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.

Well, let me tell you two reasons why facebook is going to get banned in Turkey:

1. On February, a soccer league referee filed a case against facebook.com after the game between soccer rivals Beşiktaş and Fenerbahçe (both Turkish teams are trying hard to get the league title).
2. A Turkish boy set up a poll asking how he should kill his mother. After the end of the poll, he murdered his mom and “packaged” her in little bags.

I love facebook, and I would really sad to let it go. Seeing the number of java and ajax scripts running on facebook, it would probably be impossible to access through online proxy. On the other hand, some Turkish webmasters were spamming SERP using newly registered blogspot or blogger sites to get the number 1 spot on a given keyword. Likewise, if facebook gets banned, some local facebook-clones will get their share of the friend-network sites.

I can’t imagine if Google gets banned!

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.

via: Webrazzi

Here is the option list:
Pearlescent Avus Silver color
S-Line sport exterior package
S-Line sport interior package
Sline sport leather steering wheel with multifunction buttons and triptronic gear selections
Piano Black interior
Electical, heated, and foldable side mirrors
Optic park assistance at the front and the back
Light package
Adaptive bi-xenons
Bang & Olufsen Sound System (505 Watt)

…. and some small stuff I don’t remember.

Currently, 170bhp TFSI is more then enoughfor in-city driving, but I am planning on getting chip tuning and some new forged wheels following months. The chiptuning should bring the car upto 220 horsepowers, which will be even more fun. One downside would be increase of the already high fuel consumption of 12liters/100kms.

You can see more photos here on my user gallery @ TurboFSI.net Audi Club Turkey

Here is the how everything started. The stock car:

Here are the modifications I made:

1. K&N Air Filter
2. Black front grille & S3 side mirrors
3. Dension Ipod Kit
4. Eibach 5cm Sport Springs
5. 18” Privatz Nets Forged Wheels
6. 225/40/18 Pirelli P-zero Rosso Assimetrico
7. Neuspeed Engine Torque Mount
8. Wimmer-rst chip tuning
9. Medium tint on all windows.
10. Sline Front bumper
11. Votex hatch spoiler and sides

The result and the new car replacing it after the jump…

I really loved how it turned out, but something was lacking for me to enjoy it fully. It just wasn’t fast enough. After all the modifications I was able to make it 125 bhp. Although it is relatively quick compared to the usual cars you see around Istanbul streets (mostly 1.4 or 1.6 liter cars), it is actually far away from being a fast car.

The Audi A5

So I decided to buy a 1.8 TFSI 170bhp Audi A5. I fell in love the second I saw her at the dealer. It has a truly gorgeous external & internal design! I ordered it in white, having spent countless hours cleaning my black Audi A3. The car is on order right now with these options:

1. Triptronic
2. Multifunction steering wheel with DSG paddles
3. Bang & Olufsen Sound System
4. S-Line package (Leather inside & sportier suspension)
5. Heated & automatic folding side mirrors
6. Colored Drive computer

I really wanted to order the Navigation package for visual purposes, but since it is useless in Turkey and make a difference of €5,000 in the final price, I had to leave it. Luckily there is a huge list of standard accessories for the Audi A5 including the Bi-Xenon Headlights. Usually, you should be paying about $50,000 for a car like this in the United States, but here we have very harsh taxes. The price I got was a whooping €71,000 before the dealer discount. I could have bought an Audi R8 for that price in the US. Here is a photo of a white Audi A5 for your viewing pleasure:

and these are the Sline Seats:

I have to wait 3 months before the car arrives; hopefully I will get more discounts when the car arrives. I wonder if I should host a “Who has the nicest car?” contest among bloggers. I sure know John Chow is not beating me with his 2003 Acura RSX! :)

1. Being Polylingual: Eventhough both blogs are written in English, I promote my blog on variety of societies. Since I can speak Turkish, Italian (a little), German & English, I can submit my articles or promote my services in different authority sites of different languages. I know that your searched for “blog directories” in Google, but have your searched for its Italian term?
2. King of the backyard: Its hard to become that unique person everyon is talking about in the blogosphere. Opportunities are dimishing. I would rather be a known person in the village then being nobody in the city. This is why I will aim to get publicity using Turkish newspapers. Getting your blog featured on any newspaper will easily guarantee +500 rss readers, and getting featured only brings more offers from other newspapers & magazines.
3. I am relaxed: Eventhough I have a much smaller audience, I never need to fill a quota. My readers won’t criticize me when I don’t make posts. This isn’t a uptight blog. I am trying new, innovative ideas and I am not following others. You won’t see me making a post about Facebook getting sold, since about a million other blogs have already written about it.
4. I don’t need the money: More people jump of the “make money online” wagon everyday. This is mostly because of their initial excitement of easy money. This is why they eventually lose their interest since after a while, a job of low revenue has a no meaning for them. In my situation, I don’t need this blog to make money. I, ofcourse, want it to generate income, but this blog doesn’t depend on it.
5. Connections: Your connections to others are what actually define you as a person. This is why I am working hard to make my connections strong with worthy bloggers. I do have the connections outside the Internet world, but in Internet, its a whole different story.
6. Offer your services for free: I think this is the most important bit. Free = traffic. By publishing my themes and photoshop brushes, I am actually offering free services to visitors of this blog. I suggest that if you have a relatively new blog, you should somehow find a way to promote your services by offering them for free.

Hope you liked this post. I don’t usually make lists or write long posts, but I really wanted to express my feelings this time.

The PayPal account is registered to “cownapper@johncow.com” and the payment info says “free the cow“.

Well of course there is the other possibility that he is trying to get more backlinks. I would say this is an incredible linkbait, and would explain the 24 hour limit.

UPDATE: Appearently, Cow wasn’t hacked at all as some of you have guessed.

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WordPress uses a simple php script to call for the RSS url for your blog:

<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> RSS Feed” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />

Well, you need to change the RSS feed url on that line after you have changed to Feedburner RSS service. You might be showing of a lot less on your feedburner counter.

Here is a list of well-known probloggers who have made this simple mistake:

1. Shoemoney.com
2. John Chow.com
3. DoshDosh.com
4. Bluehatseo.com
5. JonWaraas.com
6. AndyBeard.eu
7. CarloCab.com
8. AdesBlog.com
9. NetBusinessBlog.com
10. Sabahan.com
11. BlogTrepreneur.com

By the way, keep visiting my blog since I am going to be releasing my first wordpress theme. Its an elegant black & white template called Ali Nazik with custom icons. Here ‘s a preview:

PS (a little note to John Chow) : Talk about link baiting :)