Starting with youtube, Turkish Government is continueing to ban access to mainstream websites. These bans include Dailymotion, WordPress.com and the latest addition, blogger.com (or blogspot.com). If we look at these sites, they are all web 2.0 trend community sites where people can express their thoughts freely.

They all got banned because some individual went to the court about what people wrote about him or her and won the case. Turkish government suggests that all these websites set up a local page like Youtube Turkey that is moderated regularly.

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Because of its 10th birthday, Google has created a nostalgic search page searching through the 2001 index. For example, if you search for Youtube or Facebook, it does not bring any results since they were created after 2001.

However, if you make a search for “turkhitbox.com” , you will get a result, which is like … awesome! I highly suggest that you visit Google 2001 search page and check if you are there. I bet some of you can make some interesting analyses.

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Its been some time since my post titled “Selling My Audi A3 for an Audi A5“. I have received my car about a month ago, but couldn’t find any time to post the news here :) I know I said I was going to get a white car, but unfortunately there was no white A5′s left in Turkey. Well, most people say this color tops white anytime, so I am happy with my purchase. The color is pearlescent Avus Silver, an Audi exclusive color. Supposedly, this is the only one in Turkey, due to its high option price. I bought the car for 69,500 Euros including the dealer discount. Originally, the car is somewhere at 75000 euros.

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Eventhough this is a “Ramblings” blog, I never actually made an off-topic post and since I am selling my car, I wanted to give it a shot. I bought this 2006 Audi A3 in January 2006, a year before I started this blog. I bought it for around €32,000. The car has 1.6L FSI which produces 115bhp. The car came with ambition package (sport package), bi-xenon headlights and Bose sound systems. Over the course of two years, I modified the car to my liking. But most importantly, I started the Turkish Audi Club, TurboFSI.net when I bought the car. My car became the first project car, attracting more people to the forums. Well this is another story so I will talk about it at some other post.

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Everyone has a dream when setting up a new blog. I personally want exposure and everything should follow afterwards. I sure would like to be Richard MacManus, the author of Read/Write Web. He lives his dream by running the 15th most popular blog in Technorati. He has an RSS subscriber count of 90551 as of today. He lives my dream and here is how I will reach him:

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John Chow.com wannabe John Cow.com got hacked today. The page redirects to “http://johncow.com/hacked/” The hackers want $100 (only that much?). I guess they expect $100 from everyone visiting John Cow. Or is it just a game played by John Cow to get his visitors’ money? Here is a screenshot of their cool hacked page:

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You have signed up for Feedburner. Changed your RSS feed to Full Feed RSS and built a large crowd of RSS readers on your site.Then you place the counter on your site to show off. But what have you forgotten to do? You wouldn’t believe how many popular probloggers make this simple mistake! I guess even probloggers make mistakes sometimes..

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As of this post, Turk Hit Box finally joins the ocean of blogs in today’s internet! You can find more about me on the About Turk Hit Box page.