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Slovenia and especially Ljubljana is very famous for it’s upgrade of Burek, called Pizza Burek. But this doesn’t seem to stop innovative locals to start selling something called Pizza in a cone (sl. Pizza kornet). It’s essentially your ice-cream cone, stuffed with cheese and ham in layers and then heated for 8 minutes. Since it […]
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For a while now (a few days at least), we haven’t seen a lot of famous Twitter fail whale, that appears when their servers are failing. Happily enough, other services like Facebook and Jaiku are starting to fail. Jaiku has a really nice graphic: Â While on the other hand, Facebook takes the whole event […]
Most of my readers are by now probably already aware of Wordle, Java applet, that allows neat visualization tags. Given that Zemanta released early alpha API preview recently, I was looking for a fun project to showcase some of it. So for this experiment I’m going to try to visualize some of the popular classic […]
Image via Wikipedia A few days agoo Vimeo, popular service for video hosting, announced on their staff blog, that they’re no longer going to allow gaming videos on their service. The full policy of their removal is: The Vimeo staff has decided that we are no longer going to allow gaming videos on Vimeo. Specifically, […]
Wikimania 2008 was a blast. Here are just a few more bits of information that didn’t have a place in other posts. Image via Wikipedia Cool projects PediaPress is a project that allows you to turn Wikipedia pages into actual books. They have an open-source MediaWiki extension, so you can run this on your own […]
Image via Wikipedia What is Wikimedia Commons:  Central resource for Wikimedia Wiki – anyone can edit, be bold, etc. Media – it’s not text, it’s especially images Multilingual – all the languages inside the single wiki Free Content – all the files are availalbe under Free Licenses Community – lots of people who consider […]
Image by Harshad Sharma via Flickr Free Software Definition  The freedom to:  Use software for any purpose (libra, not gratis) Study and modify Distribute copies to others Collabroate and share your changes  Read more at the FSF page: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html  Free Software is really about Control. Communications technologies that we use have […]
Image by fataetoile /Cinzia via Flickr What is political participation: Â Collaborate for a common constructive objective Practice and defend freedom of speech Freely meet and engage with people and causes Discuss in order to obtain census Engage in non-economic initiatives Consume with responsibility Watch the watchers [and much more..] Â Voting from time to […]
Image by Capture Queen â„¢ via Flickr Wikipedia, 10million articles and lots of articles. Isn’t that enough, so why would we need other wiki’s?  Wikipedia is not a lot of heap of things – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT  So what do you do with these things?  Wikimedia has educational goal. There is another company Wikia, […]
Image via Wikipedia Wikinews is:  Easy A type of document you see every day Goal of NPOV and professionalism Balance through diversity The option to do news briefs  Writing your first articles First start with a synthesis article. You gather multiple independent sources and read them, then use this to write the story […]