted to write, and I've always enjoyed writing, but I've never been able to write something worth reading. I kept a diary at diaryland many years ago. I didn't come across the word 'blog' at that time. It was through the exponential growth of Internet that made me realize how fast things have been changing.
I'm starting this blog with the intention of writing things that are dear to me, that affect me, that influence me, that motivate me, that sadden me, that are just there in my life. I'm ready to take on the world!
You keep jumping from page to page, walking deep down the information superhighway, and you will soon wear yourself out. But this journey is endless. You watch thousands sites a day, I guess hundreds of thousands are being added on daily basis. I've watched it grow from a tiny seed to an unbelievably large forest. I belong to a generation that that started their teens with the birth of Internet.
I remember ignoring Google to use Yahoo, Ask Jeeves or Alta Vista. I remember a world without instant messengers. I remember a world that had ICQ as the only reasonable chatting and community-networking option available. I remember a connected world that was much limited to IRC chats, and a (still) countable number of websites of some larger corporations and companies. Personal websites were almost a non-existent concept.
In my early teens, searching information as simple as the gross domestic product of Armenia, or the tallest living tree required to have encyclopedias on CD ROMS which was a 'giant leap' from the traditional use of books. Books, I totally love, but imagine finding a specific keyword in a scores of volumes of Britannica, or trying to go through old newspapers, all of them, just to find out who did what, when!
Now that Internet is fast becoming as vital as electricity in our lives, we see a lot of change in the way people perceive and refer to Internet. You don't have to go to an Internet café or a log on to Web from a personal workstation. In stead of initiating an extra effort in establishing a formal contact with the Internet, the Internet sees its way through our lives. It's fast covering us all around. Soon, we will be all wrapped up, and we will all be covered in a blanket of connectivity - no islands, no isolated beings. Everything will change.
I've always wanted to write, and I've always enjoyed writing, but I've never been able to write something worth reading. I kept a diary at diaryland many years ago. I didn't come across the word 'blog' at that time. It was through the exponential growth of Internet that made me realize how fast things have been changing.
I'm starting this blog with the intention of writing things that are dear to me, that affect me, that influence me, that motivate me, that sadden me, that are just there in my life. I'm ready to take on the world!
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