"Netscape's legendary IPO in 1995 launched the web in the mind of the public. That jumpstart happened not much more than 2,000 days ago. In the 2,000 days since then, we have collectively created more than 3 billion public web pages. We've established twenty million web sites. Each year we send about 3.5 trillion email messages. If we could return back time a mere 6 years ago and ask anyone, even a geek, whether we could create 3 billion interactive, graphically rich, hyperlinked text pages on every subject known to humans, they would have frankly told you it was impossible. I would have told you it was impossible. Send 3 trillion emails? Where is the time even to push the send button? Who is going to pay for the creation of 3 billion web pages, each one which must be designed and coded and hosted? The economics of this don't work out. In 2,000 days? It's impossible. Yet, here at the end of a very bad year, this web is alive and still growing. It looks like a miracle.
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Why don't we see this miracle? ..." (Kevin Kelly - The Web Runs on Love, not greed)
I don't understand what is going to happen if we would see internet as a miracle. Kevin Kelly is talking as if seeing this miracle is a very useful thing to understand "something". I think it wouldn't bring anything.
4 Mayıs 2009 Pazartesi
3 Mayıs 2009 Pazar
internet freedom
There is a website which was made in order to fight for net neutrality and internet freedom. I'm not sure if they are really funny or not, however I like the way of expressing their thoughts.
wearetheweb
I wonder if Kevin Kelly watched their videos, did he laugh? When you read about someone and read his/her writings, to keep your mind away from unnecessary curiosities about that person can be really hard.
Kevin Kelly has a famous tough article called wearetheweb. Isn't it a little related to this "highly cheerful" website?
wearetheweb
I wonder if Kevin Kelly watched their videos, did he laugh? When you read about someone and read his/her writings, to keep your mind away from unnecessary curiosities about that person can be really hard.
Kevin Kelly has a famous tough article called wearetheweb. Isn't it a little related to this "highly cheerful" website?
are we the web?
Positive ideas from Kevin Kelly about the evolution of the technology and internet make me feel insufficient instead of making me motivate. Because Kelly presents the limitless form of the web and the opportunities that web gives us impressively. When I see the width of the web once again, I feel too small to effect this world. I guess Kelly tries to make people the exact opposite of my situation, however for "the third culture" people (which he describes in here), web is not something that is amazing, it is something like food or sleep. I believe the reason of my weak motivation is my addiction to the web. The experiences that are waiting for to be experienced in the web keep me away from an active contribution. People can live in internet without an afford to share, contribute, improve or add something, they can live in internet only with "using". Maybe this point is missed by Kevin Kelly or he doesn't think that third culture poeple are lazy, but we are lazy... Anyway, thanks to novelty form of web, my motivation can increase easily. sometimes.
KK Website.
KK Website.
29 Mart 2009 Pazar
One Laptop per Child
OLPC: http://laptop.org/en/
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Mission Statement: To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future."
Is it so simple? Give a laptop, change the world... I'm not sure about the functionality of this project. Of course it is good to encourage people to contribute the development process of the third world but I guess these type of projects are like annexes. People always tend to help the poor with the things like giving money, clothes or laptops. How can we provide a help for fundamentality?
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Mission Statement: To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future."
Is it so simple? Give a laptop, change the world... I'm not sure about the functionality of this project. Of course it is good to encourage people to contribute the development process of the third world but I guess these type of projects are like annexes. People always tend to help the poor with the things like giving money, clothes or laptops. How can we provide a help for fundamentality?
outline
Computer Science: Third World Vs. First World
*Definitions of Third World-First World and the situations that seperates them (Digital Divide)
*How much computer science developed in these countries (Concrete information)
*Internet Usage
*Education
*The status of free software in third world
*The approachs of First World to the Third World in computer technology
*Conclusion
*Definitions of Third World-First World and the situations that seperates them (Digital Divide)
*How much computer science developed in these countries (Concrete information)
*Internet Usage
*Education
*The status of free software in third world
*The approachs of First World to the Third World in computer technology
*Conclusion
22 Mart 2009 Pazar
What does "third world" mean?
The definition, “third world” was born during the Cold War (a military and political tension that existed between Soviet Union and the western countries [in the first instance USA], from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s). There were no first or second world definition before third world. French demographer Alfred Sauvy coined the term third world in referring to countries currently called either "developing" or "under-developed". And now the term is using to define the countries which are in the outside of the industrially developed countries (and of course a developed industry brings a developed economy, health, education and so on) which can be called the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Because of being an outsider, these countries are generally exposed to be controlled by some powerful ones. If I try to possess or absorb the etymology of the term, probably I need many things, such as larger time, a library, deeper and deeper research etc… But the general definition should satisfy me to search for a different aspect of the third world. Actually it is not hard to understand the categorization of the countries with this way but I’m not sure about the authority that decides which country is a part of the third world. These answers are a little bit helpful for me:
"http://www.wisegeek.com/who-decides-which-countries-are-part-of-the-third-world.htm"
"http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-third-world-and-why-is-it-called-that.htm"
While reading some other things about third world, I jumped to interest times of Cold War and that brought me to Iron Curtain, then I realized I make myself to go that controversial part of the history. Every event in the history are connected with each other so it is not surprising that I'm jumping here from there, there from here... Time is everything now for doing my jobs however again I’m sitting on the Berlin Wall…
"http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,,-80627,00.html"
"http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-wor3.htm"
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World"
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War"
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc"
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989"
"http://www.wisegeek.com/who-decides-which-countries-are-part-of-the-third-world.htm"
"http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-third-world-and-why-is-it-called-that.htm"
While reading some other things about third world, I jumped to interest times of Cold War and that brought me to Iron Curtain, then I realized I make myself to go that controversial part of the history. Every event in the history are connected with each other so it is not surprising that I'm jumping here from there, there from here... Time is everything now for doing my jobs however again I’m sitting on the Berlin Wall…
"http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,,-80627,00.html"
"http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-wor3.htm"
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World"
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War"
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc"
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989"
16 Mart 2009 Pazartesi
Ramanujan.
A great mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan is from India:
This means that he is from one of the "third world countries". Probably his nationality has a meaning to many people who finds important the nationalities of persons. However, I believe a nationality is a hypocrite. In this case, it looks necessary to examine the Ramanujan's life for concidering the situation between "the individuals" and "the nations" while trying to develop a main theme for my major research paper.
Young Ramanujan:
This means that he is from one of the "third world countries". Probably his nationality has a meaning to many people who finds important the nationalities of persons. However, I believe a nationality is a hypocrite. In this case, it looks necessary to examine the Ramanujan's life for concidering the situation between "the individuals" and "the nations" while trying to develop a main theme for my major research paper.
Young Ramanujan:
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