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By: En vecka utan Google « Webbpedagogik

En vecka utan Google « Webbpedagogik — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:31:14 +0000

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By: petra

petra — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:48:30 +0000

After reading about google, I was really glad that I haven’t been using their search for the last week.
For my travelogue, I’ve been searching for all kinds of suspicious stuff, like:
“nation of islam”
“black panthers” (which is considered a terrorist group by the FBI/CIA)
“minister louis farrakhan”
“anarchism”
“black arcade liberation”
ETC.
you get the point…
i had never really thought to much about it before, but I’m just really thankful that those search key words are not added to my user profile…

By: Valerie

Valerie — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:31:00 +0000

I am off the bandwagon. After coming home to discover that 1. I missed the fact that we were supposed to post on the Google article yesterday (oops) 2. My internship had not been sending all of my mail to my NYU home account and 3. that I can’t embed photos like a normal tech-head of my generation, I had to call it quits do to an impending freak out if I had to Yahoo! search one more thing….

All in all, it was not as bad as I expected. I think that not Googling has been relatively easy for me because I don’t use google Blogger and because instead of absentmindedly searching YouTube in my free time I actually absentmindedly search http://www.Epicurious.com way more. Because I am a cooking dork.

So all in all, I learned things about myself, and now I am going to go check my Gmail and feel really happy about my life

By: ethram

ethram — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:49:52 +0000

I was yahooing for such a long time.

ALMOST For A WEEK! Today, on Monday morning when I was stressing to find something really quick online …I googled “leo” the dictionary. I think its just a branded path of my brain, which I wasn’t able to escape under pressure and in stress.
I must say, it was so hard not using youtube.com ! I want to explore more media forums and forms though and not only the ones I am used to..I realize how “sick” it almost seems to only use limited paths of communicating..Its almost already too mainstream to be cool!

By: NateGsays

NateGsays — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:03:58 +0000

i made it! so far at least with 24 hours to go! it was super tempting to log into my google maps especially when i was wondering around the most confusing neighborhood in the world- the west village! but i resisted! i didnt use youtube at all which was reallllly hard because I wanted to watch Jennifer Hudson’s grammy performance again and again and again …. and i can not wait to see it!

By: amandicle

amandicle — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:41:33 +0000

I have to just add that while listening to the two “On the Media” podcasts that were required for this week I felt guilty just listening to the word “Google”. This whole “no google” week has left this stain on the search engine for me. I wonder how long it will take me to stop feeling bad using Google?

By: nayoung

nayoung — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:59:04 +0000

Am i the only one who hates Youtube and avoids it at all costs? The video is such bad quality that i’d rather not watch them at all.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:46:24 +0000

Living without Google has been harder than I thought. At home, I’ve substituted to the best of my knowledge; using websites that I know of to search for information when I need it. For example, instead of just Googling take-out in my area, I manually browsed Menupages and Citysearch. When I looked up directions to the Brooklyn Museum, I used Yahoo Maps, a seemingly bastardized version of Google Maps, that I hope I never I have to deal with again. Sometimes, if I absolutely needed something that I knew I would need to Google, for example, to watch episodes of a show when I was bored, Googling was done by proxy. I had my girlfriend search and use Google to find us sites where we could watch streaming episodes of Lost and The Office.

But I did cave last week. On Friday, while I was at work, I had to look up information on 1098-T (IRS Forms) and just could not think to use anything else. My boss demanded information about how to use 1098-T forms, how to send them out properly, and how to report information using them. I also Googled the phone number of the IRS so I could talk to them about issues I couldn’t resolve by just searching on the Internet. For me, it wasn’t like I could of took the time to use Yahoo, however, my office is in the middle of completing an Audit, and needed the information as fast as possible. So I complied, and used Google.

Other than using Google search for Work-related purposes I had kept up with the assignment. I find the hardest part besides not using the search engine is not being able to use Youtube. Alot of the social networking sites that I use for News like Reddit often link to Youtube. I’ve bookmarked about 5 videos that I have to absolutely see when I’m finished with this assignment. In the mean time, Break.com (another video website) and ShredorDie.com (an extreme sports website) have had to suffice.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:20:14 +0000

I’m a cheater. I confess. I’ve tried not to google, but i have an auto reflex to hit the tab button and search straight from the google search in safari. Whenever the six multi-colored letters com up I remember and close the tab, but that still counts as cheating.

However, all hope is not lost. My friends have been laughing about a youtube video that shows a little kid after going to the dentist for the whole week and I have actively avoided watching it.
All hope is not yet lost.

By: JessRoss

JessRoss — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:42:20 +0000

So I ordered a book online since the nyu bookstore was out of it but it hadn’t come in time. This forced me to use the google book search version so I could read the assignment.

By: Mushon

Mushon — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:52:14 +0000

Yes after reading that I thought that might have indeed been the case. I hope this clip is worth the enticipation…

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:12:06 +0000

Also I would have thought the sarcastic “thanks mom” at the end would have been an indicator that that was what I was posting. Sorry if it was unclear.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:08:46 +0000

I was NOT doing that. I posted an e-mail from my Mom who was trying to bait me into watching a YouTube video, which I did not watch. You said we were supposed to say when we were ambushed and how it happened, and that was an instance of that.

By: amandicle

amandicle — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:42:33 +0000

Also it’s hard to remember sometimes that the little search bar at the top right-hand corner of my web browsers takes me automatically to Google. I am just so used to using that search section.

By: amandicle

amandicle — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:41:48 +0000

So I was “attacked” by Google all morning in my Business of Media class. For this class Ted Magder (our lovely dept. chair) has had each of the students create their own personal blog, which he has compiled in his Google reader. We spend the first 15-20 minutes of class reading through some of the blog posts so I was “using” Google all morning. We also had to watch a YouTube video. Not much I could do beyond run out of the room and I didn’t think that would go over so well.

By: Mushon

Mushon — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:35:47 +0000

Hey Jessica, this is completely unethical… not only are you breaking the rules of our challenge, but you’re trying to get the rest of us to fail as well? You should know better…

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:25:08 +0000

E-mail from my mom:

This is hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWHlvtWhum0

Although I guess you can’t watch it until after the Week with No Google!

Thanks mom.

By: andrea_arellano

andrea_arellano — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:00:59 +0000

Google strikes again. Check out this article guys:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/business/30google.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:55:50 +0000

I thought of a commercial I’d seen, and to refer to it I was THIS close to going to YouTube, but I looked for alternatives. Frustration ensued. Nowhere has exactly what I’m looking for, and even though I have no way of knowing if YouTube even has it, I feel convinced that YouTube would “get” what I’m looking for better than dailymotion, veoh, and vimeo. ARGH!!

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:44:21 +0000

Also, am I right in assuming that I can’t post a new blog until I am approved?

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:22:11 +0000

Lamentably, the first post I make as a recent addition to NMRS is to report that I had to break the week without google mandate. I am currently in a state of phonelessness (weekend trip to Vermont gone horribly awry) and today I had to see if I had a meeting to help plan NYU’s Earth Week. In this dilemma I had no choice but to look through my old Gmail account and find my Co-President’s phone number in an old email. I will try to plan for this situation in advance.

And I miss G-chatting. It made having no cell phone a lot more functional.

By: nayoung

nayoung — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:57:44 +0000

It wasn’t a hassle. Thanks for suggesting it–it really helps.

By: Mushon

Mushon — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:43:29 +0000

This might be too much of a hassle but:
http://www.usingmac.com/2008/6/18/change-safari-default-search-engine

By: nayoung

nayoung — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:31:41 +0000

Gah! I accidentally typed something into the google search box in safari! It’s like a reflex; whenever i’m curious about something, my pointer goes to the upper right!

By: Mushon

Mushon — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:12:04 +0000

I guess that would be close enough, though you will still maintain your dependence on Google. (it’s up to you)

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:03:45 +0000

What if I write my posts in word, and then have my blog partner post them for me? That way I wouldn’t actually be going to the Blogger site…

By: Mushon

Mushon — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:45:48 +0000

hmmm… Jessica, any chance you can open a temporary blog on Wordpress.com or another similar online blogging platform and just leave a note on your Blogger site that you’ll be posting there this week? (you can always copy-paste your posts back into Blogger in a later time). That is of-course if you want to do the extra work of proving you’re an addict but “you can quit any time you like”.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:52:47 +0000

I have to use Blogger every day for another class, but so far I haven’t watched any Youtube videos and that’s kind of what I do with my evenings. Stay strong, people.

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By: Mushon

Mushon — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:56:19 +0000

Super relevant! Thanks for posting. (it’s a very good blog btw…)

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:33:31 +0000

When I got home tonight, this was one of the top stories on digg:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10154371-16.html?part=rss