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.

Recent Stanford University study of internet addiction showed, (according to slashdot) that interviewed 2513 adults in a US survey, nearly 14% of them said they found it difficult to stay away from the internet for several days…and “Approximately 6% also said their personal relationships had suffered as a result of excessive internet usage.”

I guess this percentage would be much higher on wider scale of geo- survey (apart from States). Ask yourself how many hours do you spend on the internet (for any purpose)?

yesterday, within rome film festival, was premiere of christopher nolan’s film the prestige (drama, sci-fi, triller, fantasy). interesting appearance is david bowie playing serbian inventor, electical engineer and scientist -nikola tesla

Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, “Let Tesla be”, and all was light.

B.A. Behrend, AIEE annual meeting, New York City, May 18, 1917.

.telekom on your accuracy and my phone is working again, and on the new page there is support for private users, not organizations, but what is great when  i found out this morning that you can send online application for different types of phone disfunctioning. Not bad at all, after 2 hours, i got a sygnal (though under ‘notes’ i wrote very short and harsh but polite words).  Seems they understood ( :

…and other mobile devices can be readable as offline content if you download and follow these instructions (for Linux, Windows, Mac users).  This could be useful for academic institutions and businesses and the following Wiki ebooks are available for free download (for now in English, German and Italian).

As i am stucked between some of the formats for textual (re)presentation of information, trying to figure out what is what, i was again distracted by this amusement saturday afternoon story (@blog of friend of mine) , that went too far, about geeks (typical girl chit-chatting).

copyright@ModernLife

Since i didn’t bother to make a classification of geeks, you are welcome to participate!

Yes, i am a geek ( i think so), and do not wear glasses (:

Those people who live in downtown of Belgrade, probably many of them doesn’t have telephone sygnal  blame it on Telekom.

Without any pre-information, main thing is that they have new web presentatation and do not care that some of us who work (and use DSL connection), need a phone line. Asking how i type this? Thanks to Nikola Tesla(: and the issue that i cannot use the phone but can (better not to say twice) internet. Fair enough.

Orhan Pamuk, a political dissident who has often clashed with the establishment, won the 2006 Nobel Literature prize, becoming the first Turk to win the coveted award.Pamuk, author of the book My Name is Red, Snow and half-a-dozen other novels, won the Nobel Literature Prize for a body of work that probes the crossroads of Muslim and Western cultures. Pamuk was the first writer in the Muslim world who has earned plaudits abroad and condemnation at home for speaking openly about the suffering of Armenians at the hands of Turks nearly a century ago.

As Ivo Andric won Nobel Literature Prize for 1961 for his great novel The Bridge on the Drina and wrote about the conflicts between Serbs and Muslims during the occupation by the Ottoman Empire, it all sems like the history’s repeating…

This evening in Belgrade is the premiere of the film of Srdjan Dragojevic- We are not Angels 3: Rock & Roll Strike Back .

After the total disaster of sequel named We are not angels 2 (2005) , it is interesting that for the No.3 , Dragojevic made this film based on his story “Dan kad je crk’o Marsal” (The Day when Marshal died) , reffering to Tito (known as Marshal). Also, interesting appearance is famous serbian basketball player Vlade Divac, former NBA player, and some of the interesting urban legends and actors. Hope this film will rock.

For those who are not familiar with, We are not angels , is a Serbian comedy that became the most popular film in 90’s in the areas of former Yugoslavia, during the time of big political disturbances. History and influences…

Carsten Höller (born 1962 in Brussels and lives&works in Sweden) holds a doctorate in biology, and as a scientist he uses his practice in his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships.

Those who live and are about to go to London, here’s interesting project, current exhibition in Tate Modern Gallery from10 October 2006 - 9 April 2007, under the name : the Unilever series - Carsten Höller. Seems that Brits like (spinning, sliding) tube projects. More on and official photos of ’slides’ here.

and more…

Borat Sagdiyev (British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen), landed in Paris for press conference and his new film “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan“. Here’s what he said - as usual: Jagshemash? Non? (:

This is hilarious! How would Students and Librarians in Europe react on this Pacman’s college geek prank? ( :