<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312</id><updated>2010-08-29T15:02:17.633-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Elämää Potomac-joen varrella</title><subtitle type='html'>Life by the Potomac River</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default?orderby=updated'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;orderby=updated'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-547964451623675862</id><published>2010-01-12T14:24:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-12T16:56:18.306-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='avoin_yhteiskunta avoimuus henkisyys ajatus'/><title type='text'>Uusi vuosi, uusi vuosikymmen, uudet kujeet</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Avoimuus uutena(?) perusparadigmana?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jostain on aloitettava. Suurinkin marssi alkaa yksittäisellä askelella. .. Joka ei edes aina vie eteenpäin.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tyhjän sivun (lue: vähän, harvoin ja hajanaisesti kirjaillun blogin) kammo(?), Epäonnistumisen pelko, Väärinymmärretyksi tulemisen angsti, noin muutama mainitakseni, ovat luullakseni yksiä suurimmista syistä siihen, että ihmiset eivät jaa kokemuksiaan ja ajatuksiaan enemmän ja laajemmin (lue: netissä). Eikä em. listaa olisi vaikea jatkaa yhtä tummilla lausumilla.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Siinä missä vanha viisaus kertoo, että tieto (tai tarkemmin sanottuna: tiedon panttaaminen ja epäsymmetrisesti jakaminen) on valtaa, alkaa olla yhä selvempää, että tällä vuosisadalla/-tuhannella(?!) tiedon (ja kokemusten) &lt;i&gt;jakaminen&lt;/i&gt; on valtaa. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tuosta viimevuosituhantisesta (ja sitäkin edeltäneestä) tiedon ja sen panttaamisen vallasta on juuri nyt, uuden vuosituhannen ensimmäisen vuosikymmenen viisastuttamana, hyvä ottaa välitön pesäero, ilmoittaa näin koruttomasti sivulauseessa Avoin yhteiskunta -yhdistys perustetuksi, piut paut välittää (tämän tai muiden kirjoitusten) kielioppikysymyksistä - ainakaan näin henkilökohtaisessa blogissa, ja alkaa toimia tämän edellä viittelöidyn "avoimuuden ja jakamisen" paradigman mukaisesti. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tässä tulikin samalla uuden vuoden ja vuosikymmenen lupaus lausutuksi ääneen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Todisteena #1" esitän Naamakirjan (tuon suljetun järjestelmän) sisällä esittämäni kommentin erään ystävän angstiseen kommenttiin, josta röyhkeästi lupaa kysymättä julkaisen pienen osan:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"&gt;&lt;h3 class="GenericStory_Message" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;"(...) Kun ei tää ihmisen elo nyt oikein vörki, aina pitää olla kapinallinen kaikessa (...) ja masentua kaikesta. Höh."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'times new roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;... sekä itseoikeutetusti oman kommenttini tähän:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);   font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;"Olet Suurien Viisauksien äärellä: Sanovat, että Havahtunut Elämä (tjsp) alkaa siitä, kun ihminen miettii vakavasti onko hän hullu - vai ovatko muut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ihan vakavasti, masennusta / nykysuomeksi: syvää - ja vähän vähemmänkin syvää - vitutusta on syytä kuunnella ja helliä sen ansaitsemalla intiimillä läheisyydellä.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Masennuksesta puhuttaessa, sattumalta silmiini osunut &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=x9R-Xbb7ag8C&amp;amp;dq=Unstuck+James+Gordon"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;Unstuck&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Unstuck+James+Gordon"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;James Gordon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;) käsittelee asiaa mielestäni Oikeassa kokonaisuudessa (.. sen pohjalta mitä olen sitä sieltä täältä selaillut, kirjan alkupäästä lukenut) - vastaavia fiksuja kokonaisuuksia on varmasti iso kasa muitakin. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gordonin lähestyminen menee paljon henkisen puolen sisällön tärkeyteen ja komppaa tässä paljon sitä mitä/mistä es. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=de+mello"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;Anthony&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://linkit.hel.cc/demello-texts@demello_org"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://linkit.hel.cc/demello-awakening@youtube"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;Mello&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Pema+Ch%C3%B6dr%C3%B6n"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;Pema&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=28&amp;amp;Itemid=105"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;Chödrön&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://linkit.hel.cc/tolle-the_power_of_now"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;Eckhart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://linkit.hel.cc/Tolle-A_New_Earth"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;Tolle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; ja/tai &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;Gandhi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; kirjoittavat/-ivat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olen jättänyt kolmen ensiksimainitun (Gordon-Chödrön) kirjoja Suomeen ystäville, osaksi yhteisille tutuillekin. Nakkaa viestiä tai pirauta, jos haluat lainata, niin yhytän.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For what it's worth."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-547964451623675862?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/547964451623675862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=547964451623675862' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/547964451623675862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/547964451623675862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2010/01/uusi-vuosi-uusi-vuosikymmen-uudet.html' title='Uusi vuosi, uusi vuosikymmen, uudet kujeet'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-2995844218811993546</id><published>2009-03-30T14:57:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T16:53:13.123-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thought'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intimacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='networking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Connecting online &amp; spheres of intimacy</title><content type='html'>The questions of how, through which services and with whom to connect online are in many people's minds. The social media scene is developing rapidly and the social norms within it are still in their earlyish stages of development. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here's a reply I sent to a friend of a friend (whom I've never met to my knowledge .. pardon my bad memory if I have!) that explains my thoughts on the issue for my part:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande'; border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Hi,&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I appreciate your friend request. The web is such a wonderful enabler for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity"&gt;serendipitous&lt;/a&gt; connections - which often prove to be immensely valuable!  I find it quite  interesting to see &amp;amp; follow how the social media scene is in a turbulent phase of development, how practices to use different tools are evolving continuously and quite rapidly - and how different people use different tools and services so .. well, differently.   As for me and connecting with people online: While I like to establish connections with new interesting people in many services I use -- I think that that's really the only way to allow the power of serendipity (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail"&gt;The Long Tail&lt;/a&gt;, really) to kick in -- I realize that Facebook for me is essentially a place to foster connections I've created elsewhere (in the physical world, other social media services, FB groups, etc). For me it's a question of privacy and different spheres if intimacy.   But as said, I'm always open to connecting with new interesting people. My preferred mode of connecting with new people is microblogging: I can be found at &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jaakkoh"&gt;http://twitter.com/jaakkoh&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://identi.ca/jaakkoh"&gt;http://identi.ca/jaakkoh&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://jaakkoh.jaiku.com"&gt;http://jaakkoh.jaiku.com&lt;/a&gt; (for opensource alternatives). Of these Twitter is my current "de facto standard" of online discussions.  Other social media services I use can be found via my &lt;a href="http://sn.im/jaakko-google"&gt;Google Profile&lt;/a&gt;.  Cheers, -Jaakko&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-2995844218811993546?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/2995844218811993546/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=2995844218811993546' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/2995844218811993546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/2995844218811993546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2009/03/connecting-online-spheres-of-intimacy.html' title='Connecting online &amp; spheres of intimacy'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-3749792169282354601</id><published>2009-01-31T16:03:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-31T16:07:12.839-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>The Bailout - Coming this January</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w8OfbWs6wtg/SYS8wi6PoUI/AAAAAAABSRc/WKcJsCF0poY/s1600-h/20081209-the-bailout-shitty-cars--We%27re+The+Big+Three.+We+Don%27t+Need+to+Compete-742126.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w8OfbWs6wtg/SYS8wi6PoUI/AAAAAAABSRc/WKcJsCF0poY/s320/20081209-the-bailout-shitty-cars--We%27re+The+Big+Three.+We+Don%27t+Need+to+Compete-742126.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297566603885388098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;I ran into this _super_ hilarious pseudo ad about the Big Three (automaker) bailout (thanks to my brother).&lt;p&gt;The picture of the ad is posted at the website of The Beast (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Beast"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Beast&lt;/a&gt;) at &lt;a href="http://buffalobeast.com/133/bigthree.jpg"&gt;http://buffalobeast.com/133/bigthree.jpg&lt;/a&gt; . The main page of the newspaper is of course &lt;a href="http://buffalobeast.com/"&gt;http://buffalobeast.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ps. This post was sent directly from Picasa. I want to check if/how email posting to Blogger works like this.. And realize that at least there's no way to make hyperlinks (as that should be done in HTML/Rich text, which Picasa email doesn't support). Hopefully at least the attached photo shows decently.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-3749792169282354601?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/3749792169282354601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=3749792169282354601' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3749792169282354601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3749792169282354601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2009/01/bailout-coming-this-january.html' title='The Bailout - Coming this January'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w8OfbWs6wtg/SYS8wi6PoUI/AAAAAAABSRc/WKcJsCF0poY/s72-c/20081209-the-bailout-shitty-cars--We%27re+The+Big+Three.+We+Don%27t+Need+to+Compete-742126.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-1861651441376764081</id><published>2008-12-14T18:00:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T20:35:53.803-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='my recommendations'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web services'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alexandria'/><title type='text'>Google Street View in DC area &amp; George's good service</title><content type='html'>Google Maps &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View"&gt;Street View&lt;/a&gt; has finally arrived to &lt;a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/11/google_maps_street_view_comes.html"&gt;Washington DC area&lt;/a&gt; (along with the expansion of the Street view to nearly all of the US).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Street View is just fantastic. It enables anyone to take very real-feel virtual walks. Quite convenient for many situations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To give an example: We have found an excellent car repair shop just a block away from where we live. If you want to check it out see a Google Street View view of George's Foreign Car Service below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/sv?cbp=12,313.2880545240773,,0,5&amp;amp;cbll=38.807046,-77.053278&amp;amp;panoid=&amp;amp;v=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;gl=us" scrolling="no" width="425" frameborder="0" height="240"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=1306+Cameron+St.,+Alexandria,+VA+22314&amp;amp;sll=38.812142,-77.048514&amp;amp;sspn=0,359.984615&amp;amp;g=1306+Cameron+St.,+Alexandria,+VA+22314&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=38.817107,-77.049265&amp;amp;spn=0.007725,0.015385&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;iwloc=addr&amp;amp;layer=c&amp;amp;cbll=38.807046,-77.053278&amp;amp;panoid=BCM-ZscvfslMWoUJNaVJ8Q&amp;amp;cbp=12,313.2880545240773,,0,5&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;"&gt;View Larger Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;George's Foreign Car Service &lt;/span&gt;(at approx. 1306 Cameron St. - between North Payne Street and North West Street, tel. (703) 684-2002)&lt;br /&gt;Short URL to street view http://snipr.com/georges-car-service&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And while at it, our house on the next block:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/sv?cbp=12,62.85046857458233,,0,5&amp;amp;cbll=38.807346,-77.053219&amp;amp;panoid=&amp;amp;v=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;gl=us" scrolling="no" width="425" frameborder="0" height="240"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=1306+Cameron+St.,+Alexandria,+VA+22314&amp;amp;sll=38.812142,-77.048514&amp;amp;sspn=0,359.984615&amp;amp;g=1306+Cameron+St.,+Alexandria,+VA+22314&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=38.817107,-77.049265&amp;amp;spn=0.007725,0.015385&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;iwloc=addr&amp;amp;layer=c&amp;amp;cbll=38.807346,-77.053219&amp;amp;panoid=02zqL0U2s0fNsM7g1T9EzA&amp;amp;cbp=12,62.85046857458233,,0,5&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;"&gt;View Larger Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-1861651441376764081?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/1861651441376764081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=1861651441376764081' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/1861651441376764081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/1861651441376764081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/12/google-street-view-in-dc-area-georges.html' title='Google Street View in DC area &amp; George&apos;s good service'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-805799271788224184</id><published>2008-12-03T21:44:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-03T21:54:10.662-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='my recommendations'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dotsub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finnish'/><title type='text'>Blogien ja muiden syötteiden seuraamisesta</title><content type='html'>This post is about my recommendation for following blogs/feeds: Check out the Common Craft video below. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syötteet noin ylipäänsä ovat huisin kätevä tapa seurata päivittyviä nettisivuja. Siis esim. blogeja, uutisia, säätietoja, jne jne. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jos homma ei ole selvä kuin pläkki, niin tsekkaapa havainnollinen video asiasta. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tämä dotSub-nimisestä palvelusta löytyvä &lt;a href="http://commoncraft.com"&gt;Common Craft&lt;/a&gt; -nimisen firman tekemä video kertoo seikkaperäisesti mitä syötteet ovat ja miten voit seurata niitä kätevästi tämän hetken parhaalla syötelukijalla, Google Readerilla (siis Google lukijalla). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://dotsub.com/media/f79f1b5e-bea1-43ab-97fb-666544aaf0bf/e/m/fin" frameborder="0" width="420" height="347"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;dotSub on mainio palvelu siinä mielessä, että sinne ladatut videot voi tekstittää joko videon palveluun lataava henkilö tai kuka tahansa muu käyttäjä. Ja tämän tekstityksen voi sitten kääntää mille tahansa maailman kielelle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tässä videossa on oma ensimmäinen käännökseni: englannista suomeksi, tietty. Suomenkielisen tekstityksen pitäisi näkyä automaattisesti. Jos ei näy, niin valitse pudotusvalikosta kuvan oikeasta alakulmasta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EDIT: Tekstitys ei näy mun selaimessa ollenkaan. Jos se kiinnostaa, niin videon löydät linki &lt;a href="http://www.snipr.com/dotsub-greader"&gt;www.snipr.com/dotsub-greader&lt;/a&gt; -kautta&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-805799271788224184?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/805799271788224184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=805799271788224184' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/805799271788224184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/805799271788224184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/12/blogien-ja-muiden-sytteiden.html' title='Blogien ja muiden syötteiden seuraamisesta'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-671468291994869186</id><published>2008-12-03T06:55:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-03T06:55:00.588-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suomalaisuus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finnish'/><title type='text'>Kauneutta - Nocturne</title><content type='html'>Postataanpa tänne avoimeen Intternjettiinkin oheisen aamukahvihetken inspiraation ja Facebook-"keskustelun"/viestivaihdon aiheesta: mainio tulkinta Wessbergin sävellyksestä Eino Leinon runoon Nocture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tämä kiitokseksi &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/Riisisuurimo"&gt;Riisisuurimolle&lt;/a&gt; viideosta ja mainion tulkinnan jakamiseksi - kun tiedän ainakin yhden ihmisen tätä lukevan :).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Share the love!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/64ghgsA4lTw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/64ghgsA4lTw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arin kommentti:&lt;br /&gt;"Hieno tulkinta Eino Leinon runosta Nocturne (Wessbergin [sic!] sävellys)." [Wessberg -&gt; &lt;a href="http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taisto_Wesslin"&gt;Taisto Wesslin&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joo. On hieno. Nocturne on ollut pitkään yks mun suosikkibiisejä. &lt;a href="http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesa-Matti_Loiri"&gt;Vesku Loirin&lt;/a&gt; alkuperäis&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNlBrJkvzg0"&gt;versio&lt;/a&gt; ensimmäiseltä &lt;a href="http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eino_Leino_(albumi)"&gt;Eino Leino -levyltään&lt;/a&gt; 70-luvun lopulta on ollut listan kärjessä (joskin myös ainoa, josta mulla on ollut äänite..).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olen lapsuudesta asti kokenut runossa ja Wessbergin sävellyksessä jotain syvää suomalaista sielunmaisemaa - enkä selvästikään ole fiilisten kanssa yksin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kohtuullisen äskettäistä keskustelua runosta &lt;a href="http://kemppinen.blogspot.com/2008/06/eino-leino.html"&gt;Jukka Kemppisen blogissa&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-671468291994869186?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/671468291994869186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=671468291994869186' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/671468291994869186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/671468291994869186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/12/kauneutta-nocturne.html' title='Kauneutta - Nocturne'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-6337223270739543078</id><published>2008-11-23T20:47:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T20:47:01.641-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thought'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>What's in a percentage?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w8OfbWs6wtg/SSm-RkYeo_I/AAAAAAABEBs/aLiGrA-4XzU/s1600-h/DSC_0174.JPG'&gt;&lt;img src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w8OfbWs6wtg/SSm-RkYeo_I/AAAAAAABEBs/aLiGrA-4XzU/s320/DSC_0174.JPG' border='0' alt=''style='clear:both;float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question of the day is: &lt;br /&gt;What is X in X - 68% = 1%? &lt;br /&gt;.. And how is this linked to presidential elections?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I came across this "puzzle" on the side of a milk carton that stated that the 1% fat containing milk has 68% less fat than whole milk. And it reminded me of the numerous times I've tried to help people understand &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage"&gt;percentage&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One reason this struck me was that I was nearly fooled for a fraction of a second. Reading the text one could think that whole milk has 69% of fat in it - which is obviously not the right answer. Whole milk has about 3% of fat and taking out 68%, about two thirds that is, leaves 1%. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason people get confused with percentages is that they are thinking adding and subtracting. And in percentages it's about dividing and multiplying (and some adding or subtracting). That is, unless you'd say: 1% reduced fat milk has two percent&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;age points&lt;/span&gt; less fat than full milk. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And to wrap up this uninteresting windy blabber about percentages I wanna link this to the presidential elections - the reason I was probably open to think about this in the first place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The thing is that people don't think about the difference between percentages and percentage points when they think about election results, which makes them misunderstand the vote differences between candidates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See, for example in the Obama-McCain race Obama got some 52.5% of all votes and McCain got got 46.2% (reports &lt;a href="http://Pollster.com"&gt;Pollster.com&lt;/a&gt; my favorite poll site). And while the difference between the two was 6.3 percent&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;age points&lt;/span&gt; Obama got 13.2% more votes than McCain [(52.5-46.2)/46.2]*100%.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-6337223270739543078?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/6337223270739543078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=6337223270739543078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/6337223270739543078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/6337223270739543078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/11/whats-in-percentage.html' title='What&apos;s in a percentage?'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w8OfbWs6wtg/SSm-RkYeo_I/AAAAAAABEBs/aLiGrA-4XzU/s72-c/DSC_0174.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-5014148020233071638</id><published>2008-11-20T09:22:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-21T12:59:23.132-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='omia merkintöjä'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='valokuva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finnish'/><title type='text'>Ensihiutaleet</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;Leijailivat taivaalta eilen &lt;br /&gt;aamulla metrolle kävellessä.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Molemmat. &lt;br /&gt;Kirpeä kuulas syysaamu.&lt;br /&gt;Nosti mieleen jouluodotuksen.&lt;br /&gt;Hong Kong - Shanghai - Peking - Phuket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhettä ja ystäviä. &lt;br /&gt;Tuskin maltan odottaa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Töihin tullessa muistin kääntää uuden sivun mainiosta &lt;a href="http://www.taivasalla.net"&gt;Taivasalla.net&lt;/a&gt;-seinäkalenteristä. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marraskuun valokuva osui jotenkin erityisen suoraan vanhojen ystävien muistelufiilikseen. Kuvassa sattuu (käsittääkseni) olemaan taustalla hyvän ystäni Mikon kotitalo. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kuva samasta paikasta &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bIGjN1WFTQd35Y1CtfjZEg"&gt;alla&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width: auto;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bIGjN1WFTQd35Y1CtfjZEg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_w8OfbWs6wtg/RQsc0lTXABI/AAAAAAAAAOY/WsGVvK8WG1Q/s144/041120_1306_1024x768--%C2%A4%C2%A4%C2%A4%C2%A4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right;"&gt;From &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jhelleranta/TaivasallaNetValikoitujaOtoksia"&gt;taivasalla.net - valikoituja otoksia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Kuva: Niklas Sjöblom (&lt;a href="http://snipr.com/cc-by-nc-nd"&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt; -lisensoitu)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sano mitä sanot, mutta kuvat ovat voimakkaita. Erityisesesti hyvät kuvat. Erityisesti lapsuuden hyviä muistoja mieleen tuovat sellaiset.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-5014148020233071638?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/5014148020233071638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=5014148020233071638' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/5014148020233071638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/5014148020233071638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/11/ensihiutaleet.html' title='Ensihiutaleet'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_w8OfbWs6wtg/RQsc0lTXABI/AAAAAAAAAOY/WsGVvK8WG1Q/s72-c/041120_1306_1024x768--%C2%A4%C2%A4%C2%A4%C2%A4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-114983719883409868</id><published>2008-11-13T23:33:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-13T23:37:15.169-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>The economy and the job market in 2009</title><content type='html'>Brilliant!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://share.ovi.com/flash/player.aspx?media=jaakkoh.10041&amp;amp;channelname=jaakkoh.public" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;via Minna. Thanks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-114983719883409868?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/114983719883409868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=114983719883409868' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/114983719883409868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/114983719883409868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/11/economy-and-job-market-in-2009.html' title='The economy and the job market in 2009'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-2399656279965788014</id><published>2008-11-09T21:16:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T21:34:19.526-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='american experiences'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>A new day for the U.S. of A</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Hey - that rimes!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;... Which is good because I want to share with you the latest brilliant music video from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will.i.am" mce_href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will.i.am"&gt;Will.i.am&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHWByjoQrR8" mce_href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHWByjoQrR8"&gt;"It's A New Day"&lt;/a&gt;. See for yourself (embedded below):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RHWByjoQrR8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RHWByjoQrR8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;As you may have heard, will.i.am has earlier released two powerful songs (as online music videos) related to the Obama campaign: &lt;a href="http://yeswecan.dipdive.com/" mce_href="http://yeswecan.dipdive.com/"&gt;Yes We Can&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://dippolitics.dipdive.com/#/%7E/videoplayer/0/520/1598/%7E/" mce_href="http://dippolitics.dipdive.com/#/~/videoplayer/0/520/1598/~/"&gt;We Are the Ones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Both music videos were released on &lt;a href="http://dipdive.com/" mce_href="http://dipdive.com"&gt;DipDive.com&lt;/a&gt;, an interesting online video service that promotes promising musicians and that has an interesting political advocacy twist -- at least after these releases.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I feel so profoundly good watching and listening to will.i.am's lates piece. And reflecting on the things that have happened in the last half a year. And regardless of how things will turn out, I think that this country has so deserved this current over "hype", which is not about supremacy but about hope.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;... Véase también: &lt;a href="http://yeswecan.dipdive.com/#/%7E/videoplayer/0/385/2752/%7E/" mce_href="http://yeswecan.dipdive.com/#/~/videoplayer/0/385/2752/~/"&gt;Podemos con Obama&lt;/a&gt; (un otro vídeo de música brillante ... tjsp).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-2399656279965788014?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/2399656279965788014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=2399656279965788014' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/2399656279965788014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/2399656279965788014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/11/new-day-for-us-of.html' title='A new day for the U.S. of A'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-7908061087975016020</id><published>2008-11-05T09:50:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T10:07:04.880-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>How this happened</title><content type='html'>As I just wrote in Finnish the Obama victory is an incredible example of the power of individuals to impact huge issues. Like Obama has said so many times: Ordinary people can do extraordinary things, when they work together. That's what this was and is all about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blogosphere and the web are full of excellent analysis on this and so many other related issues so I won't even try to make a thorough analysis in this post. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I just wanted to share this email from Obama to give those of you who haven't subscribed to his email list one glimpse into how the campaign has been run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;From: Barack Obama&lt;br /&gt;Date: 2008/11/5 2:20 am&lt;br /&gt;Subject: How this happened&lt;br /&gt;To: Jaakko Helleranta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jaakko --&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We just made history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I don't want you to forget how we did it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You made history every single day during this campaign -- every day you knocked on doors, made a donation, or talked to your family, friends, and neighbors about why you believe it's time for change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to thank all of you who gave your time, talent, and passion to this campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes next.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I want to be very clear about one thing...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of this happened because of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barack&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wonderful inspiration. And a beautiful example of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail"&gt;The Long Tail&lt;/a&gt; at work. .. More on that later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. In case you're interested: My Obama-related bookmarks are tagged &lt;a href="http://delicious.com/jaakkoh/obama"&gt;Obama&lt;/a&gt; in Delicious. I warmly encourage you to start using one of these &lt;a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english"&gt;social bookmarking&lt;/a&gt; (excellent short video explaining social bookmarkin by Common Craft) services.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-7908061087975016020?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/7908061087975016020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=7908061087975016020' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/7908061087975016020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/7908061087975016020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/11/how-this-happened.html' title='How this happened'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-8512516436429527548</id><published>2008-11-05T09:05:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T09:50:43.540-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finnish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Kuinkas tässä näin kävi?</title><content type='html'>Obaman voitto on hurja esimerkki yksiloiden mahdollisuuksista vaikuttaa ratkaisevalla tavalla suuriin kokonaisuuksiin. Kampajan ammensi internetin suomia mahdollisuuksia rakentaen ikiaikaisen amerikkalaisen paikallistason osallistuuden päälle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voimaistamisen (empowerment) ja myos demokratian ideaalien riemuvoitto. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kuten Pleksille kirjoitin, on ollut valtavan inspiroivaa nähdä tätä vaalityota ja omalla, varsin pienellä panoksella, osallistua siihen. Erinäisiä hurjia tarinoita kampanjaan osallistumisesta kuunnellessa tekee todella mieli painottaa oman osallistumisen vähäisyyttä. Vaan samalla ymmärtää hyvin sen mitä Kampanja on toitottanut kaiken aikaa: että pienista puroista on tämä suuri virta kasvatettu. Tästä oiva esimerkki seuraavassa lontoonmurteisessa postauksessa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Palaan paremmalla ajalla niin fiiliksiin kuin eri näkokulmiin. Nyt sorvin ääreen, kun (tunnustaa täytyy, että) duunit jäivät eilen aika vähälle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitk%C3%A4_h%C3%A4nt%C3%A4"&gt;Pitkä häntä rulettaa&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-8512516436429527548?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/8512516436429527548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=8512516436429527548' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/8512516436429527548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/8512516436429527548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/11/kuinkas-tss-nin-kvi.html' title='Kuinkas tässä näin kävi?'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-254052745778126133</id><published>2008-11-04T22:54:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T00:03:23.172-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obma'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='american experiences'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finnish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Uuden ajan alku</title><content type='html'>Huojentunut, hyvä fiilis. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Siihen on helppo tiivistää tuntemukset tässä vaiheessa (klo 22.55 EST - "itäistä talviaikaa") kisakatsomossamme Washington DC:n Capitol Hill kaupunginosassa kolmisentoista korttelia Capitolista suoraan itään. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oma ennustukseni Obaman n. 344 valitsijamiesäänestä reilun viikon takaa vaatinee hieman justeerausta ylöspäin. Florida näyttää paremmalta kuin osasin toivoa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fox News on juuri ennustanut Virginian valitsijamiesäänien menevän Obamalle ja hetkeä aikaisemmin New Mexicon. Floridassa tilanne Obamalla on kaulaa liki 300 tuhatta ääntä, kun kaikista äänistä on laskettu liki 90 prosenttia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... klo 22.59 myös CNN julisti Virginian Obamalle ... Tämä on historiallinen voitto, joka nosti aikamoisen kiljunnan katsomossa. Ensimmäistä kertaa sitten 60-luvun alun punaniskakotiosavaltiomme on päätynyt demokraateille. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... klo 23.01: CNN julistaa Obamasta presidentin!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nyt täytyy käydä korkkaamaan skumppaa - tai ainakin uusi kalja -- päivityksiä myöhemmin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--- EDIT: klo 23.52 EST --- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vau. Mielentöntä. Fiilis on todella katossa ja tapahtuman historiallisuus alkaa vasta pikkuhiljaa hamottua, vaikka skenaariota on maisteltu jo viikkoja. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tulosten ensianalyysi näyttää vahvasti silä, mitä eniten toivoin; että vaalien tulos antaisi vahvan mandaatin uudelle suunnalle. Että sen syvin ydin nousisi niiltä väestön osilta, jotka ovat olleet joko historiallisesti polliittisessa varjossa tai jotka edustavat maan tulevaisuutta. Ja näin siinä näyttää käyvän:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;96% mustien äänistä&lt;br /&gt;65-68% nuorten, latinojen JA ensiäänestäjien äänistä (ei siis vain nuoret, vaan vastikään rekisteröityneet)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nyt alkaa Obaman puhe. Lisää päivityksiä myöhemmin.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-254052745778126133?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/254052745778126133/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=254052745778126133' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/254052745778126133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/254052745778126133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/11/uuden-ajan-alku.html' title='Uuden ajan alku'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-6388799163361146278</id><published>2008-11-04T18:27:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T18:33:11.259-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='american experiences'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creative class'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Don't vote...</title><content type='html'>... unless you care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0vtHwWReGU0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0vtHwWReGU0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Video embedded: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vtHwWReGU0"&gt;5 Friends Uncensored&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last few months have really brought to the surface some of the best things about this big country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But more on those l8ter. Now to the election nite watch!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-6388799163361146278?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/6388799163361146278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=6388799163361146278' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/6388799163361146278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/6388799163361146278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/11/dont-vote.html' title='Don&apos;t vote...'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-3905331911230899954</id><published>2008-11-04T08:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T12:41:19.735-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='american experiences'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='confessions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Excitement in the air</title><content type='html'>I have to say that I'm still quite surprised that the U.S. presidential elections have affected me so much. To many it may not seem like a surprise -- after all, I've lived here for five and a half years already and lived through the grim times that America has seen under the Bush administration. If that get's all the rest of the world excited then why not me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I'm still surprised. Five years back I "promised" myself that I'd consider me a visitor in this wonderful country of great diversity (-- something that I have to say that I really, really value). That whatever would happen I'd view it as "their thing" and remember that my status is officially a non-resident &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;alien&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe the reason is just the same that has gotten the rest of the world so interested about these elections. Maybe it's because five years is almost half of my adulthood years. Maybe it's because I have to admit that in the phases of cultural adaptation I've gone over the ups and downs enough many times that I think I have to admit that I've adapted quite well. .. I have to add that in the scene that I live in five years makes me practically a native here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also have to add and admit/confess that I've learned to profoundly like this country in a number of ways. Yes, it surely has its annoyances. No doubt about that. And there surely are a number of things that I flat out don't like about this country. But I could say the same for my dear Finland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll spare my sporadic reader(s?) from details for now. I'll just make this an election day blog opener. That is, a post to get things started. I've "promised" myself way too many times before that I'd start blogging about my experiences here. It's about time now. "Kuparinen rikki" as one could say in Finnish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To close the post off, I'd like to share two excellent video clips and some links. The videos are embedded below and the links are pointers to my link collection in the social bookmarking service Delicious, which I warmly recommend to everybody. Don't be a beggar - share your stuff! &lt;br /&gt;* A &lt;a href="http://blogit.hs.fi/USA2008/?p=143"&gt;video interview about me and the elections&lt;/a&gt; in the main newspaper of Finland, the &lt;a href="http://www.hs.fi"&gt;Helsingin Sanomat&lt;/a&gt; a week and a half ago&lt;br /&gt;* My links on the &lt;a href="http://www.delicious.com/jaakkoh/us_presidential_elections_08"&gt;presidential elections&lt;/a&gt; including pretty much all related links that I've bookmarked, and those &lt;a href="http://www.delicious.com/jaakkoh/obama"&gt;related to Obama&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An excellent 30 minute Obama "infomercial" that I think concludes Obama's campaign very nicely&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GtREqAmLsoA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GtREqAmLsoA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and a good 4 minute "&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rcWrg_R7s"&gt;Analysis of Barack Obama's 30 Minute Commercial&lt;/a&gt;" by &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks"&gt;The Young Turks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And finally, a brilliant, brilliant humorist speech by Obama at the traditional Alfred E. Smith Foundation dinner gala in New York from a couple of weeks back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_gdOwV1l0ow&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_gdOwV1l0ow&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Z2_cpHr_Q"&gt;second part of the speech&lt;/a&gt;, too. And consider &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmDVWOqvBNo"&gt;McCain's speech&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. My favorite poll tracker is &lt;a href="http://www.pollster.com"&gt;Pollster.com&lt;/a&gt; and I was just recommended to check out the &lt;a href="http://scoreboard.dailykos.com/map/"&gt;real-time electoral map&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com"&gt;Daily Kos&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-3905331911230899954?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/3905331911230899954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=3905331911230899954' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3905331911230899954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3905331911230899954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/11/excitement-in-air.html' title='Excitement in the air'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-2534839457491732762</id><published>2008-09-30T11:09:00.010-05:00</published><updated>2008-10-03T13:10:43.385-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communities'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creative commons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='collaboration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flocc'/><title type='text'>Free, Libre, Open Content and Culture - and Communities</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;I was supposed to send a friend some "pointer" links on the possibilities that the Internet provides for community creation/collaboration and about &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons"&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt; (a component of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content"&gt;free&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre#Libre"&gt;libre&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Content"&gt;open content&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_knowledge"&gt;libre knowledge&lt;/a&gt; and altogether the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_movement"&gt;free culture movement&lt;/a&gt;, together with other &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft"&gt;copyleft&lt;/a&gt; licences).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I was about to simply send her a stack of links as I have to a number of others before. But as an enthusiast on the issues of free-libre-open content/&lt;a href="http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/"&gt;culture&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge"&gt;knowledge&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access"&gt;access&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://openeverything.net/"&gt;every&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.webofchange.com/open"&gt;thing&lt;/a&gt; I finally realized that sending yet another email to any single person or a group of people for that matter on the issue is just plain dumb. After all, knowledge wants to be free and experiences should be shared. So it really doesn't make sense to post these anywhere else than a blog (or a wiki). So, here we go.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/"&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. I'll let a (3 min) video speak about CC in general.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://dotsub.com/media/fbdc3bd1-d1c2-4b63-be02-4fcb66aac443/e/m" frameborder="0" width="420" height="347"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The video above is hosted at &lt;a href="http://dotsub.com/"&gt;dotSub&lt;/a&gt;, which is an &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;excellent&lt;/span&gt; example of how creative commons licensing empowers users&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;refine the work - in this case users can &lt;a href="http://dotsub.com/about.jsp"&gt;help subtitle and translate the subtitles of any video to any language&lt;/a&gt;. Simply choose your preferred (available) language from the dropdown menu and see for yourself! .. With normal copyrights this wouldn't be possible.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You might also want to check out a number of excellent presentations by Lawrence "Larry" Lessig, the grand ol' man of Creative Commons. YouTube's your best friend but I'll point you to my two other top recommendations on CC:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1) a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWR6eiiBhf8"&gt;four part series on free culture&lt;/a&gt; (8 min each) and&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2) Lessig's presentation: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs"&gt;How Creativity is being strangled by the law&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/talks"&gt;TEDtalks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These give more back ground to the idea of free culture and creative commons. ... If you prefer to digest things in a written format then check out Lessig's book:  &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_movement"&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; (CC-licensed = $0 to download ~$12 to &lt;a href="http://www.free-culture.cc/get-it/"&gt;buy a hardcopy&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;As a side note:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/talks"&gt;TEDtalks&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector"&gt;in YouTube&lt;/a&gt;) has a huge amount of videos on very interesting talks/presenations, not just technology. Another very interesting similar pointer is &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/atgoogletalks"&gt;AtGoogleTalks&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Related to all this is the issue of &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;communities, collaboration and user-generated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; content or &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing"&gt;crowdsourcing&lt;/a&gt;. A sociological perspective. I'll embed another YouTube video, a excellent presentation by &lt;a href="http://www.shirky.com/"&gt;Clay Shirky&lt;/a&gt;, the author of &lt;a href="http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/"&gt;Here Comes Everybody&lt;/a&gt;: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, which he delivered at the World Bank in the spring (&lt;a href="http://psdblog.worldbank.org/psdblog/2008/05/clay-shirky-t-1.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;commentary on the presentation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). To justify the 33min chunk a comment from my dear M (not as enthousiasted as me about these things as I am): "This should &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;really&lt;/span&gt; be a must see for anyone working with (international) development." I'd add: to anyone who wishes to understand this century.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/J80PE1h9OuA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/J80PE1h9OuA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Again. See the YouTube's "related videos" on the right. My other Shirky favorite is his TEDtalks speech: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQViNNOAkw"&gt;Institutions vs. Collaboration&lt;/a&gt; (20min). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maybe that's enough for this time. I'll save some for another post and conclude by emphasizing that I think that the idea and possibilities of free-libre-open content/knowledge/etc are a &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;huge&lt;/span&gt; thing! We're talking about not just serious but &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;fundamental&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;empowerment of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt; individuals&lt;/span&gt;. And in this, the licencing issue is one of the very key components as that's what - at the end of the day - defines how content can be used and reused; or not. As a quote borrowed from an excellent presentation "&lt;a href="http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/ucsdlibraries/Mass%20Digitization-Google%20and%20the%20OCA.LMG.2006.03.08.pdf"&gt;Mass Digitization of Scholarly Resources: Google Book Searc and the Open Content Alliance&lt;/a&gt;" (in PDF) states:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;“Beware any corporation that pretends to speak for the public interest. That’s usually a contingent pledge based on convenience and temporary market conditions.” — Siva Vaidhyanathan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What do you think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-2534839457491732762?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/2534839457491732762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=2534839457491732762' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/2534839457491732762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/2534839457491732762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/09/free-libre-open-content-and-culture-and.html' title='Free, Libre, Open Content and Culture - and Communities'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-4033286451405464807</id><published>2008-09-30T16:25:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T16:53:14.465-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rural electrification'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='off-grid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='energy development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lighting'/><title type='text'>Self-sufficient energy products</title><content type='html'>A pointer to links about LED lanterns &amp;amp; other self-sufficient energy products (mostly lighting aka. illumination):&lt;div&gt;- My Delicious links tagged &lt;a href="http://delicious.com/jaakkoh/self-sufficient_energy_products"&gt;"self-sufficient energy products"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://delicious.com/jaakkoh/self-sufficient_energy_products"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The list is not long but will grow over time. If interested, subscribe to the feed on the page or with get additions to your inbox with &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com"&gt;RSS FWD&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-4033286451405464807?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/4033286451405464807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=4033286451405464807' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/4033286451405464807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/4033286451405464807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/09/self-sufficient-energy-products.html' title='Self-sufficient energy products'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-3327389362204765681</id><published>2008-06-19T15:43:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T15:54:50.953-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finnish'/><title type='text'>Etikkatesti</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hauska nähdä, että YLE:n etiikkatesti on taas vielä hengissä.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Nimim. törmäsin testiin joskus 1999 hujakkeilla - muistaakseni &lt;a href="http://www.sakumantere.fi/"&gt;Sakun&lt;/a&gt; viittelöimänä. Silloin palvelu oli kuitenkin varmaan vuoden verran nurin, kun yritin sitä tehdä. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tällä erää &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://innervisions.blogspot.com/2008/06/ja.html"&gt;Jussin&lt;/a&gt; innoittamana:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Mielipiteitäsi lähimpänä oleva filosofi on &lt;b&gt;Väinö Linna&lt;/b&gt; (1920-1992).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yle.fi/vielayksiasia/vastaajat/vaino_linna.html"&gt;[ Lisätietoja filosofista ]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Alla 3 lähintä filosofia ja osumisprosentit: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;1. Väinö Linna 78.0%&lt;br /&gt;2. David Hume 77.0%&lt;br /&gt;3. Anthony Giddens 77.0%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Ajatuksiasi eniten vieroksuu Carl Schmitt 45.0% &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Myös seuraavat 3 mielipidevaikuttajaa olivat lähinnä omaa vastaustasi: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;1. Kirjailija Matti Mäkelä 86.0%&lt;br /&gt;2. Kansantaiteilija, yht.maist. Simo Frangen 80.0%&lt;br /&gt;3. Näyttelijä Mari Rantasila 78.0%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Noh, parei myöhään kuin ei silloinkaan...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-3327389362204765681?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://innervisions.blogspot.com/2008/06/ja.html' title='Etikkatesti'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/3327389362204765681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=3327389362204765681' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3327389362204765681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3327389362204765681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/06/etikkatesti.html' title='Etikkatesti'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-3376518932465179801</id><published>2008-05-22T22:57:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-05-22T22:59:48.364-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='essentials'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='email'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital life'/><title type='text'>Your online identity. Your digital history. Make sure you own them.</title><content type='html'>If I had to name my pet peeve in the domain of digital life I'd most probably point to the issue that so many - if not most - people don't seem to have given much thought to their digital identity and their digital archives. Looking at email this means choosing your email address and email provider wisely. Yes, I know, many probably think that I'm a fool thinking about this elaborately, or that "Hey, who cares!? It's just email." Well. Think again. What follows is a note that I wrote to one bunch of friends. It's not very finely formulated (I may well choose to edit it later). But the points are hopefully clear. ... the comment became a bit long but I recommend you to think about: Your identity - your emails ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;You should consider very, very, very carefully if you really want to use your work email for any personal communication -- or a Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Comcast, &lt;a href="http://luukku.com/" target="_blank"&gt;luukku.com&lt;/a&gt;, etc providers' free emails even for personal communication for that matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, in brief, there are two issues related that are growingly important: &lt;b&gt;Your email and your online identity.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;u&gt;Your email&lt;/u&gt;: &lt;b&gt;Your employer may well own your email &lt;/b&gt;(in the US at least -- it reads on my contract!) -- &lt;b&gt;or at least keep it hostage &lt;/b&gt;(&lt;b&gt;as do almost all of the personal email service providers (listed above). &lt;/b&gt;In practice just about all companies keep their employees emails hostage -- even in Finland, the promised land of the equal rights and fair game ;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;... For all situations: think -- and find out -- if you can get your own emails with you in a standard digital format that some standard email system can import if you have to -- or want to change you company / your ISP.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;u&gt;Your online identity&lt;/u&gt;: You may want to be affiliated with your company in a number of situations or it maybe convenient to send and receive emails from-to your company BlackBerry but think further. &lt;b&gt;What happens to your 'identity' when you switch jobs? &lt;/b&gt;And in any case email addresses (as well as mobile phone numbers, and not just &lt;a href="http://www.janchipchase.com/sharedphoneuse" target="_blank"&gt;in developing countries&lt;/a&gt;) are becoming increasingly important part of your identity. Online, they often &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; your identity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; The simple choices to both of the issues are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Reasonably priced "&lt;b&gt;E-mail and WWW &lt;i&gt;forwarding&lt;/i&gt; services &lt;/b&gt;[...] This allows our members to keep the same personal identity should the actual location or ISP of their e-mail or www homepages change." &lt;i&gt;(from &lt;a href="http://www.iki.fi/" target="_blank"&gt;www.iki.fi&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/i&gt; or&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Using &lt;b&gt;a truly free (as in free speech) email service provider. One that let's you forward and/or POP/IMAP your emails for free &lt;/b&gt;or for a very low fee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Controlling your domain&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;In practice, if you are bothered by the above, your corresponding three choices are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get a &lt;b&gt;reasonably priced permanent email address &lt;/b&gt;from a reputable forwarding service (&lt;a href="http://iki.fi/"&gt;IKI.fi&lt;/a&gt; for those in Finland - ~30€/life; for others e.g. &lt;a href="http://www.name/" target="_blank"&gt;www.name&lt;/a&gt; - ~$10/&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;year&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;) .. BTW. I have a few domains reserved for this purpose and can offer you this through Google Apps (see #3 below) - shoot me an email if you're interested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Get a &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gmail.com/"&gt;Gmail&lt;/a&gt; account&lt;/b&gt; (free free - out of pocket and portability)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get &lt;b&gt;your &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=best+domain+hosting"&gt;own domain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;: &lt;/i&gt;$9/year&lt;b&gt; and register it with &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/apps"&gt;Google Apps&lt;/a&gt; service ($0)&lt;/b&gt; or use any other service ($0 - few dollars a &lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;month&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt; ... ~$40-80/&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;year&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;As you can do the easy math "freeing" your email with a typical service provider is a ripoff. The paid for service from Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, etc (that gives you free forwarding of email address and retrieval of your email physically to your computer) costs some $15-20/month. Cost per decade becomes ~$2000 where the recommended options are around $10-100, $0, and $90 per decade, respectively. Are you letting them rob you? ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to the $ part. There's one positive issue worth mentioning in regards to getting your own domain ... the open 'address space' (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space" target="_blank"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space&lt;/a&gt;) associated with it. For an example you can reach me at j(ÄT)&lt;a href="http://viestin.net/"&gt;viestin.net&lt;/a&gt; or jaakko(ÄT)&lt;a href="http://viestin.net/"&gt;viestin.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;- Many providers don't even allow 2-3 even 5 character addresses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As note above I've reserved a few domains with the idea of being able to provide friends an easy to remember email address that they can keep forever. Nothings certain in this world but I'd be surprised if Google would suddenly not be able to provide the Google Apps basic package for free - the price of technology and basic services is going down rather than up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So. The following domains have nearly 100% free address spaces. Let me know if you want an email address from one of them. My promise is that I'll keep the domains as long as there's a single user on them and won't charge anything for the accounts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://viestin.net/"&gt;viestin.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- opend.cc (~ open development)&lt;br /&gt;- opens.cc (~ open society)&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://dcfinns.net/"&gt;dcfinns.net&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://usfinns.net/"&gt;usfinns.net&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://suomalaisu.us/"&gt;suomalaisu.us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://dcnordics.net/"&gt;dcnordics.net&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://usnordics.net/"&gt;usnordics.net&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://nordics.us/"&gt;nordics.us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why reserve all these domains? Why any? People have odd hobbies. Being annoyed about peoples' email addresses can probably be listed as my hobby. Maybe pet peeve is a good term for that. How can I know, an ESL fool. Whatever the reason(s) reserving domains has always seemed like a difficult or at least a tedious task. But things have changed. For me (a semi(?)-geek) &lt;a href="http://start.viestin.net/"&gt;Google Apps &lt;/a&gt;was &lt;i&gt;the thing&lt;/i&gt;. They made it super super easy to get all of the basic services (email, etc) working -- for free free (Cheers to NSA! ;) -- and you can even book a domain through them even though I recommend getting more flexibility by reserving your domain through some dedicated domain provider (I use &lt;a href="http://www.godaddy.com/" target="_blank"&gt;GoDaddy&lt;/a&gt;). This gives you free hands and &lt;i&gt;full &lt;/i&gt;control with &lt;i&gt;your &lt;/i&gt;domain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What ever your choice is. Don't let them take you or your emails hostage!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-3376518932465179801?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/3376518932465179801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=3376518932465179801' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3376518932465179801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3376518932465179801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/05/your-online-identity-your-digital.html' title='Your online identity. Your digital history. Make sure you own them.'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-3912973095644735229</id><published>2008-04-25T22:01:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-04-25T22:01:34.315-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><title type='text'>Things in Perspective</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/jhelleranta/R_q6SgjsCEI/AAAAAAAANM4/_EL9wYSOgBI/africa_size.jpg?imgmax=640" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quite stunning, eih?&lt;div class="flockcredit" style="text-align: right; color: #CCC; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Blogged with the &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" style="color: #999; font-weight: bold;" target="_new" title="Flock Browser"&gt;Flock Browser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-3912973095644735229?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/3912973095644735229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=3912973095644735229' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3912973095644735229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3912973095644735229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/04/things-in-perspective.html' title='Things in Perspective'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-3762433723714177604</id><published>2008-01-26T07:27:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-26T07:30:20.358-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='populism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='markets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finnish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='globalization'/><title type='text'>Markkinoiden tempoilun jeesustelusta</title><content type='html'>Nokia lopetti tehtaan Saksassa. Saksa kapinoi. Alex Stubb &lt;a href="http://alexstubb.com/fi/index.php?trg=diary&amp;amp;id=1037"&gt;hutaisi jälleen osuvasti&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Mielenkiintoinen keskusteluketju, vaikka vähän jeesustelulta tuntuiskin. Musta asia ei ole helppo kumpaankaan suuntaan ja tavallansa sillä siisti. Olennaista on mielestäni olla sortumatta kummankaan suunnan populismiin. Kyetä ajattelemaan jollain järkevällä tasolla omien, kehittyneiden ja kehittymättömien markkinoiden etua. Hankala juttu.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ikävä tosiasia tuntuu olevan, että ihmiset -- varmasti tähänkin keskusteluketjuun osallistuneet -- pakenevat vastuutaan lähes poikkeuksetta sysäämällä pahat asiata "markkinoiden" niskoille. Tai vetäytymällä niiden taakse turvaan.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markkinoiden kritisoinnin ongelma on siinä, että olemme kaikki osasyyllisiä: jokainen, joka on koskaan ostanut mitään tarjouksesta, miettinyt ostospäätöstä tehdessään hintaa muiden ylevien asioiden yli (asioinut vaikka Ikeassa, H&amp;amp;M:ssä, ostanut Ladan, käyttänyt&lt;br /&gt;hintavertailupalveluita, käynyt Virossa nauttimassa edullisemmasta hintatasosta, jne.) -- ja tietysti myös net jotka mitään omistavat ja vaativat sijoituksilleen tuottoa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Syyllisyys"asteemme vaihtelee, mutta lähes kaikki ovat tervassa pyöritettyjä. Osa myös höyhenissä.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mutta asia ei ole tosiaan helppo. Tehdäkö kaikki itse ja antaa kiinalaisten, afrikkalaisten ja muiden köyhien kärsiä köyhyyden ja matalan kasvun loukusta? Vai avata ovet sepposen selälleen ja (osittain) kusta omaan pakkiin?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Loppukevennykseksi:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Talouselämän päivän piikki 23.1. pistää saksalaiseen marinaan osuvasti:&lt;br /&gt;"Saksalaisia harmittaa, että suomalainen Nokia on saanut Saksassa lähes 100 miljoonan euron tukiaisrahat. Nopeastipa on Saksanmaalla unohdettu se, että tämän vuosituhannen alussa Sonera maksoi Saksaan 4 miljardin tukirahat ostamalla umts-huutokaupassa saksalaista ilmaa."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-3762433723714177604?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/3762433723714177604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=3762433723714177604' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3762433723714177604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/3762433723714177604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2008/01/markkinoiden-tempoilun-jeesustelusta.html' title='Markkinoiden tempoilun jeesustelusta'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-7096979762800179574</id><published>2007-10-13T08:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-10-13T08:38:26.296-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finnish'/><title type='text'>Vain muutos on varmaa</title><content type='html'>Vanha ylioppilaskuntavuosien kaverini Jussi &lt;a href="http://pksektori.blogspot.com/2007/10/vanhan-liiton-miehi.html"&gt;haikailee blogissaan menneitä&lt;/a&gt;. Toista se oli silloin kun vaan bloggailtiin eikä paljasteltu kaikkea tyhmää &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com"&gt;Facebookissa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=703933973"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kirjoituksen herättämiä ajatuksia kommentissani postaukseen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; Osuvia huomioita, Jussi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Siinä olet erityisen oikeassa, että sanatonta viestintää ei mikään päihitä. Tämä on sinänsä "ikivanha" juttu: Kuten 80-lukulainen sanonta kuuluu "kädenpuristusta ei voi faksata".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mutta kyllä nää uudet informaatioteknoloogiset systeemit ovat kovasti ottaneet etumatkaa kiinni. Erityisesti rapakon tältä puolen on kovin kovin mukava, että voi seurailla kavereiden kuulumisia aiempaa selvästi laajemmin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musta Facebook on erityisen mainio systeemi siinä, että se tarjoaa mahdollisuuden helposti rajata sitä joukkoa, joka noin oletusarvoisesti lukee kuulumiset.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kerran intternjettiin laitettu tietysti pysyy siellä ikuisesti -- ja tulee todennäköisesti vastaan juuri silloin kun sitä vähiten toivoisi; sitä ei tule unohtaa (note to self: älä unohda).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taidamme kyllä joka tapauksessa olla yhdenlaisen yhteiskunnallisen mullistuksen äärellä näiden systeemien kanssa: yksityisyys sellaisena kuin me 1900-luvun kasvatit olemme sen oppineet tuntemaan on kovassa &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_society"&gt;murroksessa&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ja mihin suuntaan ollaankin menossa, niin musta on kyllä kovin mukavaa, että voi olla yhteyksissa edes näin virtuaalisesti suhun ja muihin vanhoihin kavereihin. Facebook on Suomessa saavutetun kriittisen massa myötä tuonut omalle tutkalle parissa kuukaudessa toista kymmentä vanhaa kaveria keistä en ole kuullut yli kymmeneen vuoteen -- ties missä olisin näihin "törmännyt" ilman Naamakirjaa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Riemullista syksyn jatketta!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Siinähän se ydin taisikin tulla kirjailluksi kohtuullisen kompaktisti jopa näin meikäläisen sanomaksi. Nämä toisen(?) sukupolven sosiaaliset informaatsiopalvelut ovat kovin mukavia siinä, että ne mahdollistavat ennennäkemättömästi yhteydenpitoa ei pelkästään lähimmäisten vaan myös niiden kavereiden kanssa, jotka muuten olisivat hukkuneet kenties ikiajoiksi historian huminaan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-7096979762800179574?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/7096979762800179574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=7096979762800179574' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/7096979762800179574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/7096979762800179574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2007/10/vain-muutos-on-varmaa.html' title='Vain muutos on varmaa'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-8752407658784113104</id><published>2007-08-02T17:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-08-03T18:33:14.683-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='my pages'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finnish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='links'/><title type='text'>Blogi henkiin</title><content type='html'>Jos ei nyt sadan, niin kuitenkin neljän(!) vuoden ihmettelyn jälkeen lienee korkea aika ryhdistäytyä blogirintamalla ja aloittaa kuulumisten, ajatusten ja/tai edes sattumusten ylöskirjaaminen. Aika todellakin lentää käsittämättömän nopeasti. Tarkoitus on ollut jo pitkään nakutella tänne kuulumiset ja mietteet ja nakella sitten linkkiä niille, jotka kulloinkin ovat mielessä.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tämän hetken kuulumistenkirjailusuunnitelma -- ah, miten yhdyssanat ovatkaan ihania! -- on kirjailla tänne palstalle voittopuoleisesti kirjalliset kuulumiset, ajatukset, mielenkiintoiset linkit ja sen sellaiset, lähettää pääosin kuvalliset viestit (mahdollisin lyhyin kuvauksin / sutkauksin) &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/jhelleranta"&gt;Flickr-sivulleni&lt;/a&gt; ja pitää &lt;a href="http://helleranta.smugmug.com/"&gt;Smugmugia&lt;/a&gt; jatkossakin varsinaisena valokuva-arkistona. Valokuviani löydät myös Googlen &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jhelleranta"&gt;Picasa Web Albums -sivultani&lt;/a&gt;. Picasan vissi etu muihin verrattuna on, että sieltä kuvia saa ladatuksia kokonaisina albumeina omalle koneelle kirjaimellisesti yhdellä-kahdella kilkkauksella. Moista kätevää toiminnallisuutta en ole nähnyt missään muussa valokuvapalvelussa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kaikki kommentit ovat tietysti mitä tervetulleimpia. On mukava kuulla ketkä ovat sattuneet löytämään tänne. Lyhyetkin kommentit näyttävät kautta blogosfäärin kannustavan ihmisiä myös kirjoittamaan. Saa pistää kuulumisia myös meilitse -- soittaakin.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-8752407658784113104?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/8752407658784113104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=8752407658784113104' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/8752407658784113104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/8752407658784113104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2007/08/blogi-henkiin.html' title='Blogi henkiin'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-115851446123603432</id><published>2006-09-17T12:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-08-03T18:30:53.532-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Valokuvia Washingtonista ja sen seutuvilta ja Picasa Web Albums</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jhelleranta/SceneryFromAndAroundWashingtonDC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.google.com/jhelleranta/RQskSiJWABE/AAAAAAAAAuA/pg-3wlsz3R0/SceneryFromAndAroundWashingtonDC.jpg?imgmax=160&amp;crop=1" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0px; margin-top: 16px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; width: 194px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 83%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jhelleranta/SceneryFromAndAroundWashingtonDC"&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Scenery from and around Washington DC&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"&gt;Aug 25, 2005 - 41 Photos&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Picasa Web Albums on monella tapaa tosi kätevan oloinen palvelu kuvien jakoon erityisesti suoraan tietokoneelta: se on googlemaisen nopea, toimii saumattomasti ja sulavasti yhteen &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/"&gt;Picasan&lt;/a&gt; (saatavilla Linuxillekin) kanssa - mikä mahdollistaa mm. kokonaisten kansioiden lataamisen omalle koneelle kirjaimellisesti napin painalluksella, ym.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suurin osa kuvistani löytynee kuitenkin jatkossakin &lt;a href="http://helleranta.smugmug.com/"&gt;Smugmugista&lt;/a&gt; ja &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhelleranta"&gt;Flickristä&lt;/a&gt;. Picasa Web albums vaikutta kuitenkin tosi kätevältä palvelulta itsellekin tiettyihin tilanteisiin. Jos et ole jo vakiintunut tietyn _hyvän_ palvelun käyttäjäksi, niin suosittelen harkitsemaan vakavasti.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-115851446123603432?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/115851446123603432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=115851446123603432' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/115851446123603432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/115851446123603432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2006/09/valokuvia-washingtonista-ja-sen.html' title='Valokuvia Washingtonista ja sen seutuvilta ja Picasa Web Albums'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10938312.post-5830087776046187521</id><published>2007-08-03T18:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-08-03T18:13:00.121-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='my pages'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finnish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='links'/><title type='text'>Panoramio</title><content type='html'>Vielä yksi kuvapalvelu...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saimaan kesäretken sunnittelun yhteydessä törmäsin Googlen joku aikaa sitten ostamaan Panoramio-palveluun. Tämän systeemin juju on toisaalta tarjota hyvin yksinkertaista (less-is-more) kuvapalvelua ihmisille, mutta olennaisemmin &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3701904"&gt;sijoittaa kuvat kartalle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Panoramio on integroitu hienosti Google Earth (GE) -palveluun siten, että lähtökohtaisesti kaikki systeemiin ladattavat kuvat käydään palveluntarjoajan puolesta läpi ja kriteerit täyttävät kuvat (joissa on paikkatieto, yms.) lisätään GE-tietokantaan, mistä kuka tahansa pavelun käyttäjä näkee ko. kuvan ko. paikkaa katsoessaan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Omia Panoramio-kuvia voi selailla osoitteessa &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/739115"&gt;panoramio.com/user/739115&lt;/a&gt;. Eivät näytä -- ainakaan vielä -- tarjoavan selkokielisiä käyttäjäosoitteita.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10938312-5830087776046187521?l=potomac.hel.cc' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/feeds/5830087776046187521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10938312&amp;postID=5830087776046187521' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/5830087776046187521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10938312/posts/default/5830087776046187521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://potomac.hel.cc/2007/08/panoramio.html' title='Panoramio'/><author><name>Jaakko H.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17168739877245098317</uri><email>jaakkohoo@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09332505860018279091'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>