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Evening Internet: Note 441 - In search of Turkey
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So the summer has come. As if there were no other seasons on the Soviet globe. Recently, brown vegetation, covering the dirty earthly surface of the Leningrad district of Moscow, sharply green, delighting the muddy from the undercuts on the window glass of the observer's eyes. It's time to declare the May holidays and fly south to meet the birds.
If this did not interfere with some unsuccessful circumstances of the family-biographical properties, I would certainly be going on vacation in some unexpected European capital, such as Prague or Zurich . Alas, the best half of my family wears in my pocket a passport of such a Jamahiria, whose citizens are not too eagerly allowed into Moscow, not to mention Europe. So I had to dance from the visa regime in choosing the route. That is, either the CIS countries , or Tunisia / Egypt , or something completely Balkan-Turkish. At the latter, we opted for common sense. The country of Bulgaria is good, we decided, but we need Turkish coast.
The problem with Turkey is quite obvious and is distinct social. What to watch in Egypt , Israel , Prague , Paris , London , Cyprus, Crete or Malta - even if I myself did not know the answers to these questions, I would easily find whom to ask. About the azure coast, Switzerland, Andalusia or California - similarly. But with Turkey everything is not so simple. None of my Russian acquaintances there, alas, go. Neither for the shuttle purpose, nor for the sake of rest. Israeli - traveled from time to time, but mainly explored the Antalya and Marmaris casino there, and not the riins of Ephesus or Pergamum. The gambling -tourist business is a boring thing: you buy chips for 2 kilobax, the company pays for the road and the hotel. He flew, lost, flew away. Memories - standard: there were 2 thousand dollars, now they are gone. What is Pergamy here, what an ephez. In short, there is no one to ask about cultural and historical rest in Turkey.
With Turkish guidebooks, not everything is perfect. On the magazine trays of Sheremetyevo-2 airport, where I was the same for the next family need, three translated tourist reference books in this non-part country are sold, one other glossy. I acquired two out of three, studied both for 20 minutes (the scarcity of intelligible information with more than filled up there an abundance of color photographs of Turkish Aksakals, Saxauls and new buildings, as well as brief essays of Turkic phonetics), and once again convinced that the cook would learn to control the state, and the camel would go through the needle ears, which will begin to take away normal ones. Guidebooks for translation into Russian. Having decided not to wait for this unlikely event, I went to the Lonely Planet server, to the Turkish section , which predictably met me with a reminder of the midnight express . Of course, the online version of my beloved guide is noticeably loses paper, but there, nevertheless, I gathered more useful information for free than in both guidebooks, which I had 340 degenerated rubles on the Sheremetyevsky tray. Along the way, the handful of not quite predictable links was grinded:
- Images of Istanbul [🔗] - True, the page address has changed since the observer from Lonely Planet was the last time
- Ethnic Cuisine: Turkey [🔗] (with a historical excursion and a brief phrasebook; it turns out that Yeshil means "green", and not "charter flights" or "Shavarma", as the conjuncture of the corresponding sign over the price of the same turbine might think at the sight of the appropriate sign, it is also a suture)
- Turkish Cuisine [🔗] - Culinary recipes at the University of Maryland
- The Turkish style[🔗] is the online version of the cult photo album [🔗] on the server Turknet [🔗] , rich in the most unexpected resources, such as the virtual exhibition "9000 years old Anatolian woman [🔗] " (so much live!), Or Turkish Music Club [🔗] for lovers of one (very long!
- The Turkish embassy in the USA [🔗] - with impressive, albeit excellently tasteless in terms of the tourist section [🔗] . On the server of the embassy there was even an interactive catalog of burning guides [🔗] - though, unfortunately, only for American and Canadian tourists, which has some influence on the price of vouchers, including the cost of pickup through the Atlantic ...
Further, my road lay to Russian servers dedicated to Turkey, its hotels, tourist attractions, order and morals. It turned out that the industry for sending to Antalya and its environs of Russian guests is quite widely represented on our Internet. On the server www.travel.ru I was generated by a selection of travel agencies , worth from $ 148 to 3980 for a wandering soul. I was especially pleased with the company " Barma and Postnik " (it hurts the good name). A brief certificate in Turkey , with consular services and travel agencies, was found on the same server. Immediately nearby, in the traveler’s archive , a selection of 24 publications about the joys of recreation in Turkey was found, including an excellent article by Anatoly Sosnovsky “ Turkish march on four wheels ” - with exhausting instructions for me, how to rent a car right at Antalya Airport and go around the whole Mediterranean coast with a race to the Greek Rhodes and in the continental Pamukkala. In fact, having read this article from the journal "Rest" for the fateful August 1998, I already knew exactly what I wanted from Turkey. However, we did not stop his web wraps.
I still had to study the Bulletin of IS Banko - an excellent catalog of cheap tourist offers, updated in real time; The base of hotels and burning tours on the Coral Travel server ; comb the Rambler's section of travel ; Go around the lubby store of burning vouchers and dozen other sites of a similar orientation. At the end of these trips, clarifications and requests, I was tired so that the word "Turkey" was nothing more than longing. I recalled an article by some next paranoid on the forum , where it was proved that the abundance and speed of information received not so much make it possible to add an “objective” picture of events, how much they increase chaos in our ideas about world processes (the author obviously did not read Ekklesiast , otherwise he would have found a shorter formula for the presentation of the same thought).
The practical conclusion made by me from the virtual searches of Turkey was as follows. Information in the web is enough today, on any any relevant topic. With the tasks of the initial accumulation of information raw materials of the Internet - both the world and the Russian - copes quite successfully. The tasks of the systematization of accumulated good are also solved with one degree or another; An unconditional success here can be called the experience of developing a standard column in Yahoo. Every regular user of this catalog will easily tell you how to get from its root to the Tourism in Turkey section without resorting to software search by keywords: the procedure is standard, one for all countries taken into account (regional => countries => the name of the country ), and is easily intuitively understandable. The main that remains the problem of organizing information flows is the presentation of information to their final consumer in a form that would remove the conflict between two mutually exclusive requirements. On the one hand, there is a unity of style, shape, source, on the other hand, pluralism and a variety of contents. Anyone who successfully solves the problem of connecting these two qualities within the same server will probably be able to make a serious competition of Yahoo in terms of the degree of demand for his information product.
Until now, I happened to see only one serious experiment in this direction: The Mining Company . This is a collection of continuously updated thematic resources, each of which is written and edited by a specialist in the profiling area for this particular section. In contrast to Yahoo and search engines, Mining Company gives the visitor the possibility of covering the information of interest to him not only and not so much lice as deep as deep. Instead of a hundred addresses where you can read about the subject, five are offered - but the best, selected by hand by the leading editor of the department and commented on them. I can safely say that according to those plots that are highlighted in the Mining Company, the resources of this system are often out of competition on a global scale. Unfortunately, the installation for advancement deeper, and not in breadth, creates a certain lag in the sense of coverage. If you take the same Turkey, then it is not presented in the Travel section at all. The hardware search for the word Turkey gives 1635 finds devoted mainly to the recipes for preparing turkey on the day of thanksgiving ... This, of course, is a trifle and an annoying accident, but it is quite symptomatic in terms of assessing the restrictions of the method chosen by the creators of Mining Company. The principle is “better than, but better” has its obvious shortcomings - and the one who finds the best way to overcome them (for example, having improved the technology of expert “digging” and putting them on an industrial flow) will create an extremely promising and demanded information service. Of the Russian experiments in this genre, it is worth noting the List.ru catalog (mastering the Mining Company model in its content projects), the paths in the AU catalog, as well as the dossier from Sasha Sherman in Gazeta.ru. Without trying to compare these three undertakings, whether in quality, coverage or frequency, it is worth noting that none of them claims to be a fundamental “closing of the topic”. Most likely, even before the fall, we will witness the emergence of new experiments in the same genre of "deep information drilling."