Sometimes the Wall Street Journal can steer you in the right direction, as it has today by recomending Rollyo, a website that allows you to create your own customized search engine. Basically, you can enter a list of websites where you want Rollyo to search and it will save that list in its own URL so you can use it over and over. You can also add it to your browser search bar.
Usually I wouldn’t be so excited about that. In most instances when I search for something, I want to search the whole web. HOWEVER, when I’m doing pages for the disappeared for Project Disappeared, I often want to search a limited number of sites, those I know that have information about the disappeared. Now I can without having to do it one by one. Tres cool.
Here is my disappeared search page:
http://rollyo.com/marga/disappeared/
you can try it out by typing a person’s name.
You can also put a search box in your own website (see below to the left). This is useful for those of us who have many different domain names, now you can search on all my domain names at once.
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Nope, having a gazillon blogs wasn’t enough. I had to create another one. The Human Rights Blog (www.humanrightsblog.org will be about, well, human rights. News, actions, announcements but also my own and uncensored views about just what’s wrong on the world. Check it out (though you may want to wait a couple of days until there is some content).
don’t believe me? Check out:
desaparecidos.com
As eveyone knows, people trying to make a quick back often buy expired domain names as well as domain names with similar spellings or different extensions than popular websites, hoping that visitors will make a mistake and visit their websites instead. Often times they sell advertisement on these websites.
Thus someone is trying to capitalize on my website http://www.desaparecidos.org with their own desaparecidos.com. They’ve even scanned my site for popular words to put in their site – and they have then sold the linkage rights on those words.
E-bay is one of their clients – though why they’ve chosen to sponsor the word “tortura” or torture is beyond me. Is e-bay really selling torture? They must be doing pretty well if they’ve gotten the US costumer as their client.
This is the letter I sent today to the President of Iran regarding the arrest of hundreds of workers striking the state-owned bus company:
Dear Mr. President,
It has come to our attention that potentially hundreds of workers of the state-owned Vahed bus company have been arrested following strikes in demand of wages and better living conditions. According to the information received, the workers and the workers and their families have been threatened, beaten and intimidated.
We want to remind you that the right to unionize is a human right guaranteed by article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention and the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention.
We respectfully request that you free all the workers and their family members that have been arrested and in particular the leader of the Union of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, Mr. Mansour Osanlu
Margarita Lacabe
Executive Director
Derechos Human Rights
http://www.derechos.org/
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