Cyberculture

Online Tools for my Students. The 2nd Edition. Part I

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Well, it was to update my tools list as the new semester starts:) This is the essential part. The second part will include many untested tools I came upon during my never ending surfing sessions… Submitted by: wenz Posted at: 2010-07-08 09:48:15 See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/28663 *********************************************************************************** Online Tools for my Students. The … Read more

Turkey has no shame: Vimeo censored now… #vimeobannedinturkey #censorshipinturkey #turkey #vimeo

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Turkey Adds Video-Sharing Site Vimeo to List of Blocked Websites

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Tonight, the 6th episode of Sosyal Medya @sosyalmedyatv @cuneytozdemir @ardakutsal

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Tonight comes the 6th episode of Sosyal Medya. I was a bit disappointed with the last episode as my involvement in choosing guests were minimised and we have had a lower rating. Today we are back at business. Our main guest will be Cüneyt Özdemir, the well known TV Journalist whose one of new projects … Read more

FP blog on the 6 mysteries about Stuxnet

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Stuxnet 6 mysteries about Stuxnet from FP Passport by Blake Hounshell By now, you’ve probably heard of Stuxnet, the mysterious computer worm that infects Windows computers running software designed by Siemens, the German industrial giant. The software, Simatic WinCC, is what’s known as a SCADA system — “supervisory control and data acquisition” — and it’s … Read more

President Gül’s unfortunate statement on web censorship

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from Turkey’s Gul says pleased with increasing consencus on new .. President Gul attended the World Leaders Forum at the Columbia University in New York and delivered a speech “What Next? Turkey’s Global Vision for a Prosperous Future”. Referring to the blocked access to some global sites, President Gul said, “I want to reiterate once … Read more

Twitter has a problem today…

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update: Twitter Explains Security Exploit from Mashable! by Christina Warren Twitter Mouseover Security Flaw Affecting Thousands of Users [WARNING] from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder Twitter has the plague this morning … from Boing Boing by Maggie Koerth-Baker If you’ve noticed some frustrating brands of funkiness going on with Twitter this morning, it’s not just you. … Read more

Steward and Colbert team up against Tea Party?

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Stewart And Colbert To March On Washington With Facebook Fans from All Facebook by Caitlin Fitzsimmons The Daily Show is using Facebook to organize a ?Rally to Restore Sanity? in Washington DC on October 30. ?I?m mad as hell, and I?m not going to take it anymore!? Days of rage: the Tea Party & America’s … Read more

Tonight, the 4th episode of Sosyal Medya

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The 4th episode is to start in half an hour. A well known script writer, Birol Güven, also an active Twitter user with will be with us. Among other things, he will talk about how he uses audience feedback in social media. Bülent Somay, a well known scholar of psychoanalysis, a Sci-Fi fan and translator … Read more

#iyikidogdunhrantdink – Turkish democrats Commemorate Hrant Dink with a Twitter Campaign

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I don’t think we have enough numbers to make the commemoration of Hrant Dink in his birthday a worldwide Twitter trend but we try… Campaigners’ tweets can be found here #iyikidogdunhrantdink [happy birthday Hrant Dink] Turkey ‘failed to protect’ Dink from Yahoo news The European Court of Human Rights rules that Turkey failed to protect … Read more

Wikileaks to release more military documents!

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Wikileaks to soon release massive new cache of military documents from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Newsweek reports that Wikileaks will soon publish what is believed to be an extremely large cache of war documents, constituting the biggest military leak of all time. The exact number of documents and the nature of their contents have … Read more

EFF provides the 2nd volume of E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy v2

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EFF’s E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy v2 Can they keep track of book searches? Google Books Yes Logs all search data with IP address. Will also associate searches with user’s Google Account if logged in. Will not associate searches with users account if not logged in. Amazon Kindle Yes Logs data on products viewed and/or … Read more

Tonight, the 3rd episode of Sosyal Medya

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the 3rd week in Sosyal Medya. I am in the studio. We have fixed an important problem: how to transfer web interactivity to the TV screen. Now we are ready to receive our audience’s questions through our twitter account: http://twitter.com/socialmediatv Tonight we have four guests: Haluk Şahin, a well known professor of communication, who will … Read more

“Wikipedia Founder: Apps, Not Paywalls, Could Save the News…

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Wikipedia Founder Says Apps, Not Paywalls, Could Save the News from Mashable! by Samuel Axon Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with the Associated Press yesterday that paid apps like those found on the iPhone, Android and iPad could help financially troubled news organizations, but he didn?t have anything positive to say about … Read more

the latest victim of web censorship: Grooveshark

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Increasingly popular music site Grooveshark was banned yesterday. The most possible suspect behind the ban is MÜYAP, the Turkish music copyright agency that caused many related bans before. A Friendfeed discussion in Turkish on the ban can be found here.