The internet revolution of the Noughties

THE PAST seems like a foreign country, even more so when it comes to technology.

A decade ago, many online terms and brands that we now take for granted in our daily lives didn’t even exist: blogging, eBay, Google, Gmail, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia are the neologisms of the “Noughties”.

These so-called Web 2.0 applications and websites, which are characterised by interactive information sharing, interoperability and user-centred design, have given rise to totally new social practices: people now “friend” and “unfriend” others on Facebook, millions “tweet” their thoughts on Twitter, while thumb-texting teenagers have devised a whole new vowel-less language to keep their friends permanently informed of every last detail of their lives.

These advancements in the virtual sphere have been accomplished on the back of technological progress. The painfully slow dial-up has been replaced by lightning speed broadband, slashing the time required to download material from the web. Laptops were weighty and expensive devices ten years ago. Netbooks now proliferate, while the most up-to-date devices such as the iPhone have greater capabilities than the average PC of a decade ago.

Social impact

The impact of internet social networking on social relations has been considerable, according to Yannis Larios of the Observatory for the Greek Information Society. For one, it has helped break down the traditional suspicion that Greeks have for strangers. “What the social media applications and platforms have succeeded in doing is to soften this cautious stance somewhat,” he says, adding that Greeks seem to find it easier to talk to strangers when they are online and share details from their personal life more readily than with their office colleagues, for example.

This is particularly the case among one demographic group in Greek society, which over the past decade has caught up with its European Union counterpart as regards internet use, according to Larios. “The younger generations in Greece, those in the 16- to 35-year-old age bracket, are now equal to their counterparts in the rest of Europe in that there is no longer a digital gap between them,” he explains. “The younger generations in Greece just don’t use the internet - they live through the internet. We’re talking about a 90 percent usage rate.”

What they do online is in part revealed by the list of the twenty most popular websites visited by Greeks, provided by Alexa, an internet analysis firm.

The global social networking sites dominate the list, which contains a smattering of Greek sports websites. Ominously, the internet top twenty only include one “serious” news website (in.gr), and that in the tenth position. “Greek society as a whole is not using the internet as a means to discuss political issues in a more creative manner,” according to Larios. “There are some heavy internet users who discuss and analyse things, but they are so few that we almost know them by name.”

Elaborating, he adds: “Communication at a deeper level is still rare. While we do have thousands of active bloggers, only about ten percent are what we can call ‘creative users’, ie those who create real content”.

Generation gap

However, this digital dexterity among the young is not present in other age groups, he points out: “The internet hasn’t really impacted the lives of the 50-plus age group, while the 35-50 age group, the most dynamic segment of society, at the peak of their lives and creativity, are lagging behind European averages when it comes to the internet.”

Larios expects that the new decade will bring considerable changes as the younger generation enters the workplace. “There will be a very discernible digital gap within the workforce, and this will create a two-tier workforce - in any single enterprise, half the staff will be young, with a dynamic approach to the internet, while the other half will be used to doing things the traditional way. That will give rise to tension”, he concludes.

Blogging: circumventing traditional media

TEN YEARS ago, blogging didn’t exist. Now, blogs proliferate on the internet. Greeks have embraced the new medium: taken together, the blogs hosted on the domain www.blogger.com make it one of the most popular blog hosts and the overall fifth most popular site visited by Greeks.

Indeed, one Greek blog it hosts in particular, troktiko.blogspot.com, is the ninth most popular of all sites, blogging or not. During the past summer, Troktiko managed to reveal some details pertaining to the Siemens scandal, which boosted its popularity and led to its temporary suspension.

Athens University food scientist Yannis Zabetakis (photo) has been blogging at environmentfood.blogspot.com since September 2007. His blog focuses on environmental issues and food safety:

“Blogging appeals to me because it allows me to bypass the filters that the conventional media impose. I write slightly different articles for newspapers and my blog. Some things need to be softened or rounded somewhat for the traditional media, whereas on the blog you can be more direct and invasive as long as you don’t go to the other extreme, where you abuse language and others anonymously in order to support your own ideas.

With blogs I can get my point across more effectively. A blog is also a database. When I write something new as a scientist, I can use my blog to archive it. It’s my library of published material.

It’s facilitated my contact with others. My blogging is quite thematic, focusing on climate change, environment protection and food safety, and nowadays it’s very easy for me to find similar-minded bloggers and to link to their blogs.

Whether it makes an impact is an interesting question. Does what I write has impact on ways of thinking? As with newspapers, which can check on their circulation, I can monitor the visits to my blog.

What matters is not the quantity, but the quality of reader. To give an extreme example - you could have only one minister reading your blog, but this could influence policy in a particular area. I know, for instance, that my blog is read daily by a few environmental and food journalists in the Greek media. This way I can communicate my thinking to them directly. I’ve also noticed how one politician, in a speech on food safety, used material that he copy-pasted from my blog.

Influencing public opinion can take time through blogging, but if you write material with substance and references, then people will like it and read it. Very often, and this is what I like, they will leave comments that help your thinking evolve. That’s not the case with conventional newspapers, but we are increasingly seeing newspapers entering the blogosphere. In turn, journalists can also be influenced by the comments readers make on their blogs. Readers welcome being part of public discussion.

It’s difficult to say whether blogging has empowered people. There are very serious bloggers but the majority of Greek blogs peddle gossip, and little else.”

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History of American newspapers

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Minister what should PSU with APFC

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the origin of the newspaper business

At first, the newspaper is primarily a propaganda tool and the organization became a political tool when it developed into a personal eskpresi entrepreneurs and finally our time to be a business organization whose business is to sell news and entertainment free boundary between the magazines and newspapers has become smaller and to now in some ways they are competing with each other in principle newspapers in the 1980s are still exactly the same as in 1835 the newspaper is a tool or a means to deliver local news, but national and international levels in order to compete with other media such as magazines and television is going to newspapers would not also have to provide not only entertainment and news exclusively today that the newspaper stout loaded with entertainment more than news itself
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Enhance self-image of success

The image of the impression that captured everyone from what is shown and what was given one to someone else. Salespeople are supposed to always present themselves as an image of success with this image will be more positive impression emanated from within her in the eyes of every customer as an officer who first viewed the image of a successful customer is required to build the retail business a more positive

What is displayed is controlled by the clerk what was behind his mind when he thinks that he is a successful and optimistic about the future certainly looks to be more positive than if he thinks that he is a man who failed in his job and pessimistic then how many steps you can taken to build a successful self-image

1. Make a list of positive self-order as stock can be used to establish a positive self-image
2. Make a list of things that need to be improved in order to be a concern for the developers themselves constantly
3. Avoid self-pity as it will not made more optimal potential is needed to optimize our potential to the highest point that can be achieved
4. Get used to reading the book and follow the lectures and seminars that can provide a positive inspiration has been shown that successful self-image arises due to the positive input of the read load and open lectures and seminars in the following
5. Have a purpose in life people who have a goal will emit positive energy to any and life will just flow without a clear direction

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Archimedes Biography

Archimedes who lived in Greece in the year 287 until 212 BC, was a mathematician, physicist,
astronomer and filusuf. Archimedes was born in the port city called Syracuse, this city is now known as
Sicily. Archimedes was a nephew of King Hiero II, who reigned in Syracuse at the time.

Archimedes' name became famous after he jumped from the tub and ran naked after proving that the crown was not made of pure gold. Words "Eureka (I found it)" became popular to this day. Archimedes was also the first to define the system of numbers that contain "Myriad (10000)", myramid show numbers seuatu infinite value. He also defines the ratio between the circumference of a circle and the radius of the circle known as Pi of 3.1429.

King Hiero II was then tied to agreements with the Romans. Syracuse must send wheat in large quantities on the Romans, so they are not attacked. Until at one point Hiero II was not able to send the wheat in the amount specified. Therefore commissioned Archimedes to design and create a new type of ship to strengthen the navy king Hiero II.

At that time, the ship made by Archimedes was the greatest ship. To be able to float, the ship must be drained before the water flooded the deck. Because of the size of this ship, the amount of water that must the move it was very much. Because the Archimedes created a tool called the "Archimedes screw". With this water can easily be sucked from the deck of the ship. The size of a large ship has also caused other problems. The mass of the heavy ship, causing it difficult to move. To overcome this, Archimedes returned create pulley system called "Compound Pulley". With this system, the ship and its crew and its cargo can be moved simply by pulling a rope. The ship was later given the name Syracusia, and became the most phenomenal ship at that time.

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Applications engineer

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Server software engineer at a company engaged in the field of GPS companies build and market semiconductor products and software products are designed for our search on the location of mobile devices and commercial applications with the development of windows and unix software using C / C + + with the model of operation and management server ( OGM) with java network programming and XML scripting unix find GPS systems and software design software development life cycles

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