Blogroll

Erkan’s Field Diary is 15 today! Major design change after 9 years!

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My longest digital experiment/ playground is 15 years old today! There will be a party but around October. I had decided to postpone. The 10th year party was a big hit and I feel like the 15th one should be even a bigger hit. Let me first settle in Istanbul. Nowadays are so hectic I … Read more

A digital archive for late Ottoman-early Turkish cinema

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Prof. Nezih Erdoğan has been working on this project for a while. It has finally been launched here.It is not user friendly but it contains a treasure. and it is just the beginning… there will be more documents uploaded day by day… and a cinema roundup: A controversial new film — “Valley of the Wolves … Read more

A Tarlabaşı blog and an Istanbul news roundup

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A blog that focuses on developments related to gentrification projects Tarlabaşı (Beyoğlu, Istanbul) started here. Istanbul, historic visit of Turkish Deputy PM to Bartholomew I AsiaNews.it Istanbul (AsiaNews) – A visit of great importance yesterday marked the conclusion of the holiday season for the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul Istanbul surpasses New York in cultural … Read more

Check out New Year greeting cards at Caricaturque

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More cards can be found at Caricaturque

Photography of Fatih Pınar

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Fatih Pınar is a professional photo-journalist. His website presents his published photos and videos from Turkey.

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (7)- Ideefixe in e-book business, İsmail YK’s Facebook video and more…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps8hCFfaScg İsmail YK’s video: Facebook. An art of kitsch work. Tick Tock Boom Digital PR Agency presents this social media landscape that includes many Turkish sites… One of my former students and my Beşiktaş buddies Yiğit Kalafatoğlu is involved in two web projects: Emeğini Koru [Save your labor] focuses on rights issues and inserting e-signatures … Read more

the Open Video Alliance campaign on Wikipedia starts

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the Open Video Alliance states that the Alliance launches an important project:” a mass campaign to bring video to Wikipedia. Moving images can communicate ideas in ways that text can?t. We think this is the next step in Wikipedia?s evolution.” In the mean time, check out Kaltura that “allows publishers of all sizes to easily, … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (6)- Cinema related blogs, Censorship news and more…

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Nominations for Turkish Blog Awards Turkish Blog Awards started. Check out an interview (in Turkish) with Hasan Yalçınkaya, a pioneer in Turkish blogger… An ambitious Football Manager online game, Efsane Ol [Be a Legend], in Turkish is launched here. I guess I will start playing, too:) Two old time bloggers: http://nahnu.org/ http://ferruh.mavituna.com/ News.Az – 23 … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (5)- Tivibu and more…

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Dear readers, would you let me know of new sites and blogs I haven’t mentioned yet for the next issues of this series of posting… TTNET, the major ADSL provider, launched a website, Tivibu, to watch TV channels online. First mostly positive impressions in Turkish here. Most visited Turkish news sites according to ComScore: Hurriyet.com.tr, Milliyet.com.tr, … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (4)

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* ? Turkish internet users have recently performed a virtual protest against web censorship: Visualize Dissent: Turkish Users Protest Censorship Using Google Maps * Turkish web enterpreneurship site etohum announced 15 web projects it will support in 2010. * Madde Bağımlısı announced 8 most creative blogs here. * Webrazzi announced a number of successful web … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (3)- Turkish online news sites and more

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A list of Turkish online news sites. Not necessarily the completed list. All new additions are welcome. Aktif Haber Açık İstihbarat BIANET Boyut Haber Cafe Siyaset Dünya Bülteni En Son Haber EtikHaber GazeteDergi.com gazetem.net Gazeteport Gazeteciler Gerçek Gündem: Haber3.com Haber7 Haberkenti Haberler.Com HABERTÜRK haberciler.com Haber Vitrini Haber X Haksöz Haber İnternethaber iyibilgi.com Kodadimedya.com Leyditurk.com MEDYATAVA … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (1)

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I have been saving material about Turkish websites or blogs or e-discussions for a while. Let me offer them to my readers. This is by no means a comprehensive list. But of course I will do my best to find whatever I can find.

As I have recently noted, Turks like to have good productive discussions in Friendfeed. In one of the most recent one, people discuss Google Public DNS. (In Turkish)

Mavi Boncuk offered us 10 Best Blogs from Turkey. I don’t know what criteria they used but some deserve to be in the best list for sure. These are all in Turkish:

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A success day for Turkish cybersphere

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Web based Turkish  journalism sites’ representatives were invited to Presidential reception for the Republic’s 86th anniversary yesterday as note here.

A list of invitees:

Haber3.com

Aktif Haber

En Son Haber
Gazeteport
Haber7
HABERTÜRK
haberciler.com
Haber Vitrini

Haber X

İnternethaber

MEDYATAVA
Sonsayfa
Süper Poligon
Türk Time

 

A roundup on journalism and cyberculture follows:

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