I decided to dedicate this entry to Blogs and service Word.Press because I consider that it is one of the main parts of our course.
First of all I want  to tell you what I think about Weblogs. Blogs for me became the ordinary part of world  with which it is necessary to be able to work. Under work  in this case I mean not so much conducting own blog, how  extraction of advantage from another’s blogs. I consider, that bloging have played the important role in development of modern culture, having shown people, that the Web, unlike newspapers and TV, is not read-only environment. That it can be changed.
Now I’ll tell you 5 things which you should know about WordPress 2.1
1  Automatic preservation of draft copies.
 In WordPress there is a function of autopreservation of messages when you write. Due to use AJAX, this operation will be made without refill pages. For autopreservation it is necessary, that the name of the message has been specified.
2 The advanced loading and processing of pictures.
 There is an opportunity of editing of the message after it is loaded.
3 Private.
In WordPress 2.1 there is an opportunity to block blog from researcher. 4 Nonces.
 Due to this function, WordPress allows to generate casual passwords, and also many other things which can damage yours blog. So, due to nonces, each inquiry corresponds to the certain event which allows to do only one thing to one person within the limits of admin (i.e. to approve comments or to delete messages). Actually, it replaces dialogue ” you are sured? “.
5 The interface of the visual editor.
In the visual editor, exist tabs for switching from a visual mode on a code and on the contrary.
One interesting thing – is CheatSheet for bloging.
Cheat Sheet – the brief set of notes used for fast reception of the information. During development of a pattern for the blog or changes existing, can help you Cheat Sheet as the cores are presented to them in a convenient kind all tags and variables . So, under the list:

• Movable Type Cheatsheet
• Drupal 4.7 Cheat Sheet
• WordPress Cheatsheet
• TypePad Cheatsheet
• TextPattern Cheatsheet
• Blogger Cheatsheet

Moreover, one interesting fact: The American government plans to conduct the account of bloggers, criticizing the Congress. The person who will refuse to be registered, can even put into prison. Registration are a subject bloggers with presence more than five hundred readers. After registration every quarter it will be necessary to hand over a denunciation. Besides, if to not report, in prison.

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How we are being watched

CCTV CAMERAS

CCTV in Britain’s streets can trace its genesis back to a limited system set up for the Queen’s coronation in 1953. By the 1960s there was permanent CCTV in some London streets. Now there are an estimated four million cameras in the country, viewing us as many as 300 times a day.

CCTV cameras in stores monitor shoplifters, those in cash machines look for fraud gangs, those on public transport watch vandals and thugs. But they also watch ordinary people at the same time.

Digital CCTV systems can be configured to use face-recognition and look for criminal suspects.

An estimated £500m of public money has been spent on installing CCTV in the last decade.

AUTOMATIC NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION

 

Cameras that could recognises the registration plates on suspect vehicles were first used to track IRA suspects in London. Now the technology is used for speed cameras, traffic enforcement cameras and in London’s congestion charging zone.

SHOP RFID TAGS

A massively growing area of surveillance technology is radio frequency ID tags. Shops and logistic firms say they will eventually be vital in stock control, with products communicating to “smart” shop shelves that they are being picked up and that a replacement should be readied in a warehouse.

Tags are either active or passive.

Passive tags can be small, with no antenna or power source they are little bigger than a full stop. With an antenna, they are the size of a postage stamp. These passive tags need to be scanned by a radio reading device to reveal their information.

Active tags are much larger, battery-powered and with a lifetime of up to a decade. Often used to track items such as freight containers, they have a range of hundreds of metres.

The fear is that RFID could eventually be used to monitor every object bought from a shop. But those behind the technology point out that their current use is for surveillance of objects only and that this stops at the door of the shop.

Perhaps the most controversial use of RFID to date in the UK was in 2003 when an RFID tracking system was used in the packaging of Gillette Mach3 razor blades to stop shoplifting at one of Tesco’s Cambridge branches. Anyone picking up a packet of the blades triggered CCTV surveillance of themselves in the store.

MOBILE PHONE TRIANGULATION

As well as being used to monitor unfaithful spouses, the mobile phone has had a more direct application in crime-fighting.

In addition to requesting lists of calls to and from suspects mobiles, the police now frequently use mobiles’ communication with different masts to triangulate the position of a suspect.

This has proved crucial in convicting Soham murderer Ian Huntley and Stuart Campbell, who killed teenager Danielle Jones.

STORE LOYALTY CARDS

There are anything up to 160 store loyalty card schemes in the UK, collecting information on shoppers.

The biggest scheme, Nectar, collects only data on how much is spent and where and when, but there is potential for other operators to eventually establish shopping habits by matching products to demographic information and tailoring offers to individual customers.

CREDIT CARD TRANSACTIONS

Every time we buy something with a credit or debit card we let the firm know where we are and what we are buying.

Information can be held on our spending patterns and also on our reliability as a customer. This can come in useful when an unusual pattern – such as spending a large amount of money in a foreign country – can be used to quickly identify that cloning or theft has taken place.

OYSTER CARDS

Introduced on London’s public transport network to speed up the flow of passengers, data from the card is already being used by the police.

If a criminal has used his or a stolen Oyster, that can be matched to Tube station CCTV at the same time to establish a link.

SATELLITES

No-one outside the military and intelligence community really has any idea of the level of monitoring from the skies.

But the popularity of Google Earth must lead users to guess that the military probably have their hands on something a whole lot better.

ELECTORAL ROLL

It is illegal not to register to vote in this country, although many people choose not to for various reasons and avoid punishment.

The result of registration is the electoral roll – a public record of where each voter lives that has proved a goldmine to junk-mail firms, marketing people and journalists over the years.

Now Britons have the option not to appear on the publicly-available list and instead only to appear on a restricted version for the use of the authorities. But credit reference agencies successfully argued that they should have access to this unabridged version.

The electoral roll provides a history of every place you have ever lived. Choose not to register and you will struggle to get even the smallest amount of credit.

NHS PATIENTS RECORDS

The government is in the middle of a massive IT project to unite the NHS’s various computer systems. Among the most significant developments is the bringing together of patient records on a national database.

Access to the records is carefully restricted, but privacy campaigners worry that the national system could prove vulnerable to security breaches.

PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDERS

Personal video recorders such as the TiVo or Skyplus offer a unique type of surveillance – they watch what you want to watch. The machines monitor your viewing habits and second-guess what you might want to record.

It’s rather like the way TV viewing figures have been assessed over the years, where a select group have their televisions fitted with boxes to see what they are watching.

PHONE-TAPPING

One of the most burning issues facing the criminal justice system is how long it will be before wire-tap evidence – the intercepting or monitoring of a mobile or landline telephone – is allowed to be used as evidence in court.

The government and the intelligence community are currently against – they do not want to be forced into making public evidence that could compromise security operations. Among those in favour are campaign group Liberty and legal reform group Justice.

BUGS AND HIDDEN CAMERAS

While phone-tap evidence cannot be used in court, evidence from bugs can. The first bug was invented by Russian Leon Theremin and after being discovered in the US embassy in Moscow, was reverse engineered by Spycatcher author Peter Wright.

This venerable method of surveillance was in the news again recently when it was revealed a London restaurant was sweeping for bugs to prevent industrial espionage involving corporate lunches.

WORKER CALL MONITORING

While there are few who will ever be recorded by a bug, there are thousands in the UK who have their phone conversations recorded every day.

Call centre workers, whose conversations are recorded for “training purposes”, face daily eavesdropping from managers keen to ensure they do not diverge from the script or indulge in too much personal chit-chat during sales calls.

COOKIES

One of the most subtle forms of surveillance is the use of HTTP cookies – small packets of data that are used to communicate between websites and your computer. They are used to set your preferences when you visit a website for a second time and for a host of other reasons.

You can switch your cookies off but then there’s a host of websites that you will be unable to use properly. Want to shop online? Well then you might just have to accept being watched.

HOW WE CAN BE WATCHED

4.2m CCTV cameras
300 CCTV appearances a day
Reg plate recognition cameras
Shop RFID tags
Mobile phone triangulation
Store loyalty cards
Credit card transactions
Satellites
Electoral roll
NHS patient records
Personal video recorders
Phone-tapping
Hidden cameras/bugs
Worker call monitoring
Worker clocking-in
Mobile phone cameras
Internet cookies
Keystroke programmes

Everything from shopping tags to mobile phones has the potential to be watching us.

Crowdsoursin

 I understand crowdsoursing in that way.The Internet and new technologies have balanced fans(amateurs) and professionals in access right to the customer. You wish to receive cheaply that, for what professionals demand thousand dollars? You need to find ingenious idea for business or to solve unsoluble for experts(auditeurs) of your company a problem(task)? Address to crowdsoursing or to talents and knowledge of millions Internet users.

If you wish to buy(purchase) a photo, a videoclip or to solve a challenge, it is not obligatory to you to address to professionals. At your service a global network and all of knowledge and skills of its(her) users. Development of technologies has broken barriers which once separated fans(amateurs) from professionals, and the Internet has given to them equal opportunities. It is necessary to be able simply to use the latent talents of “crowd” – users of a world wide web.

I don’t know what to write because I am satisfied with everything!!!

As I wrote earlier Blogs let writers easily fulfill their dream to write. Writers get their own writing space, where they are free to write on any topic, whenever they want: from opinion and observation to fiction and poetry.
Secondly, writers experience the thrill of knowing they were read, and enjoy gaining a loyal, dedicated following. It’s simple for writers to find readers on Blogs, since there’s a diverse audience of people from all over the world, waiting to read and comment – right now.
You never know whom you might meet on Blogs. Whether writers are looking for a quiet readership or are eager for a spirited discussion, they will find it on Blogs. Many writers even have readers who have become new friends.

 Developing reading tastes.

Nowadays books stopped playing a big role in our life. We changed books on more pleasant and available things like Internet, TV, Radio and so on. These things became to play the greatest role in our life. With their help it became possible to be more informed watching documentaries, science programs, discussions and learning about the most important economic, social and political issues of the day. Now it is possible to see different great events and famous people, which will pass into history. They help us to relax after a herd day’s work. Apart from TV and Internet entertainment value they provide useful topics for discussions and conversations. But now some pupils are so attracted by television that they do not do their homework at all. According to statistics applied in test book on literature Astana, 2006, only 63% of applicants passed The Uniform National Exam on literature in 2005 (The Ministry of Education, 2006).
This could be caused by thing that children do not read books. Books give us a good opportunity to get excellent knowledge about everything in the world even better than TV and Internet. Books are gradually forgotten by many people, but they forget that books are key for knowledge and to all higher study. Due to books change our language, stimulate our emotions, form our intellect, influence our ideas values. So, to raise the amount of reading people the advertisements of books and bookshops should exist and influence on people. Due to that people could know where and what kind of books they can buy( for example, advertisements of bookshop assortment or any concrete book ). To support this fact it was found out that the advertisement of journal for children “Getting to Know the World” helped to sell out 350000 copies of this journal. This article has to provide our TV with books and bookshops advertisement for that people can find the most interesting and useful books.

The Prestige

Yesterday I with friends saw by DVD very interesting film. And the name of the film that we watched was the Prestige. When we finished watching the movie, I was surprised because the film was one of the best movies, which have ever watched. And it was so interesting and it was unpredictable at the end. This movie was about two magicians. And they were friend but later they became enemies to each other. Also they started to compete with each other in such way that who will the best effecting focus which the audience will never forget. And one scene affected more than other, at the start of the film one actor was describing one focus and the meaning of the word- prestige. There he used cross-cutting effect, and at the time it attracted me and interested what the film was about in such way that I tried to predict what film was about. And at the end of the film the flashbacks were quite good, two magician where explaining theirs focuses and about their lives. At the time I was astonished for their explanations and shots that was quite and good, that shots was in slow motion and they were understandable. When we finished watching the movie, for 30 minutes I couldn’t go through under the effect of film on me. I didn’t regret that I went to watch it.

 Why we use Blogs.

First of all, Blogs let writers easily fulfill their dream to write. Writers get their own writing space, where they are free to write on any topic, whenever they want: from opinion and observation to fiction and poetry.
Secondly, writers experience the thrill of knowing they were read, and enjoy gaining a loyal, dedicated following. It’s simple for writers to find readers on Blogs, since there’s a diverse audience of people from all over the world, waiting to read and comment – right now.
You never know whom you might meet on Blogs. Whether writers are looking for a quiet readership or are eager for a spirited discussion, they will find it on Blogs. Many writers even have readers who have become new friends.
   Thanks to new information technology, writers get everything they need to begin.      They can even select additional options, e.g. to add pictures and select different layouts and styles. There’s nothing to install, and no special software is needed.

The Blood Diamond

Last time I went to the cinema with my friend to watch a new movie of Leonardo Dicaprio. The name of this film is quite interesting-The Blood Diamond. By the way, because of this film Leonardo is one of claimants for Oscar as the best actor of dramatic films. Firstly at the beginning of the film for thirty minutes that I was watching, I thought that this film was just typical action film, but later because of some scenes I got under affection of the film. Precisely it touched my soul and heart, I was ready to cry. Film was about two men who agreed to help each other. If Salomon shows Danny where he buried the diamond of incredible sizes, Danny had to help to Salomon to rescue his family and son from soldier. There were two scenes, which affected more than others: in one scene Salomon’s son was aiming the gun at Salomon. at this moment  he started  explaining how he loves him, also that the family was waiting for him. Then he and his son started to cry. At this moment I want to cry. Here the director used the effect-medium close up. The next one was when Danny was sitting on the land and he was about to die. At this moment he phoned his girl and talked to her. After he died I started to cry and I couldn’t control my emotion. This scene touched my heart. When Danny talked to his girl the director used the effect- medium close up as in the first scene and when Danny was about to die he used a zoom effect. The director of the film has done his job well and good.