Posts Tagged ‘China’
google is a country: indeed
February 1st, 2010 by lifeproof
I thought that this topic would have already been saturated in the blogosphere and the social-media-sphere, but in contrary, except for The Huffington Post and The Guardian almost no other outstanding media has issued the subject.
Alan Rusbridger from The Guardian reports:
Google is not a country. Eric Schmidt – who would be prime minister if it was [...]
Tags: Advertising Age, Alan Rusbridger, Chad Hurley, China, Craig Newmark, David Drummond, Davos, Davos Economic Forum, Eric Schmidt, existence of virtual beings, Google, Google is a country, Google vs. China, Googledom, Hal Varian, Marissa Mayer, Newspaper Association of America, Nikesh Arora, Pew Research Center, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, UC Berkeley, virtual existence, virtual existence of real beings
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles
virtual protest march on google maps
January 26th, 2010 by lifeproof
I have written an article on the dispute between Google and China for a Turkish newspaper the last week. I stated that The Great Firewall of China was not much different than the firewall that the Turkish conservative government has built around us. When I first returned to Turkey this summer after spending two years [...]
Tags: AKP, ban on YouTube, bobiler.org, China, Google, Google Docs, google maps, Istanbul, New York, New York City, ReadWriteWeb, Tayyip Erdogan, The Great Firewall of China, Turkey, virtual protest, virtual protest march, YouTube
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PinPoint
Tayyip ♥ Mahmoud
October 28th, 2009 by lifeproof
The Guardian was very surprised to hear from Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan to say that Iran (Mahmoud Ahmedinejad) is a friend of Turkey. It is quite surprising for me to see that they are surprised at this statement. This friendship was obvious, inevitable–and to be fair: quite logical.
I have been saying continuously, even before all [...]
Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Democratic initiative, Iran, Israel, Kurdish, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Mesopotamia, Russia, Syria, Tayyip Erdogan, Tehran, the East, the EU, The Guardian, the West, Turkey
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles
Globureaucracy
October 15th, 2009 by lifeproof
Bureaucracy is a global notion appears in different forms and styles around the world, but basically it is the same thing–a dead-end. Jan Bannings, a Dutch photographer born from Dutch-East-Indies parents, has come up with a photo project with a question: what does this bureaucracy look like?
So, he got up and traveled around the world [...]
Tags: Bolivia, bureaucracy, Bureaucratics, China, Dutch, France, Germany, Heather Murphy, Holland, India, Jan Bannings, Liberia, NPR, Photography, Russia, The Stadthaus, Ulm, USA, Yemen
Posted in PhotoMorphosis