Laura (our online community manager) just made a post of all the new things in MyTIG. You can read it here http://www.tigblog.org/group/tignews/post/327287.

I will however mention a few things again, just because we keep getting the same complaints.

1 - Your groups/projects subscription list. This will be coming back. It will be under "My Content", a new section called Involvement. This is still under construction so for the time being, you can make do by going to the main page of projects and/or groups to view your list.

2 - List of people that recently visited your profile. This will also be coming back. Although right now we're not sure where we're going to put it.

3 - "How do I edit my info?" I think a few people are missing the new tabs along the top. So for example under "Profile" there are 3 subtabs, called "Basics", "Contact", "Personal". You will find these subtabs on a few other sections as well.

As to new features...

- Bulletin Board This is super awesome. If you befriend anyone, you can see their participation on the TIG site.
- Resources For you. It recommends resources based on your city, interests, country, etc.
- Submitted Content. You can view everything you've done, whether its been featured, etc.
- Comments I've Made. This is really cool. You can see if there are new comments after yours.
- Tagging and tagclouds http://www.takingitglobal.org/tags/
- Widget. So if you like this post, rate it UP! :)

That's it for now. If you have any issues, email broken [at] takingitglobal [dot] org. Or go to our discussion boards and post it under "Error & Bugs".

So, that's it for now. I hope you truly like it. A lot of hours, effort and thought has gone into this, trying to make it as best as it can be. :)

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http://tigurl.org/kkavau

My thoughts on an article “With friends like these…” [source]

Geez all this guy does is b!tch about the creators of facebook and how they’re all getting rich.

I find funny how he’s saying people are substituting dancing/talking/going out with facebook. Like really? Haven’t we all at some point or other decided to be solitary by either reading a book, or watching endless tv or playing a game (world of warcraft anyone) for hours on end instead of going out there and ‘socializing’? What is this guy, 10? Can’t you multitask? You can be on facebook, while you read, or watch tv, or you ARE with your friends (facebook mobile…)

I specially love the privacy thing at the end.

1. We will advertise at you: Everyone on the web does this. Did you know that gmail scans your emails to target ads to you?

2. You can’t delete anything: Of course, because they have something called BACKUPS!

3. Anyone can glance at your intimate confessions: because something got cached? Thats not a facebook specific issue!!! Because someone hacked into their database? Again, not something that may only happen to facebook. Because someone downloaded the content to their computer? Not even going to bother explaining that one.

4. Our marketing profile of you will be unbeatable: I think this is great. They created a system that ‘knows’ what I want to see. Amazon does this btw. And they did it first.

I obviously disagree with the article. The only thing I can maybe, possibly agree with is that they have a lot of information about you. What they do with that data is not up to us. But if you think about it for a bit, havn’t you given your information to other websites at some point or other? Amazon has your credit card AND address. Ebay, Paypal, BestBuy, FutureShop… How do we know they’re not showing/selling/giving that data to someone else?

Originally posted here on my blog.

51% win! Thanks to the students and all their effort. They made this possible. That maniac will hopefully not be our president come 2012. It almost makes me want to go back and be in my country.

Anyway, here's a really good article about yestarday.

Read article here

"Why don't you shut up?" the king shouted at Chavez, pointing a finger at the president when he tried to interrupt a speech by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Serves him right. For blabbering on and on.

** EDIT **
English dubbed video:

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/11/11/ariosto.chavez.shut.up.cnn

you dont spend your time in only one website, you move from one to another.

now, same thing is bound to happen in 3d virtual worlds. does your money go with you? your clothes?

i cant help but laugh at the idea of a second life character moving to world of warcraft world...

Aparently musicions are not getting paid much in the music business, thanks to the internet. Solution: pay a flat fee on your ISP provider.

They 'think' the same thing will happen to TV.

Agree y/n? (with both the flat fee and the same thing happening on TV?)

"Venezuela's National Assembly, dominated by allies of President Hugo Chávez, gave unanimous initial approval Tuesday to constitutional changes that would allow him to run for re-election and possibly govern for decades."

Great. Now he'll never leave.

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3 different versions are floating around. According to Scholastic, one of them is real.

I am going to stay away from anything that remotely tells me the ending of the book, because I, a loyal fan, will be out there to buy the book (and will have it read by Monday). Apparently I'm not the only one, with 2 million pre-orders alone in amazon.com, and people all over the place getting ready to stand in line at midnight on friday.

How is it that a book can possibly have so much impact on our culture? It seems that Harry Potter has only been carrying momentum for the last few years. The movies I think, had a huge part in it. It a great job of bringing a world to life that until then only existed in your imagination. Then there's also the fact that the books took so long to come out, and that each year you saw them struggle through similar things you had to struggle through as you were growing up. Who didn't have a goofy friend like Ron? or a smart-ass friend like Hermione?

Suddenly these characters, that we've grown up with and have become part of our popular culture, are in the hands of 700+ pages, in a book that is set to be released at midnight, worldwide. Everyone wants to know what happens. How can you not? This is more part of you than barbies, or GI Joes (or whatever kids are playing with these days).

But then some stupid distributor screws up, book gets released 3 days early. How do you get away from learning of the fates of your favourite characters when there is such a thing as the internetz out there? You don't know if when you click on a link, there will be the ending of the book clearly laid out there for you to see.

Which is why, by Monday, it will be impossible to not know how the book ends. If its this difficult this far (with a day to go), when Monday comes around, there is nothing in place to prevent you from hearing about it.

Problem is, will I be able to get a book this weekend?

Apparently one version is leaked.

"Rowling has warned readers to expect at least two deaths, but the version online is a bloodbath, according to people who have read it."

A bloodbath? What does that mean? more than 2 characters? All characters?

"Venezuela's replacement of an opposition television station on Monday with a state network promoting President Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution drew sharp criticism that the former soldier is attacking democratic freedoms."

I'm so sad. I mean its just so... wrong.

A president shouldn't have the power to do this.

Source http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2825744120070528

Llega Semana Santa y la gente deja de ser gente. El gobierno implemento la "ley seca", donde no se permite vender/comprar alcohol por la mayoria de la semana. Con todo y eso, botellas fueron lanzadas a todo el mundo, peor aun, un tipo saco una pistola y se puso a disparar a la gente.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKuOTl2Fkqs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM4KdCNI98k

Es este momento en el que me da pena ser venezolana. Pero al mismo tiempo, vean y aprendan. La violencia nunca llega a nada.

Edicion: no me fije, pero los primeros 2 segundos del video 2, muestran a un tipo con una pistola en la mano.

I really cannot comprehend what kind of mental state you have to be in to decide to do such a thing. And really, there isn't much I can say about it. Its awful, period.

The media usually takes the entire ordeal so much further than it should be allowed to go. Even reading about it its morbid. Usually you read about how they were bullied, or how something made them snap, or some sort of excuse that humanizes them.

But this time, I'm not seeing it.

I am reading a lot of "shooter was a South Korean student" headlines. I actually read one article where it said "...student Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old South Korean national and resident alien." (source).

There are lot of these headings.

The fact that a shooting happened, again, makes me really sad; that the media is blaming the entire incident on the fact that he was not a US citizen, makes me angry.

Funny thing though, he was a US resident, and he had been in the US for 14 years (source) , he actually had legal right to buy that gun.

But no, lets blame it on the 'resident alien', and prejudice people from South Korea. Same thing happened in 9/11 with people from the middle east right?

Lets not look at the deeper issue here, that the kid was troubled, and that with those troubles, he was allowed to walk in a store, and buy a gun.

Posted originally on http://sikodelika.livejournal.com/11020.html

How do you spam databases without submitting the information through a form?

Would love to hear from you,

Yaz

"The country led Latin America in per capita consumption of beer in 2005, at 83.3 liters, slightly surpassing U.S. consumption levels."

So when the president passed a law that says no alcohol during easter week (to diminish car accident fatalities --which are super high during easter), then venezuelans complain. But when injustices like political kidnappings, firings for political bias, scarseness of food, to name a few, when those happen, then nobody really cares.

But hells no, you mess with their alcohol, and they freak out. Perfect example to show where Venezuelan's priorities lay.

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