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C2E2 EXCLUSIVE: Tim Seeley Writes Bad Romance in "Ex Sanguine"
"Hack/Slash" creator Tim Seeley finds the true way to a vampire's heart in "Ex Sanguine," a 5-issue mini from Dark Horse announced at C2E2. CBR spoke exclusively with the writer/artist.
"Sin City" Sequel Officially Announced
Co-Directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have announced production is finally set to begin on the long-awaited sequel to 2005's "Sin City." CBR News has all the details.
How "Buffy" Got Her Groove Back
Graeme McMillan looks at "Buffy: Season 9," noting "writer Andrew Chambliss manages to not only get the Whedon tone exactly right... but also makes it work in comic format in a way that the previous series didn't."
EXCLUSIVE: Dark Horse Advance Solicitations for July, 2012
Dark Horse has provided CBR News with an exclusive first look at their July titles including the latest from "Buffy Season 9," "Dark Horse Presents" and more.
CBR TV: Richardson, Sakai Tell the Tale of 47 Ronin
CBR TV spoke with Dark Horse Publisher Mike Richardson and legendary artist/writer Stan Sakai about their comics adaptation of the true Japanese story of the 47 Ronin, and what it means for "Usagi Yojimbo."
PREVIEWS: "Dark Horse Presents," "Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi"
Courtesy of Dark Horse, CBR presents exclusive advance looks at new comics hitting stores Wednesday, August 18, including "Dark Horse Presents" #11, "Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi - Force Storm" #3 and more!
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Oeming Reveals His "Victories"
"Powers" artist Michael Avon Oeming spoke with CBR exclusively about - and shared a first look at - his new creator-owned series "Victories," a bleak superhero epic with intensely personal overtones.
ECCC12 EXCLUSIVE: Brian Wood's "The Massive" Features Print Issue-Only Bonus Content
Brian Wood spoke to CBR News about his Emerald City Comicon announcement of print-only bonus material for his June-debuting ongoing series "The Massive" with artist Kristian Donaldson.
EXCL. PREVIEW: "B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: The Long Death" #3
Dark Horse has provided CBR News with an exclusive preview of "B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: The Long Death" #3 by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and James Harren. It's Wendigo vs. Jaguar God on April 18!
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Peter Bagge's "Reset" #1
Dark Horse Comics has provided CBR with an exclusive preview of "Reset" #1. Harvey Award-winner Peter Bagge's new sci-fi series debuts April 18.
Mike Richardson Produces Motion Comics For Felicia Day's Geek & Sundry
Dark Horse has paired its long-in-development motion comics with actress Felecia Day's new YouTube channel. Mike Richardson tells CBR why now is the time to debut moving versions of comics like "The Secret" and more.
Tom Morello's "Orchid" Enters Its Second Act
Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello's epic of popular uprising in a dystopian world enters its second arc with this week's "Orchid" #5. CBR spoke with Morello about the series and its real-world themes.
Chris Samnee Rips Into "Angel & Faith"
The creative team from crime OGN "Area 10" reteams on "Angel & Faith" as Christos Gage and Chris Samnee prepare a one-off story, equal parts funny and frightening, featuring ideas from Joss Whedon's "Ripper" TV show.
REVIEW: "Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Nine" #7
Kelly Thompson gives "Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Nine" #7 4.5 stars calling Andrew Chambliss and Georges Jeanty "more than worthy of rolling this story out with all the respect, beauty and consistency it deserves."
Dark Horse Comics Solicitations for June, 2012
Dark Horse has released solicitation information and images for items shipping in June, 2012, including the latest "Buffy," "Angel & Faith," "B.P.R.D.," "Conan" and Brian Wood's "The Massive" #1!
EXCL. PREVIEWS: "B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth," "King Conan"
Courtesy of Dark Horse, CBR presents exclusive early looks at new comics hitting stores Wednesday, March 21 and 28, including two installments of "B.P.R.D. Hell On Earth," "Dark Horse Presents" #10 and more!
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: "Angel & Faith" #8
Dark Horse Comics has provided CBR with an exclusive preview of "Angel and Faith" #8 by Christos Gage and Rebekah Isaacs. The issue, with a Steve Morris cover and Isaacs variant, hits stores March 28.
PRESS RELEASE: Kobo Partners With Dark Horse Comics
PRESS RELEASE: Dark Horse Graphic Novels Now Available on Nook Tablets
REVIEW: "Usagi Yojimbo" #144
Ryan K. Lindsay gives "Usagi Yojimbo" #144 4 stars calling the issue by Stan Sakai "a thrilling and amazing exploration of comics' high potential."
Jan Strnad Enters "Ragemoor"
"Mutant World" creators Jan Strnad and Richard Corben unite again for "Ragemoor," a story of a living castle and its monstrous inhabitants. CBR spoke with Strnad about the project with an exclusive look at Corben's art..
EXCLUSIVE: Golden Reveals "Baltimore: Dr. Leskovar's Remedy"
Lord Baltimore's quest for the scarred vampire continues in "Dr. Leskovar's Remedy" from Dark Horse. CBR spoke with writer Christopher Golden about the World War I-era horror series.
PRESS RELEASE: Geppi's Entertainment Museum to Stage "Milestones: African Americans in Comics, Pop Culture and Beyond"
Landau, Gage & Allie Discuss "Drusilla"
Juliet Landau, star and writer behind "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" villain Drusilla explains the mysteries driving the five issue mini-series in June with "Angel & Faith's" Christos Gage and editor Scott Allie. Plus, exclusive art.
EXCLUSIVE: DeConnick and Noto Resurrect Dark Horse's "Ghost"
Kelly Sue DeConnick and Phil Noto breathe new life into Ghost beginning in "Dark Horse Presents" #13. CBR spoke with them about the character, her city and what's changed with an exclusive look at the redesigned character.
EXCL. PREVIEWS: "Buffy Season 9," "Conan" & More
Courtesy of Dark Horse, CBR presents exclusive advance looks at new comics hitting stores Wednesday, March 14, including "Buffy: Season 9" #7, Wood and Cloonan's "Conan the Barbarian" #2 and much more!
Juliet Landau Writes Drusilla Spinoff "Buffy" Comic
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" actress Juliet Landau will pen a five-issue comic series based Drusilla, the popular character she played on the Joss Whedon show.
FIRST LOOK: "Buffy Season 9," "Ragemoor," "Conan the Barbarian" Covers
Dark Horse has provided CBR with an exclusive First Look at the covers for "Buffy Season 9" #10, "Ragemoor" #4, "Conan the Barbarian" #5 and "Orchid" #8.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: "The Goon" #38
Courtesy of Dark Horse, CBR presents an exclusive preview of "The Goon" #38. Creator Eric Powell revels the secret history of the Goon's Aunt Kizzie, the Iron Maiden, on March 7!
Digital Comic Resources: ComicsPRO, Archie on Facebook
Brian Hibbs returns from ComicsPRO with interesting notes on publishers' views on digital comics, Archie sells direct through its Facebook page, ROBOT 6 debuts art from Dark Horse's latest digital-only series and more.
PRESS RELEASE: Dark Horse's "Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise" Tops Bookscan at #1
"Prototype 2" Rips into Vegas
CBR News got a sneak peak at Activision's "Prototype 2," the heavily anticipated sequel featuring a new lead character, brutal abilities and all the blood and mayhem that made the original game a hit.
Stan Lee Media Loses "Conan" Legal Battle
A federal judge has dismissed a bid by Stan Lee Media to reclaim the rights to Conan the Barbarian even as the company looks to move forward in its attempt to pursue the rights to Spider-Man, the Avengers and more.
BEHIND BUFFY SEASON 9: Andrew Chambliss Discusses Buffy's Choice
With Buffy Summers' life taking new and unexpected turns in the wake of a positive pregnancy test, writer Andrew Chambliss takes us once again BEHIND BUFFY SEASON 9 for a discussion of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" #6.
REVIEW: "Conan the Barbarian" #1
Kelly Thompson gives "Conan the Barbarian" #1 4 stars calling writer Brian Wood, artist Becky Cloonan and colorist Dave Stewart "an exemplary creative team."
THE COMMENTARY TRACK: Brian Wood's "Conan the Barbarian" #1
"Conan the Barbarian" writer Brian Wood sheds light on the process and challenges of adapting Robert E. Howard's "Queen of the Black Coast" for his and Becky Cloonan's new Dark Horse series.
Dark Horse Comics Solicitations for May, 2012
Dark Horse has released solicitation information and images for items shipping in May, 2012, including the latest "Buffy," "Angel & Faith," "Mass Effect," "Hellboy," "Conan" and more!
REVIEW: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9" #6
Kelly Thompson weighs in on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9" #6 and gives the controversial issue 4 stars, saying of Andrew Chambliss and Georges Jeanty's issue it's "a comic to be reckoned with."
Buffy Makes Controversial Decision in Latest Issue
In today's "Buffy: Season 9" #6, the Slayer deals with her pregnancy head on and confronts a topic readers have been debating since last issue's big revelation: whether Buffy will have an abortion.
Scott Allie On Making "Buffy" Bold
As "Season 9" of Joss Whedon's franchise continues, Buffy the Vampire Slayer tackles new emotions through her pregnancy, new villains with "zompires" and new mysteries surrounding Spike, Willow and the gang.
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The Worst Decisions Made by College Football Coaches This Year
By (Senior Analyst) on November 24, 2009
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Here's the thing about a lot of awful coaching decisions: They're just great coaching decisions in unpleasant disguises.
Most of the decisions on this list (except for the truly awful, clock-bleeding ones) would have looked ballsy and brilliant had they been executed properly, or just caught a little luck.
But they didn't, and the coaches who tried them looked like goats afterward.
In anticipation of another great weekend in armchair coaching, here are the worst decisions (some with video!) made by college football's leading men this year.
Danny Hope Lends a Timeout to the Irish
The wisdom of this call remains debatable, but it is still questionable enough to land on this list.
Purdue was leading Notre Dame by four and had stopped Robert Hughes on second down with 36.9 seconds to play and no timeouts.
The clock was ticking, the Irish were scrambling...and that's when Danny Hope made the controversial decision to call timeout.
I agreed with Hope's decision at the time. Assuming that the Irish would still have time to get off two plays and probably score, Hope needed to retain some time on the clock for the possibility of a field goal response.
But when Charlie Weis admitted that the Irish were going to spike the ball on third instead of running a real play, suddenly Hope looked like the one who'd been had.
Spiking the ball not only would have put the Irish at a huge disadvantage (there was still enough time to run two plays), it would have stopped the clock and preserved Purdue's timeout in the event of a score.
There was, of course, no reason to believe Weis would make such a stupid decision based on the statistics. But the fact was, he didn't have to; one was made for him.
Hope's timeout effectively gave the Irish time to set up the right play and two more chances to score. That second chance is what ended up costing Purdue the win.
Bill Stewart Goes for it on Fourth Down a Touch Too Soon
I'm rarely opposed to going for it on fourth down; actually, I'm in the camp that says coaches don't go for it enough. But I was disgusted when, with 5:45 to go in the fourth quarter and down a touchdown, Bill Stewart's Mountaineers went for it on 4th-and-9 from the 28-yard line instead of kicking the field goal.
In my mind, there's just too much time left, and too many factors opposing that decision.
First of all, from a statistical perspective, there's a big difference between 4th-and-9 and 4th-and-3. Fourth-and-3 can be picked up on a complete pass, a run, or a scramble, but the statistics definitely caution against going for it above, say, five or six yards to go.
Second, the 28-yard line is a 45-yard field goal. Tyler Bitancurt hit a 45-yarder in WVU's win over Liberty, so it wasn't out of his range.
Assuming Bitancurt makes it, a field goal would have cut Cincy's lead to four. That way, if Cincy scores a field goal on their ensuing possession (as they did) WVU could have tied the game on their touchdown instead of scoring and still being down a field goal.
If Cincy scores a touchdown on their ensuing possession, WVU would still be down two possessions, but could make it up with a touchdown, a two-point conversion, and a field goal instead of two touchdowns.
If WVU makes the field goal, they kick off instead of turning the ball over on downs, which probably favors the field goal in terms of field position.
Plus, it wasn't like WVU's passing game was getting hot. In fact, Jarrett Brown didn't throw a complete pass for the entire drive, picking up a 3rd-and-11 on a 23-yard scramble.
All Cincy had to do was spy on Brown and make sure he stayed in the pocket and the turnover was all but guaranteed.
Cincy's winning margin was Bitancurt's unattempted field goal.
And as we all know, this wasn't the first time Bill Stewart has blown late-game decisions.
It's a very good thing the focus was on the awful call that ruled a fumble as a touchdown , because there was just as much egg on Stewart's face by the end of the night.
Charlie Weis Outcoaches...Himself?
Granted, Notre Dame had been cutting the Michigan secondary to ribbons all day. With the ball, the lead, and 2:29 to go, running would have burned the timeouts, but completing a pass on 2nd-and-9 would have entirely ended Michigan's chances at a comeback.
But why throw against Donovan Warren, the All-Big Ten cornerback? You've got Shaquille Evans lined up against Boubacar Cissoko on the other side. Cissoko has gotten torched, outjumped, outplayed all day. Why not have Evans be Clausen's first read?
And don't tell me it's because Michigan's safeties would have helped. Michigan doesn't have any safeties.
Clausen throws a go route to Golden Tate, Warren makes a spectacular play, it's third down, and a little pressure rushes a pass to Shaq Evans on the comeback route.
We all know how this one ended, right?
Pat Narduzzi Empties the MSU Secondary and Loses on the Slant
We've all run the slant in goal line situations for the NCAA video game series, right? And how many times has it been picked off and taken to the house by the outside linebacker who drops into the throwing lane?
Well, Michigan State defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi wants to hear nothing of "dropping into zone coverage." At MSU, they blitz, and they blitz hard.
The Spartans were clinging to a four-point lead and had held the Hawkeyes out of the end zone on three straight plays.
But Ricky Stanzi and WR Marvin McNutt convinced Ken O' Keefe to call the slant pass.
Watch the play: Tony Moeaki motions, bringing the other defender in McNutt's area with him and signaling to Stanzi that MSU is in man coverage.
There's no safety help in the middle for MSU's cornerbacks. In spite of the blitz, against which Iowa's line played heroically, it's a pitch and catch.
That's a very bad call.
Weis Leaves a Down on the Board Against USC
Not to pile on here, but after converting on a fourth-down attempt and benefiting from a personal foul call, Charlie Weis held onto Notre Dame's last timeout and also chose not to spike the ball, letting the clock run after the chains were reset.
In the process, Weis allowed a good 10 or 15 precious seconds to drip off the clock while the Irish got set on the line of scrimmage. I remember thinking how they didn't look nervous in the least.
The result was the game ending on third instead of fourth down. Who knows what Clausen and the Cardiac Kids could have accomplished with a little more time and one more shot at the end zone?
Yale Men, Too Smart for Their Own Good
Yale's coach wanted to "keep the pressure on" and show his team wasn't "scared" in the annual Ivy League rivalry game.
And that's all well and good, but faking a punt on 4th-and-22 from your own 25 is asking a little too much of your special teams unit, even if it would have iced the game.
Harvard stopped the fake, scored to go up 14-10, and held on to win, proving once again that common sense is the better half of intelligence.
Les Miles Apparently Has Time to Bleed
I've questioned Les Miles' legitimacy as a coach before . I don't think guts and shoot-from-the-hip intuition are any substitutes for preparation and playing statistical advantages...and I hate to say I told you so on this one.
Miles and the LSU coaching squad were caught with their pants WAY down when they failed to call a timeout after a screen pass attempt on third down against Ole Miss.
A full 17 seconds ticked off the clock before the timeout was called, leaving just enough time for the completion and the spike to end the game.
The worst part was when Miles first denied, then accepted responsibility for the call, throwing his coaches and then himself under the bus.
One needs little intuition to sense that not everything is legit down in the Bayou.
Tressel Flubs, Pryor Throws, the USC Win Gets Squandered Away
I'm not crazy enough to say that Ohio State punting on 4th-and-11 was incorrect. The yardage was too long, and at that point the Buckeyes needed to play field position.
Nor was it a particularly "stupid" call like those that preceded it.
But I, like a few notable others, took enormous issue with Jim Tressel's play-calling prior to the punt, specifically in asking for Pryor to pass on second and third down.
This decision represented what was (and may continue to be) wrong with the Ohio State offensive play-calling.
Why would you not have Pryor or Brandon Saine or Boom Herron running on those plays? Why would you risk an interception or an incompletion that stops the clock?
Get a first down and the drive is over, the game is won, the streak against BCS teams is over.
Instead, Pryor threw incomplete on second and was sacked on third down, forcing 4th-and-11 and putting the game back into the hands of the Trojans.
Jim Tressel recruited Pryor on the promise that Pryor would be prepared to play in the NFL while in Columbus. And yes, that means grooming him to pass under pressure.
But in situations like this, Terrelle Pryor is a kind of anti-Vince Young, forced to rely on skills that come least naturally to him at the most crucial times, bottled up and sheltered from taking the game onto his shoulders.
With the game on the line, Pryor fell short, and though he blamed himself, it was Tressel (and whoever else is calling the plays) that was truly to blame.
Instead of allowing him to rise to the occasion, Tressel folded under the weight of that promise, and Pryor and his gifts as a runner were squandered, Big Ten championship or no.
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Thanks for the comments. See below for resolutions. Made just about all of the changes, plus a few extra things beating document into submission. New version online now. AV: please check my changes. Addison Addison P. Phillips Director, Globalization Architecture webMethods | Delivering Global Business Visibility http://www.webMethods.com Chair, W3C Internationalization (I18N) Working Group Chair, W3C-I18N-WG, Web Services Task Force http://www.w3.org/International Internationalization is an architecture. It is not a feature. > -----Original Message----- > From: email@example.com > [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]On Behalf Of A. Vine > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:55 PM > To: I18n WSTF > Subject: Comments on the usage scenarios doc, sections 1-3 > > > > Editors' copy $Date: 2004/04/14 11:17:19 > > Here is my last review of sections 1-3 of the scenarios doc > before a potential > proofread when it really is done. > > > 1 Introduction > -------------- > > "The goal of the Web Services Internationalization Task Force is > to ..." - > shouldn't that be Internationalization Web Services Task Force, > as it's written > on the linked page? DONE. > > > 2.1 Basic Framework: Anatomy of a Web Service Interaction > --------------------------------------------------------- > > "The services is the function, ..." - remove final 's' from 'services' DONE > > 2.1.2 Request > ------------- > > 5. "If the SOAP message was decoded successfully, ... (that is, > it was not in > error) ... the provider agent will now attempt to invoke the > service itself." > - change of tense, would be better as - > "If the SOAP message is decoded successfully, ... (that is, > it is not in > error) ... the provider agent attempts to invoke the service itself." DONE > > > 3.1 What are Internationalization and Localization? > --------------------------------------------------- > > subtitle "Do you even care?" - just kidding > > noted "web services" - assume doc will be scanned for all > occurrences of "web > services in any capitalization configuration and adjusted to the > prescribed "Web > services" This occurrence fixed. > > "Natural language text processing (parsing, spell checking, > grammar checking are > examples of these)" => > "Natural language text processing; for example, parsing, spell > checking, grammar > checking." Actually a colon should be used to introduce lists. I note that this item didn't quite make sense in its context (which is a list of items for which there might be an international preference). I changed it to read:
Natural language for text processing: parsing, spell checking, and grammar checking are examples of this
 I also cleaned up the list so that all items omit an ending period and use similar language, etc. > > "Alternate Calendars ... " => "Alternate calendars ... " DONE. I used semi-colons in this list to make up for using a colon earlier. > > Add period after "Tax or regulatory regime", "Currency", "...and > many more", or > take the periods off the ends of the other bullet points. Ah. Yes. Done. > Add a > space after the > ellipses in "...and many more". DONE > > Is there a W3C convention for referring to keywords and constants in > programming/markup languages? I think we should set off "lang" > and "xml:lang" > in the following statement "HTML for example uses the lang > attribute to indicate > the language of segments of content. XML uses the xml:lang > attribute for the > same purpose." Agreed. xml:lang is now marked up with the  tag throughout. > > More on setting off a term "In this document, we will use the > term locale as the > name for this shorthand indicator for a user's particular set of > international > preferences." => 'locale' should be set off in some way, via underline or > italics or bold or quotes or something. We should be consistent, > though, about > how we set off a type of term. In " ... this shorthand indicator > for a user's > particular set of international preferences." change 'for' to 'of'. I should make 'locale' a termref everywhere that it occurs. Actually, in doing it, I find that this is sort of overkill. I'm trying to make the first occurrence in each section a termref. > > In the definition of Localization, why is "Locale" capitalized? It's consistent. > I don't see a > need for it. And again in the 2nd paragraph of Language > Negotiation definition. Cleaned up other references to locale to be all lowercase, except when referring to the Java class (which we do in a couple of examples). In these cases I replaced with java.util.Locale to make the usage clear. > > 2nd paragraph of Language Negotiation definition - " ... the > locale of "en-US" > ... " - 2 things, should we leave the hyphen as opposed to the > underscore even > though that convention is not yet established or standardized, > and whatever we > use, should it be set off by double quote marks? back to establishing > conventions for setting off types of terms. Replaced sentence with this text: For example, a system might define a locale of "en-US" (English, United States). This locale encompasses several time zones, so the user's preferred time zone... > > Same paragraph "prefered" => "preferred", "infered" => > "inferred", "vs" => "vs." > - assume doc will be spell-checked. Will spell check when done. Fixed these. Replaced vs with "versus" > > 3.1 last paragraph, change "and so forth" to "and others" or "and other > entities" or something like that DONE. > > 3.1.1 Relationship of Locale to Natural Language > ------------------------------------------------- > > " ... in the absence of other information, the language parameter can be > helpful in guessing a relevant locale." - remove comma after 'information' DONE. Some wordsmithing and formatting was also done on this paragraph, inserting a cross-reference to RFC3066 as well. > > So, you _are_ deleting the old block, right? DONE. > > 3.1.2 I-025: Specifying and Exchanging International Preferences > in Web Services > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------------- > > "Web services, by contrast, must ... " => > "Web services, in contrast, must ..." DONE > > Expand "RPC" the first time it's used, then use the acronym. You know not what you ask. I rewrote the paragraph to accommodate this as follows:
Web services, in contrast, must allow disparate systems to interoperate in a consistent, non-proprietary manner. This design allows systems to invoke each other without regard to the internal architecture of any part of the system. It is helpful to think of a Web service as an remote procedure call ("RPC"), even though many Web services do not use the SOAP-RPC pattern. Unlike Web applications that can store user preferences in a session-like object hidden from the requester, Web service interoperability requires a shared model, if processing is to produce consistency between expectations and result.
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Web services, by contrast, must interoperate between systems in an RPC-like way (even though many Web services do not use the SOAP-RPC pattern, it is helpful to think about it this way for a moment). Web applications can store user preferences in a session-like object which is hidden from the requester. Interoperability at an API level requires a shared model, if processing is to produce consistency between expectations and result.
 > > "There is no way to associate the string argument with locale > functionality in > the provider or available in the transport." => > "There is no way to associate the string argument with locale > functionality > available in the provider or in the transport." - hmm, locale > functionality > available in the transport, is that even possible? Identification, yes, > functionality? Modified substantially:
<emph>Description Scenario B:</emph>The same method is implemented taking a single string argument instead. The programmer creating the method writes logic to translate the string into the appropriate internal locale object. This logic may be substantial and must be repeated or shared for each locale-affected method. There is no way to associate the string argument with locale functionality in the provider, locale or language identifiers available in the transport, or to describe the parameter fully and consistently in directories. A system invoking the service might not be able to create a string in the expected format. The provider may not be able to validate the information appropriately.
 > > Need spaces after all the colons, e.g. "Description Scenario DONE > B:The ... " => > "Description Scenario B: The ... " > > "A legacy (existing) function ... " => > "An existing function ... " DONE. Changed to: "A existing or "legacy" function or method which obtains its locale information from the runtime environment is deployed as a Web service. " > > in Description Scenario C, "Accept-Langauge" => "Accept-Language" DONE > "Existing locale negotiation mechanisms (such as Accept-Langauge in many > application servers) rely on the container (formerly an > Application server, but > in this case the service provider) to populate this information. " => > "Existing locale negotiation mechanisms, such as Accept-Language in many > application servers, rely on the container (formerly an > Application server, but > in this case the service provider) to populate this information. " DONE. > > Can we do something about the double colons in the Scenario As? > maybe replace > the second colon with a dash or something. Reformatted. > > "Scenario A: Different Locale Identifiers: Sender sends a request > to a Provider > and wants a specific locale and uses its identifier for that." => > "Scenario A: Different Locale Identifiers - Sender sends a > request to a Provider > wanting a specific locale and uses its identifier for that." Sender sends a request to a Provider, expecting a result in a specific locale. > > " ... but the specific operation is slightly different than the sender's > implementation and ... "=> > " ... but the specific operation is slightly different from the sender's > implementation and ... " DONE. Some more rewording in this para. > > " ... (zh-Hant -> zh which represents Simplified)" => > " ... , for example zh-Hant, which represents Traditional > Chinese, becomes zh, > which represents Simplified Chinese." - set off zh-Hant and zh DONE. Reworded this as: zh-Hant, the RFC3066 language tag for Chinese written in the Traditional Han script might fall back to zh which represents generic Chinese and, on many systems, implies the use of the Simplified Han script > > "Scenario B: Senders sends a request to a Provider and wants a specific > locale and uses its identifer for that." => > "Scenario B: Sender sends a request to a Provider wanting a specific > locale and uses its identifer for that." Reworked a bunch of the items in here, making changes as suggested, but also making the parenthetical items into fully explanatory sentences. > > Same Scenario, is the parenthetical (LCID -> Java) clear to our > audience? My Fixed that. > guess is that it's pretty much Greek to anyone outside of i18n. > I think we > should clarify the example, e.g. "For example, Microsoft Windows' > Locale C? ID LCID is, I think, short for LoCale ID.... go figure. > (LCID) is not the same as a Java locale identifier." or something > like that > > I'd like to pull the examples out of parentheses and give them > more clarity in > general in this section. Me too. DONE. > > Scenario D needs a cleanup, I'm not sure exactly what is the > intention so I > can't rewrite it. Did that... > > "Scendario E" => "Scenario E" (Addison needs more sleep) also > another cleanup > needed. > > Scenario F needs cleanup. Did more. > > Figure shows up in wrong spot, at least on Netscape 7.1 - it > should be after > Scenario A++ (the extra smart scenario) Moved. Graphic needs fixing still. > > 3.2.1 Textual vs. Binary Representations > ---------------------------------------- > > " ... binary representations and textual represenations." => > " ... binary and textual representations." DONE, and fixed the misspell of represenations, space in text ual. > > > "As an example, a floating-point number is represented in some > binary format > internal to an application, and is converted to a text ual format, with > appropriate localization formatting (e.g. using a decimal comma > rather than a > decimal point for many European locales), for output to the user." => > "As an example, a floating-point number is represented in some > binary format > internal to an application, and is converted to text with appropriate > localization formatting for output to the user; for instance, the > decimal in the > formatted text may be represented by a comma, rather than a period." Slightly different rewording was done. > > "Nevertheless, most of them were carefully designed to be > locale-independent, > and are intended to be used locale-independent." => > "Nevertheless, most of them were carefully designed to be > locale-independent, > and are intended to be used in a locale-independent manner." or > something > similar which is not "Me Tarzan, you Jane" sounding Unga-bunga. Reworded para as: As an example, the XML Schema Datatype date uses the format YYYY-MM-DD from ISO 8601. This format is similar (and in some cases even identical) to some actual formats used in some locales. The format is unambiguous and can be understood by a human reading the XML file. Although it is the appropriate format in some locales and not in others, it can be understood to be a locale-independent format. By contrast, if XML Schema had chosen a format that is not used in any locale, such as just numbering days since a well-defined day, it would have made the format much more difficult for humans to work with, without any benefits. > > Note in the 2nd paragraph, the word "date" is set off via a > change to a Courier > type font - we could exploit this convention throughout the doc > for keywords and > constants. Also note, the ISO standard here is written ISO 8601, > that is, with > a space after 'ISO'. We should be consistent in the way we write the ISO > standard names. Same goes for RFCs, but RFCs don't have to be > consistent with ISOs. Noted and working on it, as you can see. > > 3.2.2 Locale-dependent XML Schema datatypes > ------------------------------------------- > > still need the Ethiopic example here > > also, we have to decide if we're sticking with titlecase rules > for section heads > and apply it to all of them. Fixing as I go. > > > > I'll put the rest of the comments in a separate mail (or mails) > > Andrea > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Received on Wednesday, 28 April 2004 14:01:59 GMT
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So while the naive folks in Silicon Valley are singing praise to Digital Sky Technologies (DST), Russia's new investing behemoth with ambitions of world domination, I bet they have no clue that Kremlin has recently tasked Yuri Milner, DST's CEO and founding partner, with finding a way to police RuNet and cleanse it of all illegal content.
It's not yet clear what shape this would take but official sources inside DST say that Milner would work on consolidating the views of Russian Internet Service Provicers into a common position on how to deal with illegal content (see here for a detailed report in Russian).
The most interesting bit in all of this is that Milner - who is also an investor in two of Russia's most popular social networks, which are, ironically, leading distributors of "illegal content" in Russia, however you define it - has apparently volunteered for the position. Maybe, we should just adopt the Russian approach to content regulation on a global scale and also have Facebook's founder come up with his own laws for how to regulate his company (and wait, Milner is an investor in Facebook, too - maybe he can help there).
But jokes aside, I actually believe that Milner will be extremely effective in his job - much more effective than the lazy Russian bureaucrats. He may simply need a good excuse to purge his sites of weird, political, and harmful content - and what can be better than given carte blanche by the regime?
That the Kremlin has a history of recruiting smart Internet talent for their own political agenda is not exactly a secret. What bothers me is that no one in Silicon Valley has the guts to start asking questions about Milner's role in what would inevitably become a great purging of the Russian Internet. Milner, of course, knows his way around the Internet universe: just this week, he charmed the tech gurus - and even Charlie Rose - with his grand pronouncements that "Facebook Is Going To Be The Social Graph That Unifies All Civilization" (that is, right before it destroys it through some nasty privacy flaw).
But Milner's high-minded talk is a poor excuse for not challenging the man about his cosy relationships with Kremlin; that a man who - even if somewhat indirectly - controls two of Russia's most popular social networks and has a stake in Facebook, is trusted enough by the Kremlin to help in their censorship efforts (Milner also sits on one of the presidential commissions) should be a cause for concern, not celebration.
But overall I'm kind of glad that Milner is giving Silicon Valley a rope to hang themselves. Privacy-wise, the only thing worse than Facebook is a Facebook owned by a Russian investor with strong ties to the Kremlin.
Get seriously worried about the Internets. Surround yourself with social media gurus who don't know anything about foreign policy but have a gazillion Twitter followers. Try convincing the world that U.S. technology companies are your new ambassadors, out on a noble mission to spread freedom and democracy around the globe (things not to mention: oil, Iraq, Dick Cheney). Send their CEOs to Siberia, have them play beerpong with the locals. Don't dare mentioning how these very companies abuse freedom and privacy at home, on their own sites. Develop some ambitiously empty buzzword that could make your ridiculous theories sound somewhat convincing (try "21st century statecraft").
Disregard all but the most naïve and dubious assumptions in framing your "Internets problem." Grope for the nearest historical analogy -- the more inappropriate, the better -- and then misread it in a way that would confirm your original thesis. Assume the world hasn't changed since 1989. Remember that "Berlin wall" and "firewall" rhyme; use it to your advantage. Stock up on misleading metaphors that build on "cyber-" and "digital." Commision a few ambitious studies and major conferences to find more non-existing links. Run a grant competition.
Rediscover the toxic ideas behind the Congress for Cultural Freedom and repackage them under the fancier label of Alliance of Youth Movements. Find a bunch of desperate and cash-strapped bloggers from a harsh authoritarian country of your liking -- you'll score bonus points if these hand-picked bloggers-cum-dissidents are completely unknown to anyone who lives there -- and use them as token symbols of your heroic fight to defend the Internets.
Arrange for POTUS to be interviewed by them. If they visit the United States, make sure they meet with a bunch of fringe neocons, keen on promoting regime change in the home countries of your token cyber-dissidents. Think of ways in which to secure a political asylum for them – for they'll probably need one after meeting all these luminaries. Remember to invoke Sakharov when introducing them to the press: as in "Sakharov 2.0." The more "2.0 juice" you spread, the better: hence "samizdat 2.0", "glasnost 2.0," and "Solidarnosc 2.0" (basically, any Slavic-sounding words with a 2.0 ending would strengthen your case – use them excessively - but watch the pronounciation!)
Meet a group of weird Chinese engineers who are equally confused about the "Internets problem" but are convinced that they can solve it through more engineering. Don't question the viability of such approaches: engineers know better. Ensure their solution solves the wrong problems, lacks transparency, and will convince everyone in Tehran and Beijing that they need to double their incarceration rates for bloggers. Verify that the engineers are as excited about 1989 as you are, albeit for different reasons. Make sure they have some bizarre political or religious affiliation that would make your partnership look extremely odd and geopolitically suicidal. Toy with the idea of giving them funding but decide otherwise, pissing off everyone and their uncle in DC.
Go visit the usual think-tanks in search of aging conservatives who feel nostalgic for the last years of the Reagan administration. Begin by telling them how much you appreciate their (otherwise non-existent) role in ending the Soviet Union by smuggling a bunch of Xerox machines. Practice your rudimentary Polish and Hungarian. Hold their hands and salute Reagan's bust on their table. Proceed to enlighten them about blogs, tweets, and social networks. Watch their faces light up when they grasp the full implications of what you are saying. Surprise them by announcing that Cold War is now officialy back in town.
Remind them to go back to their private libraries and dig up that passionate but unpublishable op-ed they wrote in 1987, the one about tearing down the walls and all that. Have them add "cyber-" to every "wall" in that op-ed and advise them to resumbit it to The Wall Street Journal's editorial page. Act surprised on discovering that the last two paragraphs of their op-ed accuse you of not doing enough to support the revolutionary tweets coming out of Tehran.
Lose control of the nascent but increasingly dangerous debate about your favorite Internets. Convince everyone that you used the Internet to organize the post-election protests in Iran; if it fails, get in touch with Twitter executives and leak your communication with them to the New York Times. Continue telling everyone it was Twitter that caused the protests.
Make no effort to educate the public -- and especially editorial boards and policy-makers -- about the utter idiocy, inappropriateness and outright danger of operating on extremely simplistic assumptions about Internet Freedom. Instead, aggressively embrace those assumptions yourself and turn up the volume on your favorite Cold War songs. Dream up some fancy terms like "information curtain." Let everyone figure out what all that stuff actually means.
Distract everyone by dropping periodic references to the success of technology in rebuilding Haiti and monitoring (sham) elections in Sudan. Benefit from the ensuing confusion -- it buys time. Continue meeting with the weird engineers. Don't debunk any overblown and essentially unverifiable claims about the success of their technology in fostering a "Twitter Revolution" in Iran. Then tell everyone how much you care about Internet Freedom. Wait until your refusal to support the engineers looks extremely hypocritical and doesn't match your own overblown rhetoric. Write a check for $ 1.5 million. Start over.
* Inspired by Lorrie Moore's short story "How To Become a Writer" and the recent announcement that the State Department is about to give $1.5 million to Global Internet Freedom Consortium
I'm still on self-imposed vacation from blogging in order to finish my book manuscript, so my comments on Kyrgyzstan will have to be very brief. Food for thought:
First, for obvious geopolitical reasons, pundits are paying much less attention to protests in Kyrgyzstan than they did to protests in Iran and Burma (or even Thailand). If there were no U.S. military bases in Kyrgyzstan, I doubt that this story would ever have made the front page of the New York Times. But social media couldn care less about geopolitics and military bases. Predictably, we see no significant buzz on Twitter; unlike Justin Bieber, the Kyrgyz revolution is not "trending" as a popular topic there.
Unsurprisingly, we don't see much eulogizing about the Internet's "revolutionary power" in the Western media either. But this does not mean we have suddenly become more reflective or less cyber-utopian; it only means that "Kyrgyzstan" is much harder to pronounce than Iran and most people couldn't care less about it; there is no critical tweetering mass that could fuel the kind of collective fantasy that was fueled by "#iranelection" on Twitter. Consequently, there is no pressure on the Western media to dream up non-existent (Twitter-powered!) angles to news stories: getting their viewers/listeners/readers up to speed on what/where Kyrgyzstan is would eat up the whole story anyway. In short: why is there no Twitter revolution in Kyrgyzstan? Becuase there is no one to hype it up.
Second, those who are in the know about Central Asia and could push this story much harder to the fore of public attention are also predictably cautious: Kyrgyzstan's earlier revolution -- the Tulip one -- was not exactly a paragon of democratization. So whatever role social media is playing in today's revolution is poised to be accompanied by much more cautious and much less celebratory rhetoric, for no one could really be sure that the vector of change we are observing in Kyrgyzstan is "towards democracy" (that said, I do think that it's hard to outperform Bakiev's regime when it comes to incompetence and lack of respect for human rights).
Iran, too, wasn't really such an obvious case -- after all, Moussavi, a former Iranian prime minister with quite a few dark spots on his resume, made for a very poor "martyr for democracy" -- but at least Ahmadinejad's evil was fully transparent and was thus very easy to hate (go ask anyone in any small American town what they think about Ahmadinejad and Iran; then try the same trick by asking them about Bakiev/Kyrgyzstan).
Third, based on what I've seen on Twitter -- and I must say I haven't been looking very hard and it's not a scientific sample -- there are quite a few people in the country who are tweeting about what's going on, in Russian/Kyrgyz/English but no one is using Twitter to organize anything (given that the entire revolution was kind of disorganized and spontaneous, it's hard to make an argument that someone organized anything over Twitter).
Besides, all the tweeting/facebooking/blogging that came out of Kyrgyzstan was possible because the previous government was caught by surprise and did not have enough time to cut off all communications. The whole revolution, apparently, appears to be little else but an afterthought: even the opposition was not expecting it to succeed. Obviously, what matters in most revolutionary circumstances is how fast one can disconnect all communications, and, well, the Kyrgyz government has obviously not given much thought to the issue.
Expect that "turn-it-all-off-with-one-click" systems would get really popular with authoritarian rulers (hey, this could be the new "red button"!). At the same time, we'll probably continue seeing the Kyrgyz opposition -- which now technically is no longer in opposition -- rely on Twitter to push their messages to Central Asia watchers/media folks in the West. That's, of course, perfectly rational and I would even say smart. But it's not the kind of spontaneous grassroots-based organizing the pundits were extolling during the events in Iran.
Finally, some pundits have observed that the availability of footage/tweets from Kyrgyzstan would certainly make other dictators rethink their own vulnerability and heed the right lessons. I agree. This is a variation on the "demonstration effect" argument, which, because of the pervasive liberal bias, we usually believe to work only in one direction (example: "Oh, now that the Uzbek activists have seen what's possible in Kyrgyzstan, they too would rise up"; this, of course, can be countered with a completely opposite point: "Oh, now that the Uzbek/Turkmen/Kazakh dictators have seen what's possible in Kyrgyzstan, they too would take preemptive measures"). By this logic, the folks who really learned the most from the Orange Revolution in 2004 were not the anti-government activists in Minsk, but Kremlin operatives in Moscow.
Bottom line: new media played no visible role in organizing the protesters and some role in broadcasting what was happening to the rest of the world (it's not clear though whether this broadcasting had any real impact on the police's ability to control the unruly protesters). That's a preliminary judgement: I have no clue how well the Kyrgyz opposition was organized in reality; based on media reports, it seems like they were not.
Obviously, I've also omitted any discussion about the regional dimensions to this revolution, for the example, the split between Kyrgyzstan's North and South and how both regions were communicating with the capital, and how what happened in each reinforced/undermined developments elsewhere. I'm well aware of that. But this would get us into a much-longer historical conversation about the role of communications (I'd venture that even faxes/telegraphs would do this kind of job -- no need for Internet media or anything of the kind).
For all the hype about "digital revolutions", "analog revolutions" are still the norm, not the exception.
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Big news from Russia today: RBK Daily, a respected Russian news agency, reports (in Russian) that the Russian government might soon be launching a "national search engine". According to RBK's anonymous sources inside Kremlin, it would aim at satisfying "state-oriented" needs such as "facilitating access to safe information" and "filtering web-sites that feature banned content." It's going to be an ambitious project: the government is prepared to invest $100 million in this new venture, does not want to allow any foreign funding, and intends to build it in cooperation with the private sector.
RBK mentions several interesting players that have either been already consulted or would be asked to join soon : Rostelecom (Russia's state-owned telecommunications giant), ABBYY (one of the leading software firms specializing in document recognition and translation - the company was actually founded in Russia in 1989!), and "Ashmanov and Partners" (an Internet consulting firm led by Igor Ashmanov, a pioneer of the Russian Internet and a former senior executive at Rambler, one of Russia's first search engines).
The idea to "nationalize Internet search" comes from Vladislav Surkov, the deputy head of the presidential administration and the mastermind of a recent plan to modernize the country by building Russia's own Silicon Valley (that project is also advancing very rapidly: Viktor Vekselberg, one of Russia's richest people and Kremlin-friendly oligarch, has been appointed to lead the initiative, while Esther Dyson -- a famed American technology investor - has been named
as one of the main candidates to join him as a co-chair UPDATE: Esther Dyson says that these speculations are not true). The
government has warmed up to Surkov's Internet plans -- perhaps, after
hearing the recent news from China -- and Victor Shegolev, Russia's
Minister of Communications has been appointed to curate it.
To understand why Kremlin might be embarking on such a supposedly doomed project, one has to look at the structure of the Russian market for Internet search. As in China, it's a domestic company that controls it: according to just released estimates from LiveInternet, Yandex holds 62.8 percent of the market, with Google holding just 21.9 percent of the Russian market (two other search engines -- Mail.ru and Rambler -- have 8.4 percent and 3 percent respectively). But these figures conceal the fact that Google's share has been growing very rapidly: until 2006 Google has held only a tiny share of the Russian market (around 6 percent ) but it has significantly expanded since then (in 2009 Google's PR chief in Moscow even said that "Russia is a pivotal country for Google").
Now, Kremlin clearly views Yandex as one of the most innovative Russian companies and keeps a very close eye on its operations. In 2009 Sberbank, a state-owned bank, even bought Yandex's "golden share", which gave the state veto power on the sale of more than 25 percent of Yandex's shares (in a recent interview with Kommersant, one of Russia's leading newspapers, Yandex's president explained such a close relationship with the Kremlin by the need to have "transparent rules" for attracting investment, arguing that Yandex "has become part of a national infrastructure" and such close ties with the state are inevitable). When in late 2009, Yandex shut down its list of most popular blog posts in the Russian blogosphere -- which had often been used by activists to push their causes to the national attention -- some read it as a sign of the state's growing control of its activities.
I believe that Kremlin has no interest in destroying Yandex -- it's one of the few Russian companies that are actually very innovative and well-known abroad and Kremlin has plenty of other means to influence where Yandex is going- so the real target of this "nationalization of search" must be Google. The big question is: How good of a Google competitor can the Kremlin really build, given that they have almost unlimited resources (both financial, technological and legal ones)?
We should not underestimate Kremlin's capacity to adapt to the digital realities: they have cultivated a sprawling community of Internet gurus who work or consult for the government (Konstantyn Rykov and Askar Tuganbayev are good examples) and they do have a lot of private sector expertise to draw on.
Earlier today Igor Ashmanov, one of the people that the Kremlin consulted about the "national search engine", gave an interview to the Echo of Moscow, a liberal Russian radio station, where he shared his views about the growing political role of Google and search engines in general and what a national search engine might accomplish in Russia. Ashmanov is one of the most influential people on the Russian Internet and the first and only person familiar with Kremlin's plans to go on the record so far. Even though he does not work for the government, I think his opinions are not that far from what Russian bureaucrats would make of Google's problems in China and its murky future in Russia. Below is my translation of some of his most illuminating quotes (italics mine):
On Google as an instrument of the US government and on its role in China: Google is just another way [for the US government] to tease China for not being a democracy and to get it to barge on certain economic issues. So if the Chinese don't want to weaken renmibi's exchange rate, we [the US government] would say that, from the perspective of a true religion of democracy -- of which the US is the capital - you are heretics and we'll be teasing you for human rights violations and the like until you weaken the rate...
Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, frequently meets with Hillary Clinton, goes to special breakfasts [ at the state department]; the US authorities often say that Google is advancing the causes of democracy in China. How should the Chinese government view this? As an intervention in their affairs. That's exactly what they are doing...Google was founded in a university, it works with intelligence services - the US government would be silly not use it for America's own good.
On the idea of a national search engine: In principle, it's possible to create such a search engine, if you create a strong team, make them co-owners of the project and give them superb technology. It can be Rambler, it can be Aport (an obsolete Russian search engine); those can be revived. Second, the state should make sure there is a [business] environment where such sites can flourish.
A national search engine [may be subsidized so that it] does not need sell any ads in its first few years, which is quite attractive. It has to focus on getting a market share, not making money. Third, it can be installed in all state institutions, on all computers that are assembled in Russia, in all schools, prisons, military institutions, hospitals and so on. This can guarantee it a certain level of traffic; 10-15% is what they can get.
Then one can talk about the owners of Internet resources that are close or loyal to the government -- and we know that there are oligarchs that are socially responsible and close to the state -- and to install this search engine on their own resources. So finally this may lead to a national search engine. This won't help to topple Yandex, but it would help overtake Google, Rambler, and everyone else.
On what would happen if Google wins in Russia: [From a state perspective, if Google wins in Russia], it would be really bad. It would be bad -- and it doesn't matter that some would think that Russia is not a democracy and it does not like it. Even the democratic Europe doesn't like Google's domination...
No one likes it because, first, a search engine is a means of influencing public opinion, and second, it's a source of unique information about what people think and what kind of information they want. Whoever dominates the search market in the country knows what people are searching for; they know the stream of search queries. This is completely unique information, which one can't get anywhere else.
To be fair to Ashmanov, he also expressed some skepticism as to whether the government would be able to pull it off unless they really commit a lot of resources to this project (which, in his view, they aren't doing at the moment.) Nevertheless, his strategy of how such a national search engine might compete with Google seems very realistic to me: if the government does move to leverage the power of the Kremlin-friendly oligarchs -- who own most of the online property on the Russian Internet -- as well as to require all state institutions to make this new search engine their default start page and install it on all new computers sold in Russia -- they may, indeed, gain a significant share of the Russia market. If this is combined with some soft or hard pressure on Google -- think tax raids on their offices or some lengthy litigation of the kind that is now happening in Italy -- it's not unfeasible that a national search engine might steal a significant market share from Google.
This plan for a national search engine is not an isolated development. Earlier this year the government has been debating - without reaching any conclusion -- the plan to give a unique government-run email account to every Russian (supposedly in order to facilitate their access to e-governments services: a unique email account would help to authenticate that the right people are getting the right services).
It also needs to be seen within a global movement launched by many other governments to achieve "information sovereignty" (i.e. distance themselves from Google, which is perceived to be too close to the US government). In fact, I am struck by how much similarity there is between what's happening in Russia, Turkey, and even Iran. In December, I wrote about the Anaposta project launched by the Turkish government in order to do just what the Kremlin wants: build a national search engine and a national email system for every Turkish citizen. In early February, the Iranians announced their own plan for national email (mostly in order to bypass Gmail - which could be interpreted as them just wanting to score propaganda points following the news announcement that Google was talking to NSA).
The idea of national search engines is not new. Europeans have been toying with similar plans for a few years now but to no avail -- there was simply not enough political will in Europe to make that happen (who now talks about Quaero, a much-discussed European alternative to Google that never really took off the ground?). Russia, on the other hand, is a different case: the Kremlin wants to build this new engine for reasons that have nothing to do with national pride or the need to preserve national heritage. All Kremlin wants to do is to establish firmer control over the information flows in the country and given that they have quite a few unfair advantages -- both market-based and legal -- they may as well succeed.
Most interestingly, I am wondering if American diplomats and technology
gurus are shooting themselves in the foot by lending their expertise to
the likes of Surkov. Wouldn't that be ironic if the result of all those luxurious US State Department-funded (UPDATE: according to Esther Dyson, the trip was not paid for by the government) junkets to Siberia would be more tax raids on Google's offices in Moscow?
p.s. As it turns out, Estonia already has a national email system, which proves that this is not impossible. For more details, please see this. The only difference: Estonians have access to any other email services, while Iranians may soon have no choice.
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While the whole world is watching what Google is going to do in China, Chinese Internet companies are quietly expanding their global operations. The latest company to do so is AliBaba.com, the country's biggest business-to-business website, which is rapidly increasing its presence in Brazil.
Recently it has partnered with Ludatrade, a Hong Kong company, and expects a growth rate of 30 to 50 percent (disclosure: Yahoo owns 40 percent of Alibaba and my current Georgetown fellowship is endowed by them). Apparently, Alibaba already has 156,000 users in the country.
Earlier this year, we saw another interesting development: In January 2010, Shanda Games, China's largest operator of online games, paid $60 million in cash and $20 million in equity for MochiMedia, a San Francisco-based Flash game advertising network and payments platform.
A question posed on TechCrunch, a technology blog, in relation to that acquisition and the future of relationship between China and Silicon Valley in light of Google's debacle was a good one:
Chinese Web companies are building huge cash hoards and valuable stock currencies and it's still a comparatively young Web market. Increasingly, these companies could be likely buyers of US startups—not the other way around. Will the Valley's rhetoric stick then?
By "Valley's rhetoric," they probably meant putting freedom and human rights ahead of business interests.
But that's not at all: check this 2009 map (pdf) that visualizes China's tech expansion (the map comes from Mobinode, a group blog about Asian tech industry). It clearly shows China's investments into India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Russia, Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Brazil, Japan to name just a few (many of them are in the gaming industry). According to this recent article in (the government-owned) China Daily, even Chinese online encyclopedias are now expanding abroad, mostly to target Chinese living abroad (primarily in the U.S.).
Well, let me add a conjecture of my own: if Chinese companies are not allowed to buy oil and transportation firms here in the U.S., they will soon start buying Internet firms. Now, that's a neat way to undermine "Internet freedom" from within. It's only a matter of time before the U.S. Congress starts ringing alarm bells about the Chinese Internet takeover.
To read more about how China's Internet and software companies are trying to expand globally, take a look at this article from Seeking Alpha, this post from MobiNode and SiliconHutong blog. This Jan 2010 piece from Reuters offers some more excellent analysis on the problems faced by Chinese companies seeking global expansion.
A week has passed since the U.S. Treasury announced it was going to lift a ban on the export of online services like instant messaging, chat, and photo sharing to Iran, Cuba, and Sudan. This was an ineffective ban to begin with: Anyone who wanted to use tools like Google Chrome could already do so by using proxies to download it. I am curious what happens to commercial software; I am pretty sure that Iranians won't be able to download American software for which they have to pay, as American businesses can't do business with Iran unless they go through a complicated process of obtaining a waiver.
Nevertheless, lifting the ban on this fine assortment of free software is a small step in the right direction. But U.S. officials shouldn't stop there, for they still haven't addressed a much more important problem, namely the fact that Iranians still do not have access to the same tools for supporting their websites as bloggers and Web entrepreneurs elsewhere. They can't, for example, use Google AdWords to generate cash from showing ads on their sites: Google doesn't list Iran as an option in any of the menus available on Google AdWords. This is hardly surprising given blanket restrictions that American companies face when doing business with Iran -- but Google could at least be publicly voicing those concerns rather than simply embracing the Treasury's decision with open arms. I have yet to see a Google rep publicly complain about the inability to sell Google ads in Iran.
As I've already blogged about here, keeping Iranians out of Google ads creates an extremely unhealthy environment where Iranian Internet projects -- even the most popular ones -- can't finance themselves and have to rely on handouts from foundations and Western governments. This, of course, further taints their reputation in the eyes of the regime, as any foreign funding is perceived as a precursor of a revolution. Granted cashing a U.S. check from Google in Iran may not be an easy walk either, but I am sure that it would create fewer risks than cashing a check from any of the 60 organizations identified by the Iranian government as enemies of the state. Without introducing such granularity into its own sanctions regime, the U.S. government pushes its most loyal supporters in Iran toward taking risks that are completely unnecessary.
The wiki, which is still in its early stages with a little over 1700 accessible articles, provides the Ikhwan perspective of their own history and events in which they were involved or believe to be closely tied to their Islamic or political cause--a mini Ikhwan library for those who don't have access to the Brotherhood's literature or to writings by their thinkers that are available in some Islamic bookstores.
Under the section "Ideology of the group" a wide range of subjects can be found, with politics and religion interweaving--as is the case with the Brotherhood's dogma itself. Essays published on the wiki involve abstract concepts like freedom and matters of spirituality. One essay is titled "Love in God"--a concept directly connected to the idea that Muslims should love and ally with other pious Muslims and avoid "sinners," or those who have strayed from the right path.
...The wiki also links to Brotherhood forums and websites and is hosted by a server based in the United States, which makes it near impossible for Egypt's internet watchdogs at the Interior Ministry to crackdown on the site as they did several years earlier with the first website, which was hosted from Egypt.
Evgeny Morozov, originally from Belarus, is a visiting scholar at Stanford and a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.
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I'm still creating math models for that, but I have other priorities in P2P project now.
"Picture to People" (P2P) is a huge Computer Graphics project. It was started to create new softwares able to make 2D drawing, 3D rendering, vexel drawing, text effects, photo effects, image filtering and other complex Computer Graphics operations. It has been made from scratch, including its low level Computer Graphics libraries like Maccala. Nowadays, most final features produced for this project are released as free online tools available from its official website. This blog talks about Computer Graphics, mainly concerning Picture to People development.
Cool! How can I get this software to test out?
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Whipsnade Wild Animal Park celebrates its first Asian elephant birth
Whipsnade Wild Animal Park's new born Asian elephant calf will be making her first public appearance today, Tuesday 30th March. The female calf, born on Tuesday 16th March to 22 year old mother, Kaylee, weighed in at a whopping 149kg on arrival and will be an important addition to the breeding programme for this endangered species.
The calf is about 99 centimetres tall and has a fluffy layer of hair all her over body. She was standing about 10 minutes after birth. The calf is already proving to be a real character; she calls very loudly to mum when she's hungry and enjoys playing around with her doting aunt Lucha.
After enduring a pregnancy of 21 months and a labour of three hours, Kaylee is proving to be an excellent mother and has been keeping a protective eye on her lively youngster as she meets the rest of the female elephants at Whipsnade.
The calf's father, Emmett , was brought over from America in November 1997, to become the breeding male at Whipsnade, while already taking part in the international breeding programme; his semen has been used in artificial insemination of other female elephants around the world.
The calf has been busy exploring but has not yet gained full control of her trunk which may take up to three months! The baby elephant is suckling from Kaylee and will continue to do so for about a year. By the time she is nine months old, 40% of her diet will be hay and vegetables.
Lee Sambrook, Whipsnade Wild Animal Park's Senior Elephant Keeper said, "After such a long pregnancy, we are all very excited about the birth. Both mother and calf are doing well and we are delighted that the calf is going from strength to strength. The rest of the herd are all looking forward to meeting the new addition to the family."
Kaylees' pregnancy was carefully monitored throughout the 21 months, by one of the world's top elephant reproduction experts, Dr Thomas Hildebrandt, by scanning the elephant at regular intervals and also assisting in the delivery of the calf. The research carried out by Dr Hildebrandt has not only been crucial in helping staff at Whipsnade deliver the healthy calf, but he will also use the knowledge gained to developed best practice for international elephant reproduction.
The keepers not only worked with an international expert, but scientists at ZSL also worked to confirm the pregnancy by testing hormone levels. This was done by collecting blood and urine samples and assessing whether the elephant was pregnant and also predicting the due date for delivery. It is hoped that this research will be used in field projects with wild populations.
Whipsnade, in conjunction with other European Zoos, is working to ensure the long-term survival of elephants, by providing 'back up' populations and valuable research data. The situation for Asian elephants in the wild is now so precarious that, if the present rate of decline continues, they are facing extinction of a sustainable population within 30 years.
"Elephant populations have been declining steadily due to poaching and habitat destruction, and this little calf will eventually become an important part the international breeding programme for Asian elephants." said Chris West, Zoological Director, ZSL.
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- Calf is yet to be named.
- The elephant paddock at Whipsnade covers an area of over seven acres and comprises of five linked outside areas including a large grass paddock as well as two separate houses. Additional facilities include two pools, mud wallows and dust baths, as well as rubbing posts, shades for summer and high level feeders.
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- Diet: hay, fruit, twigs, small branches, bark & roots
- Trunks are very muscular (having over 60,000 muscles) and are made up of the nose and upper lip.
- The tusks are modified incisor teeth and in female Asian elephants they remain small
- The Asian elephants world wide population stands at between 37,000-57,000
- The most obvious difference between African and Asian elephants is the size of the ears. Asian elephants have smaller bodies and much smaller ears. The end of the trunk ends in one finger-like projection instead of two, like the African elephant. They also have 2 domes on their forehead and the end of the trunk as one finger-like projection present as opposed to two in the African
- Elephants can't jump
- Average birth weight of captive Asian Calf is 91 kg
- Baby elephants are usually dependent on mother's milk for at least three years, although they can be weaned at two years of age. The mother's milk is highly nutritious but has low fat content (0.63%-6.2%). By the time a calf is nine months old, 40% of its diet is vegetation. The calf learns how and what to eat by watching the older elephants
- Females give birth within the family group and other females often called 'aunties', but the correct term is allo-mother. These helpers play an important role by playing with and watching out for the new baby, allowing the mother time to rest and eat, which is important for lactation (milk production)
- The calf will also eat small amounts of older animal's dung which helps them acquire necessary microbes to aid digestion
- The elephant calf can use other senses to learn about its environment like, chemical and tactile information received through its trunk
- It takes time, however, to acquire trunk coordination. At first the calf may only be able to wave it around in the air, suck on it or trip over it, however within a week the calf has usually gained enough control to try picking up and carrying small objects and food
- You can adopt the Whipsnade elephant calf for £45


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