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BasBasBas.com

http://www.basbasbas.com/blog/

A Dutch student's personal blog about his exchange in Istanbul, Turkey, experiences, and travels.

Added on: Jun 12th, 2008
Country: Netherlands
Language: English

Author: Bas
Listed in: Travel Places & Geography
Tags: life Turkey Istanbul expat expats living abroad

Recent Posts

Why Google SideWiki is not the source of all evil – and how it will make the web a better place

Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 10:26 in internet, Web 2.0, augmented reality, annotation, addatweet, google sidewiki

With this post I hope to address some of the misunderstanding and fear mongering which surrounds Google SideWiki and other annotation services. First of all, let me explain what Google SideWiki is exactly. Basically, it’s a plugin that you inst...
Follow Friday: blogs that keep me up to date on the new music industry

Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 15:33 in music, internet, lists, work, links, blogs, media, music distribution, music industry

I’m borrowing one of my favourite Twitter memes called Follow Friday, though I hardly ever participate. On Fridays, many Twitter users recommend their followers to follow interesting people that they themselves are following. It’s kind of...
Reception of my paper about online promotion of new music

Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 14:28 in music, life, Internet Marketing, Product launches, Web 2.0, pdf, study, music distribution, music industry, music 2.0

Recently I released a paper titled the best practices of the online promotion of new musical content. I pushed it through some networks and sent it to contacts I’ve made while studying the music business and the results have been phenomenal. Gi...
Best practices of the online promotion of new musical content

Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 13:45 in music, life, Internet Marketing, Marketing, Product launches, Web 2.0, audio, pdf, study, music distribution, music industry, music 2.0

As the regular readers of my blog probably know, I’m writing my graduation thesis about the future of music distribution. Due to some setbacks and unforseen circumstances, this thesis has suffered some delays. However, using the knowledge and i...
Ouch, my calves! (A lesson about barefoot running)

Posted on Tuesday August 18th, 2009 at 19:46 in sports, life, fitness, health, lifestyle, Leisure, running, barefoot, barefoot running, vibram five fingers, barefoot lifestyle

Alright, lesson learned. If you’re going to start barefoot running, start slow. REALLY slow. If you’re following this blog, I bought them. Not just that, I even started a site dedicated to barefoot lifestyle. I’ve become convinced t...
Training Our Kids to Be Hackers

Posted on Sunday August 16th, 2009 at 08:17 in thoughts, internet, china, society, Germany, hacking, iran, censorship, proxies, p2p, filesharing, the netherlands

Due to the recent case against The Pirate Bay in The Netherlands, which could render The Pirate Bay inaccessible to Dutch internet subscribers, I decided to look at ways that I could access the site if it were to get banned. Not because I want to dow...