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Tag Archives: internet
New Facebook Notifications
Instead of ordering all notifications by time, Facebook introduced a new algorithm that (once again) thinks it knows what we are interested in. See my response below. Advertisements
AllExperts is dead
Quite a number of readers have come to this blog through AllExperts, where I have been answering questions on German law for a decade. With more than a thousand thoroughly answered questions, my profile there was a great source of … Continue reading
Posted in Family Law, German Law, Germany, Immigration Law, Law, Technology, Travel
Tagged internet, legal advice
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How Social Media made the World better
Two cities walk into a bar. Says Srebrenica: “I was so unlucky that my massacre already took place in 1995. A few years later, and the internet would have saved us. My people could have alerted the world about the … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Facebook, History, Human Rights, Media, Military, Politics, Serbia, Syria, Technology, Travel
Tagged Aleppo, internet, Srebrenica, Twitter
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Where does the Internet come from?
You have all seen these cables on wooden poles, dangling across fields, leading from village to village, from country to country and even connecting the continents underwater. This is how the internet comes into your home. Have you never asked … Continue reading
Posted in Bolivia, Photography, Technology, Travel
Tagged internet, Isla del Sol, Titicaca
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Free Internet
But only for lawyers: (Spotted in Trani, Apulia, Italy.)
Eastern Europe, where Low-Tech meets High-Tech
One of the many things I like about Eastern Europe is the contrast between low-tech and hi-tech, often in one and the same place. For example, you might find yourself at a dilapidated bus station with crumbling concrete, you step on a 40- … Continue reading
Posted in Montenegro, Photography, Romania, Technology, Transnistria, Travel
Tagged internet
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