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Tag Archives: Google
Panoramio: To boldly go where no Google car has gone before
Panoramio was a geo-located tagging photo sharing site whose goal was to allow Google Earth users to learn more about a given area by viewing the photos that other users had taken at that location. It was sometime around 2008 that I signed up, and Panoramio soon became my new home for (retroactively) geotagged digital photos of mostly Johannesburg (my previous geographic home) as well as any other places we visited. Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged blurmany, cartography, data protection, flickr, geography, Germany, Google, panoramio, privacy, public privacy, South Africa, technophobia, travel
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Charlie and the Dirty Thumb
Two rather disturbing events took place last week. 12 people were gunned down by the extremist nitwit Kouachi brothers at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. In another twist of unrelated coincidence, it was the 7th of January — the same day as the shootings — when I saw that my old Google Group had been declared non grata. Continue reading
Posted in Humour
Tagged #JeSuisCharlie, boobies, cartoons, censorship, Google, murder-death-kill, muslims, wasted youth
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