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The Art of Online Protest
I'm not very good at it, apparently. This journal was "deleted" for about 12 hours as part of the protest I'm going to call the 2006 LJ Boobie Blackout. I chose to undelete it when I got a worried email from my dad. He hasn't been able to reach two of my websites. (It seems to be a problem unique to him, or anyone surfing the Net from Singapore. I don't know what the reason for it may be. Something to I have to check out. I don't think I've said anything on those sites that would put them on any country's blacklist...)
Anyway, here I am again. I'm prepared to face the possibility that this journal is only a journal a parent could love and miss when it isn't online. Hee.
But... while we're still on the subject of electronic protest, one of the things that was eating at me for a while was how to boycott Google for cooperating with the Chinese government's censorship of international news sites like the BBC (oh wait... I guess saying something like this could be disagreeable to some entities). Not long ago, I did find an alternative to Google. It's Clusty.com
Yes, it sounds like a clown's name on the Simpsons, and there's a retro-gas-station look to the site, but just like Google, you can add a search bar to your browser using this search engine. And the 2 things it has that beats Google hands down is - (1) no censorship, and this is important enough to them that you can read their stance on it from a link on the front page, and (2) it clusters the search results. And it does this in a really smart way, so you control which results it displays to you that will be of most use to you. I've tried Ask.com and Clusty.com, and the clustering that Clusty appears a lot more powerful, so their name is appropriate indeed.
It is a little hard right now is tell anyone to "clusty" something though. It's not well known, and it doesn't sound good as a verb.
Anyway, here I am again. I'm prepared to face the possibility that this journal is only a journal a parent could love and miss when it isn't online. Hee.
But... while we're still on the subject of electronic protest, one of the things that was eating at me for a while was how to boycott Google for cooperating with the Chinese government's censorship of international news sites like the BBC (oh wait... I guess saying something like this could be disagreeable to some entities). Not long ago, I did find an alternative to Google. It's Clusty.com
Yes, it sounds like a clown's name on the Simpsons, and there's a retro-gas-station look to the site, but just like Google, you can add a search bar to your browser using this search engine. And the 2 things it has that beats Google hands down is - (1) no censorship, and this is important enough to them that you can read their stance on it from a link on the front page, and (2) it clusters the search results. And it does this in a really smart way, so you control which results it displays to you that will be of most use to you. I've tried Ask.com and Clusty.com, and the clustering that Clusty appears a lot more powerful, so their name is appropriate indeed.
It is a little hard right now is tell anyone to "clusty" something though. It's not well known, and it doesn't sound good as a verb.
