Today a friend introduced me ‘new’ (moi-4 months techno-retarded person:) tag meta search engine Fetch based in San Fransico. TagFetch can search multiple tag sites from one location: includes Flickr, YouTube,  del.icio.us, Technorati, Feedster, Ice Rocket, Topix, Digg and Google Blogs.  Type some word, name, term, something – i got  search information “Server timed out try again.” (maybe I was too demanding)

Tomorrow and on Sunday, who can jump to the main spot in Belgrade (during this week) can meet tomorrow in Hall 1 Arena presentation of US embassy programme as well some authors from USA (prof. David Carr from UNC-SILS).

Not that bad, actually GREAT. Me and Day. Hailing the taxi (fighting with a yuppie for it), through the jungle of streets to get on time. All well done, words ran like a river(: And USEful information before ’speech/paper book presentation/critics/defence/Q&A’ in the morning (that’s why blogs exsist, thanks PJ). In more than hour and a half and after my perfect and ‘clarifying’ speech – ‘we’ could learn from some Serbian academic experts: following: electronic publications (published by major publishers) and open access archives/Dl’s/repositories, are not “scientifically” verified, also that i was ‘using’ too much of ‘Google’ term (scholar, SE, all services) in the paper, that people who (in all professional areas) use Google Scholar services are ’suspicious’ and information is ”not valid”, ”verified”, etc. As well as quoting ‘we do not know how ‘these and this’ people are world wide IT experts’. And my sentences/phrases have ‘flaws’ ( I found ‘theirs” later on, so formal and burocratic). Though I was commended on my semantics and pioneer research work (:). Seems like formalism is taking over the ‘role’ over the content (in this case), and all constructive ideas, issues, posted questions to overcome the current situation fell into the water. Form is what matters (for some of us). I didn’t even had a chance to mention or say L, and Linux as a primer…and being interrupted. For many issues.  Countires in transition functionate like this. Unfortunately. My time is coming and I really do not bother for formalities, non-academic behaviour, as well as for tomorrows voting for new serbian constitution. I’m looking for a decent publisher now(:

After all, I did PERFECT and constructive thing today, and those souls in the audience who understood what I was talking about – came after with a smile, for a handshake and few positive and creative comments(: And i DID wear my jeans pants and had my new ‘old’ stunning haircut:) B&B.

From GNU Linux Center in Belgrade: GNU center started realization of the project that is aimed to train small group students of journalism and independent journalist in blogging about activities in their communities.  Bloggers will have their own sites and will be trained how to use blogs, make them searchable and accessible for people with special needs.   They will be trained on ethics of journalism and democratic moderation of their blogs. Workshop will last 3 days and this weekend I was invited to give a little ‘contribution’ (as an old blogger, now in 5th series), help /train/direct them with my blogging modest experience(:

I made a raw wiki page just for the professors, colleagues, friends, people (who participated in research directly/indirectly) aborad and those who cannot come or will not be at Friday morning to listen to my research paper defence. As i’m preparing presentation and speech, you may post, ask, add questions considering these topics.

Talking about Internet usage, here’s the latest results of The Centre for Reseach of IT’s of Belgrade Open School (CePIT), under the study ” Internet Penetration in Serbia 2006″. You can donwload the survey, results and other free eBooks on similar issues.