Music guide

Do you like Abakus or Shpongle? Do you like music at all?

I have just discovered 3 albums, they all seem to be the ABSOLUTE-MUST-HAVES, so here go the names

M-Seven - Activate (2005)
Index ID - Odyssee (2007)
Easily Embarrassed - Idyllic Life (2008)

Astonishlingly amazing! Embarassingly excellent! Fairly fabulous & Inexpressibly idyllic!

Go get it right away, don’t even try to miss it!

Studio’s 13th birthday

That is how we’ve spent last Friday night: photos, video

Wikinews are finally indexed by Google News!

Do students in Western universities treat children of rich Russian corrupt officlals (or thief businessmen), who also study there, as morons (who they usually are)?

A Japanese video showing Japanese children makes me suspect that they will begin to kill each other shortly.

That is because of overuse of theme of violence in Japanese culture.

Mass media

I have now to say that many English language Western mass media such as CNN of FoxNews are extremely biased in terms of portraying recent Georgia / South Ossetia conflict (and most likely moreover). The notorious FoxNews incident with the girl called Amanda (link for those not familiar) confirms that: some idols of Western Democratic culture such as "freedom of speech" are quite easily ignored when some bodies such as American Government need that. I have to state that CNN purportedly erroneusly represented the warfare as Russian aggression whereas there was no actual Russian initial aggression in that case.

Russian mass media often are also biased, but that is not the subject of this post.

SLEEPING HIPPIES MUSEUM

Dm. Hajduk, the Ukrainian-Russian storyteller, tests out his popular "rastaman tales" in English, see here: http://ganja-jungle.livejournal.com/75752.html

Who's here?

As a matter of goodwill, I'd be very happy if someone comments on this entry so I can see if anyone reads this (that doesn't mean I will stop writing if no one comments, I just want to, say, "measure").

Currently I do not promote this blog in conventional ways, but I keep it to have a place to write English language posts: there are no regular readers, but there do are occasional readers.

I believe any content in the Internet may be useful: if not immediately, then sometimes. True practice confirmed this so many times before.

In IE7 Javascript on Home button is disabled — that's totally gay

Pages that link to Hippie

Homepage tweak contd

NOT ONLY When this string is set as homepage in a browser (FF2 and IE6 were tested)

javascript:location.href="/";

pressing "Home" button leads you to the main (root) page of a current site (domain)

BUT ALSO

javascript:location.href="..";

means upper level

you can also add such "buttons" as links on the link panel

this also deals with "?=" parameter "style=mine" in LiveJournal with considering "#"'s and other "?='"s

Russian Wikipedia "a top internet community"

I have written just now

Homepage tweak

When this string is set as homepage in a browser (FF2 and IE6 were tested)

javascript:location.href="/";

pressing "Home" button leads you to the main (root) page of a current site (domain)

Medvedev to visit RIF

Newly elected Russian will-be president Dmirty Medvedev is to attend forthcoming Russian Internet Forum, according to what I wrote to the article.

English writings

I write regularly in English to Wikipedia, one can watch my contributions live at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ss_r. Also I write at times to Wikinews, contributions page is http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ssr. Recently I wrote also Español a poco también, pero still muy poco (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contributions/Sergei-sr).

My last Wikinews article is about Russian Wikipedia reaching 250K articles, see it at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Russian_Wikipedia_makes_quarter_million_articles (later it was translated in Spanish (not by me) as -->).

My radio on Last.fm

I have added the great Last.fm radio to the frontpage of this blog, see at http://sergeisergeievich.blogspot.com/

This is the free radio containing some of my favorite songs (those available to Last.fm for broadcasting) as gathered from long-term statistics in my Winamp. The player uses Flash so you don't need to install extra software; but keep in mind that it constantly consumes traffic while playing, if you care about it. You may visit Last.fm and learn about their numerous other great music services.

Some will say Ananda Shake has many songs similar to one another. This is not a bug, but a feature I would say

Reading Wikipedia is a skill

Many misinterpret what Wikipedia is because of lack of capability to read it properly. Unlikely what many see at first sight, Wikipedia is a complicated and sophisticated entity (and is popular moreover) so one must learn how to read it and not just take literally what is written. One must bear in mind that the text is multilayered and different pieces of it are written by different people at different times (reminder: all previous versions of each article are kept and can be read by anyone by clicking 'history'). It may be that an article has one main author and mixed additions of links, templates categories and so on. Sometimes it is clearly visible from the style, but there must be understanding that it can't be directly visible. That's how you may visualize it (different result every click).

English thoughts repository

So it again seems to me that I have an intention to make this blog a place for my English posts. Soon I'll be placing links to it to some of my other-site profile pages. A list of them is placed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssr

Wikipedia definition

I see the following conclusion nowadays. One of the major problems of Wikipedia is misunderstanding of the Spirit of the Project by large masses. The Spirit is in flexibility and actuality with possible presence of errors. Wikipedia (with Wikinews) is the Unifying kind of journalism (writing about life) with volunteer "civil journalists". Thus Wikipedia (in any language) can be seen as a mass media in an especial format.

It may contain information from any types of sources or comments with no sources (can be requested if needed). It may fail to contain what you want to see. It may contain untruthful information (report it). Information may be altered at any time (some data is altered regularly). Whoever doesn't understand this should bear this in mind next time reading Wikipedia. If you want to treat Wikipedia as an authoritative source and find a "nonsense" instead, maybe also wanting to "punish someone" for this, stop using the project (including using links to it somewhere) or change your approach.

An error in Wikipedia = error in press ≠ error in a sci-book

Traditional encyclopedia format couldn't withstand permanent actualisation. The format now can be merged with mass media format with weakened "authoritativity" featuring freedom of speech (and a right to have errors until they are corrected). Wikipedia is for reading by public what is written by public for free, not "authoritatively" written for basing "serious researches" or commercial reports on. Let scientists and accountants do their own work and find better matching authoritative sources (without rights to have errors). Wikipedia's "popularity" can't necessarily make some article a "serious" stuff.

I have decided to publish posts in English here since now. Maybe, I will have to communicate in English via this engine.