Boss in the scene: We are all hunted!

wearehunted.com is a platform that brings emerging songs and new artists that you may not even hear of them in radios or TVs. It  became my new addiction and cyber-spiritual channel to the music. Good productions, excellent songs and joyful interface... Simply create your account and start discovering new songs, form your own playlists and share with your friends.

Sometimes if you are lucky, you can download free Mp3 of emerging singles.

Bon appetite!

What is going on in the backyard?

The following video give information about our caring friends Facebook and Google, and their act behind us.

I m afraid to break all my eggs!

We  have everything in one basket: search engine (google) & mail account (gmail) & videos (youtube) & online documents (google docs) &Bookmarks-passwords (google sync)& photo albums (picasa) & blogs (blogspot) & music (google music) and now Chromebook which collects them all! For what cost? Is it for free? No! in exchange of a copy of your data and tracks of you on the web. The company gains billions of $$ by the cumulation of this tiny data of people. Yes, they are used for semantic algorithms to provide you "better" service and for "customized" advertising. However, it massively infiltrates to our privacy... Here, I want to talk about all the eggs in one basket and the alternatives.

As you see, Google is the huge basket here and it freaks me out day by day! I need to reduce to risk of losing my data like videos, favorite links, documents... Backup is important since everything s been dragged into the web. Only think I can do right now is to back up to my USB storage device. But it is getting difficult since it is hard to convert online docs to offline formats adn maintain periodically. Due to the fact that Google is inevitable checkpoint on web, I cannot think of another solution without comprimising our privacy. So, what I can think of as an alternative solution is existance of a back-up online service which watches me in internet ( like google) and other than keep tracking my path, also saving my data on alternative cloud storage account (this program can be a browser). So, in any case, if I may hacked or lost data by server crashes or close my google account, I can reach them all. It should not be a sub-company of Google, since it is the only one who knows everything about me, thus, it can be a rival company. Since Google "obeys" the government regulations about privacy and we trust it (the common trust we have to huge coporations), this alternative company can be a coperation which is also subject to the same regulations and as big as to gain our trust. From another point of view, it is also a advantage for that company which will have leverage to compete with Google within the same level. I do not like to share my privacy with third parties but inevitably Google had me, so it s no problem if  another big company (like Microsoft) also had my data. Since it should be a competitive market, google's monopolistic position has been ruining the game. If rivalry boosts up again, it would be better for the market and consumers- as defined in the marketing books. I love to be optimistic:)

It is a fact that Google has control of everything. What we should know that they still need us, and we need to act responsibly considering the society as much as ourselves. Dont put all your eggs in one basket!


What are the next topics:

- I hope this eating little fish competition has an end, and we have to see new big players in the scene. Big boys! let the kids grow up!

- I hate to see a facebook comment pane including my name and pic in every web site I surfed! Hey, when has my privacy that much exposed?

- Everyday, data are piling up! who can manage it effectively and extract useful info out of it will be the new king!

Museum of angels

In spite of everything that I have been astonished in Barcelona, the museum of motorcycle was one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited. In this place, you can join to the dreams of designers of these forgotten brands. The place helps you to have a quick tour in history, and let you live for a while into those dreams. Every piece has unique characteristic if you look deep in details of crafting and designs. In addition to that, the wallpapers presents old commercials and brief information about those brands. Here is my photo album of this fascinating place. It was taken a little bit careless, sorry for that.

You can find name tags of motorcycles and some of the wallpapers in this album. Click here for the museum of angels.

Choosing the shortest way from A to B

We ve been thought the ways of going from A to B by the shortest way. We have learned that it is the solution to the problem. There have been always one problem, one solution. You have been judged by the consequence of your solution. Even if the way of solution was phenomenal, it was "worthless" unless you give the only result.

Now look at us, look at the society, look others faces... They are point B, and your thoughts about  them are point A.  We try to judge them by the shortest way, in which by looking their outfit, color, religion, beliefs, and others' words. Because we have been thought that this is the solution. But we do not know about the alternative, the longest, the hardest way. Maybe it will reveal unseen beauties on the way of destination B. Maybe it will unveil your secret power of empathy and humanity. Even though it is rather harder, but at the end, you will know a person as it is... You will see the unseen...
Please dont be the short-cutter, unless you want to live within others mouth cuddling to your prejudgments.

Zotero: Cite without type

Where were you when I was struggling with lots of pages of references in Word, typing all of them accordingly and losing them when I work in different PCs? But I m glad finally I met you Zotero!

Considering the dramatic entrance, you most probably understand that this tool is a life saver for who deals with academic writings like papers, articles, thesis etc. It simply retrieves the references online and embed it on your study. It also stores these reference logs in your account, so you cannot lose unless intentionally delete them. You can choose the style of referencing such as IEEE, APA, Oxford and many other styles.
When you searched a paper on google or in a journal, an icon next to your address bar appears indicating that you can retrieve that paper's referencing infotmation. Then, in MS Word, you can select retrieved reference and add whereever you need. It also have ability for auto-organizing the numbering of reference list. It helps you to get rid of a great burden of typing, editing and organizing the references, and enables mobility of your reference lists. That s a huge relief. I strongly recommend this tool or substitutes that are as practical as this is.
Please visit their web site to learn many other features and more information: Zotero

We are all criminals, sort of...

Not every crime is defined in the laws. After all, our conscience and moral values are the source for its definition at the first place. Thus, my conscience let me feel like a criminal after I watched this video. Dont you?
Please watch other storyofstuff.org videos just to feel more guilty, or in other words, to see behind the walls.