hey mates!
Its the end of vacation and im back at campus.
No more scary strikers and South Africa, Durban is having its coldest spring yet.
All the rain makes me very hungry and sleepy.
Have to be very focused now since exams are around the corner... and more importantly my Birthday lol. (**,)
The Freedom of Expression
We control the media, it is a weapon used to deffend us, a shield used to protect us. We have the right to be as free as bird in expressing what we feel to the world, lets use that right and not abuse it. Celebrate the freedom of expression
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
spring brake one...!
Hey mates! (**,) ...
I'm kinda missing you guys n campus a little. My computer is down so it will be impossible to upload my vacation picture, I'm using my blackberry for time been. I'm having such a relaxed time at home with my mum and gran.
I go for driving lessons now and I plan to get my licence very soon... I hope. I'm looking forward to going back to campus and meeting my friends and also get back on track with my blogging.
Miss you guys. Mwha. Take care mates n always play it safe (-^,)
I'm kinda missing you guys n campus a little. My computer is down so it will be impossible to upload my vacation picture, I'm using my blackberry for time been. I'm having such a relaxed time at home with my mum and gran.
I go for driving lessons now and I plan to get my licence very soon... I hope. I'm looking forward to going back to campus and meeting my friends and also get back on track with my blogging.
Miss you guys. Mwha. Take care mates n always play it safe (-^,)
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
SUBMISSION OF NEWS ARTICLE...!
hey friends!
Before I tell about our article... I need to express my joy for this beautiful South African weather we having. Gosh... to feel the sweat run down your back, everything shine in the pure summer sun is amazing. The only thing missing is the soccer world cup spirit. Truly... everyday I have this craving to go and dive into the Indian ocean and let the icy water and warm sun take me to a heavenly place of unlimited pleasure.
Today my group and I posted the final copy of our news article on the "Google- China war". I do not have a copy of hand for you guys to view but as soon as I can get one I will publish it. The final copy was a master piece since Yuvetha put in all her hard work in editing it. Irshaad worked extra hard on our bibliography. Finally we three put our drafts together from all our research, got our bibliography done on zotero and edited it..., we had the perfect article ever.
Our tutor, Joe helped a lot as well, since he viewed our work and commented as well as suggested ways to improve our shortcomings. today is our last tutorial for the term. We go on vocation. Yay!!! SPRING BRAKE! ... I will post all my holiday pictures up for you to see.
Before I tell about our article... I need to express my joy for this beautiful South African weather we having. Gosh... to feel the sweat run down your back, everything shine in the pure summer sun is amazing. The only thing missing is the soccer world cup spirit. Truly... everyday I have this craving to go and dive into the Indian ocean and let the icy water and warm sun take me to a heavenly place of unlimited pleasure.
Today my group and I posted the final copy of our news article on the "Google- China war". I do not have a copy of hand for you guys to view but as soon as I can get one I will publish it. The final copy was a master piece since Yuvetha put in all her hard work in editing it. Irshaad worked extra hard on our bibliography. Finally we three put our drafts together from all our research, got our bibliography done on zotero and edited it..., we had the perfect article ever.
Our tutor, Joe helped a lot as well, since he viewed our work and commented as well as suggested ways to improve our shortcomings. today is our last tutorial for the term. We go on vocation. Yay!!! SPRING BRAKE! ... I will post all my holiday pictures up for you to see.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
to all my muslim followers!!!
TO ALL MY MUSLIM FREEDOM FIGHTERS... EID MUBARAAK!
HAVE A BLESSED DAY... celebrate religion.
to all my hindu followers!!!
To all my hindu freedom fighters... I WOULD LIKE TO WISH YOU A HAPPY GANESH CHATURTI.
HAVE A BLESSED DAY... celebrate religion.
HAVE A BLESSED DAY... celebrate religion.
the 9/11 attacks!!!
hey mates!!!
For all you guys who have been keeping up with current affairs..., do you think that it is fair for the HOLY KORAN to be burnt in order to commemorate those who suffered the acttacks!!! please friends, take the quiz on the side and let me no!!! All views are welcome!
For all you guys who have been keeping up with current affairs..., do you think that it is fair for the HOLY KORAN to be burnt in order to commemorate those who suffered the acttacks!!! please friends, take the quiz on the side and let me no!!! All views are welcome!
interesting article... our back up article
GOOGLE – CHINA WAR!
GOOGLE CLOSES DOWN OPERATIONS IN CHINA AND RE- ROUTING ITS CHINESE USER TO THE GOOGLE BASE IN HONG KONG!
Google has now decided to completely shut down operations in China, since Google did not wish to censor there search results as the Chinese government demanded. Google is now automatically redirecting their Chinese consumers from google.cn to Google Search in the hosted pages of Hong Kong.
Information which the Chinese government feels should be blocked and censored to Chinese citizens are still occurring but now the onus falls in the Chinese government to censor and block which ever informational they feel is inappropriate, Google refuses to do so itself anymore. China has the most sophisticated censorship systems on the planet. Policemen and women are employed by the thousands to keep a watchful eye on all of China’s web activity. They also have a vast amount of automated systems to watch blogs as well as other banned sites and subjects.
Google has cooperated with Chinese government's restrictions for 4 long years, but said that it had a change of mind after discovering a computer hacking attack which Google traced to China. Google lost intellectual property in this attack and also discovered that the attack was directed at GMail accounts of all human rights activists. This made Google take a second look at the feasibility of all its Chinese operations.
The decision by Google to re-route its Chinese Google users to Hong Kong is a greatly welcomed decision by Hong Kong. Chinese official are not as enthusiastic about it, since they feel that Google has violated certain written promises which both Google and the Chinese government agreed on when negotiations were first held to offer Goggle internet search to China. “This is totally wrong. We’re uncompromisingly opposed to the politicization of commercial issues, and express our discontent and indignation to Google for its unreasonable accusations and conducts,” a spokesman was heard saying on Xinhua news agency, quoted by the BBC. http://www.directtrafficmedia.co.uk/News/Google_Defy_China_Breaking_Censorship_Agreement_13236651956.html
Google's head legal advisor, David Drummond, said that by providing uncensored search from Google.com.hk was a very sensible solution to the difficulties and challenges they had to face and that it is entirely legal and will increase the access to information for the Google users in China. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8581393.stm Google hopes that the Chinese government will respect their choice and are well aware of the fact that the Chinese governments can block access to their information and services any time. David Drummond, also added, Google will monitor access and provide updates regularly via a page to show what was available via Google’s services in the mainland of China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8581393.stm
http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/991956/China-claims-Google-violated-agreement/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_google_china
GOOGLE CLOSES DOWN OPERATIONS IN CHINA AND RE- ROUTING ITS CHINESE USER TO THE GOOGLE BASE IN HONG KONG!
Google has now decided to completely shut down operations in China, since Google did not wish to censor there search results as the Chinese government demanded. Google is now automatically redirecting their Chinese consumers from google.cn to Google Search in the hosted pages of Hong Kong.
Information which the Chinese government feels should be blocked and censored to Chinese citizens are still occurring but now the onus falls in the Chinese government to censor and block which ever informational they feel is inappropriate, Google refuses to do so itself anymore. China has the most sophisticated censorship systems on the planet. Policemen and women are employed by the thousands to keep a watchful eye on all of China’s web activity. They also have a vast amount of automated systems to watch blogs as well as other banned sites and subjects.
Google has cooperated with Chinese government's restrictions for 4 long years, but said that it had a change of mind after discovering a computer hacking attack which Google traced to China. Google lost intellectual property in this attack and also discovered that the attack was directed at GMail accounts of all human rights activists. This made Google take a second look at the feasibility of all its Chinese operations.
The decision by Google to re-route its Chinese Google users to Hong Kong is a greatly welcomed decision by Hong Kong. Chinese official are not as enthusiastic about it, since they feel that Google has violated certain written promises which both Google and the Chinese government agreed on when negotiations were first held to offer Goggle internet search to China. “This is totally wrong. We’re uncompromisingly opposed to the politicization of commercial issues, and express our discontent and indignation to Google for its unreasonable accusations and conducts,” a spokesman was heard saying on Xinhua news agency, quoted by the BBC. http://www.directtrafficmedia.co.uk/News/Google_Defy_China_Breaking_Censorship_Agreement_13236651956.html
Google's head legal advisor, David Drummond, said that by providing uncensored search from Google.com.hk was a very sensible solution to the difficulties and challenges they had to face and that it is entirely legal and will increase the access to information for the Google users in China. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8581393.stm Google hopes that the Chinese government will respect their choice and are well aware of the fact that the Chinese governments can block access to their information and services any time. David Drummond, also added, Google will monitor access and provide updates regularly via a page to show what was available via Google’s services in the mainland of China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8581393.stm
http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/991956/China-claims-Google-violated-agreement/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_google_china
our article
Google in China
The internet search engine giant Google, has been in a fiercely contested censorship battle with the Chinese governments over the content, security and privacy of the Google search engine. In 2005 Google was officially launched in China under the leadership of Kai-Fu Lee, a leading microsoft executive. It endured for 4 years before the Chinese government blocked access to Google's youtube site and other services offerred by the internet giants such as their gmail service. Soon after the block of the Google services, Kai-Fu Lee breaks away from Google and goes to the rival Chinese search engine Baidu which is made in accordance with the Chinese censorship laws.
In march 2010, Google decided to redirect all internet traffic in the Chinese mainland through the Hong Kong servers. Hong Kong is a special administrive region in China and therefore its censorship rights tend to favour freedom of speech and expression more so than the traditional Chinese censorships laws.
There is speculations that the Chinese government originally blocked off the Google services and search parameters due to the content that the Google search engine encompasses. Intermet websites that contain pornographic material is banned in the country and since they are included within the Google search, the Chinese government felt that it was necessary to block the search engine from operating within the country. This controversy over the freedom of expression and the right to express any material has sparked a world wide debate on the censorship rights that a state has over its internet usage and control.
Google popularity in China has greatly decreased in the past few years and it no longer enjoys a majority of usage in the country. Baidu now controls over 63% of the internet share in the country, almost double the usage of Google, however analysts are sceptical of the future of the quality of search engine in the country, should Google pull out of the country it is expected that their will be a decline in the need for Baidu to be innovative and creative with their product and this will lead to a deteoration of the search engine.
The internet search engine giant Google, has been in a fiercely contested censorship battle with the Chinese governments over the content, security and privacy of the Google search engine. In 2005 Google was officially launched in China under the leadership of Kai-Fu Lee, a leading microsoft executive. It endured for 4 years before the Chinese government blocked access to Google's youtube site and other services offerred by the internet giants such as their gmail service. Soon after the block of the Google services, Kai-Fu Lee breaks away from Google and goes to the rival Chinese search engine Baidu which is made in accordance with the Chinese censorship laws.
In march 2010, Google decided to redirect all internet traffic in the Chinese mainland through the Hong Kong servers. Hong Kong is a special administrive region in China and therefore its censorship rights tend to favour freedom of speech and expression more so than the traditional Chinese censorships laws.
There is speculations that the Chinese government originally blocked off the Google services and search parameters due to the content that the Google search engine encompasses. Intermet websites that contain pornographic material is banned in the country and since they are included within the Google search, the Chinese government felt that it was necessary to block the search engine from operating within the country. This controversy over the freedom of expression and the right to express any material has sparked a world wide debate on the censorship rights that a state has over its internet usage and control.
Google popularity in China has greatly decreased in the past few years and it no longer enjoys a majority of usage in the country. Baidu now controls over 63% of the internet share in the country, almost double the usage of Google, however analysts are sceptical of the future of the quality of search engine in the country, should Google pull out of the country it is expected that their will be a decline in the need for Baidu to be innovative and creative with their product and this will lead to a deteoration of the search engine.
Friday, September 10, 2010
my internet studies lectures...
hey mates!
Last week Firday we had such an interesting lecture on how to use openshot, which is a programme used to create slide shows. Wow! It was so awesome! I felt like a Hollywood producer lol! Its also a bit tricky and so my first attempt was a bit disfuctional lol...hahaha ..., but hey!... atleast i tried. Thembisa (our lecturer) showed us a lot of fun ways of using openshot and how we can experiment with new designs, styles, titles and elements. Its not soooooooooo hard making a movie now lol!.
Our topic was freedom of expression... which by now you may have figured is the theme of our course in internet studies. We had to collect alot of pictures on freedom and make a slide show, with our own music choice. As you guys know... I picked the song "waving flag" by Knaan. I feel that, that song is the essence of freedom. especially in South Africa.
Our double lecture on Wednesday was cancelled due to a strike on campus. I was so proud that people stood up for their rights, but was sad that some turned to violence. Remember guys, let history not repeat itself. We dont need another uprsing. We should spread love and not shed blood!!!. It is our constitutional right to strike but not harm.
We should all practice Ghandiji's "SATHYAGARA".
Last week Firday we had such an interesting lecture on how to use openshot, which is a programme used to create slide shows. Wow! It was so awesome! I felt like a Hollywood producer lol! Its also a bit tricky and so my first attempt was a bit disfuctional lol...hahaha ..., but hey!... atleast i tried. Thembisa (our lecturer) showed us a lot of fun ways of using openshot and how we can experiment with new designs, styles, titles and elements. Its not soooooooooo hard making a movie now lol!.
Our topic was freedom of expression... which by now you may have figured is the theme of our course in internet studies. We had to collect alot of pictures on freedom and make a slide show, with our own music choice. As you guys know... I picked the song "waving flag" by Knaan. I feel that, that song is the essence of freedom. especially in South Africa.
Our double lecture on Wednesday was cancelled due to a strike on campus. I was so proud that people stood up for their rights, but was sad that some turned to violence. Remember guys, let history not repeat itself. We dont need another uprsing. We should spread love and not shed blood!!!. It is our constitutional right to strike but not harm.
We should all practice Ghandiji's "SATHYAGARA".
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
THE ESSENCE OF FREEDOM
hey mates!!!
let me put you to ease... hahaha! the song I picked was "Waving flag" by Knaan.
I feel that that song has the essence of freedom as well as South Africa in it.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
smiles...!
Hey friends!
I just got it! the perfect song. Sorry I cannot tell you guys... you have to wait till I post the slide show up. I just had to tell you that at 23:10 on a cold Tuesday night the perfect track paid me a visit.! (**,)whooopa!
I just got it! the perfect song. Sorry I cannot tell you guys... you have to wait till I post the slide show up. I just had to tell you that at 23:10 on a cold Tuesday night the perfect track paid me a visit.! (**,)whooopa!
help guys!!!!
hey all my awesome friends!
How are all of you doing on this cold South African day!!!
Brrrr! I am cold and in need of some freshly made coffee.
I have so much of work to do since we have to submit a draft copy of our news article in our next tutorial. I am having so much fun with this course, This week in our tutorial we are going to make a slide show. It is so exciting. Expressing our views in our own unique ways. I like this idea because its so creative and new. Now guys i need yop to suggest some great songs for me, for the slide show. I was thinking about "we are the world" by Micheal Jackson or the remake of it. I also liked the heart beat track from the hindi movie Kal Ho Naa Ho... its a very emotional track. HELP GUYS!!!
How are all of you doing on this cold South African day!!!
Brrrr! I am cold and in need of some freshly made coffee.
I have so much of work to do since we have to submit a draft copy of our news article in our next tutorial. I am having so much fun with this course, This week in our tutorial we are going to make a slide show. It is so exciting. Expressing our views in our own unique ways. I like this idea because its so creative and new. Now guys i need yop to suggest some great songs for me, for the slide show. I was thinking about "we are the world" by Micheal Jackson or the remake of it. I also liked the heart beat track from the hindi movie Kal Ho Naa Ho... its a very emotional track. HELP GUYS!!!
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