updates: More on Internet intellectuals and the Haystack affair from Net Effect by Evgeny Morozov So the Haystack Affair (is there a Wikipedia page named after this already?) continues generating food for thought for those of us working at the intersection of free expression, Internet censorship, and media development. How US sanctions made Haystack from … Read more
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 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’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
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 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
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.
I am now heading to studio. I guess I will not need to be there this early as the program starts at 23:00 at TRT Haber but for the first weeks I have to be there and supervising…. I won’t be in the screen tonight, too but I will appear eventually in later weeks. Oh … Read more
Sexual Assault Case Against WikiLeaks Founder Reopened from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder Sweden?s chief prosecutor has reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Recently, Assange was accused with crimes of molestation and rape by the Swedish authorities. Assange has denied the allegations, claiming they are ?without basis,? and later calling the case a … Read more
When I was trying to access Daily Motion, it was filtered in all Teacher Guest Houses I stayed during my Eastern Anatolia trip. This aggressive warning appeared…
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update: Swedish prosecutor drops WikiLeaks rape charge GLOBAL GUERRILLA: Julian Assange from Global Guerrillas by John Robb Julian Assange is the front man for Wikileaks. Wikileaks, if you haven’t been keeping up with current events, is a network that runs a site dedicated to making leaks easy. It’s been very effective at this. Wins … Read more
A Review of Verizon and Google’s Net Neutrality Proposal from EFF.org Updates by cindy Efforts to protect net neutrality that involve government regulation have always faced one fundamental obstacle: the substantial danger that the regulators will cause more harm than good for the Internet. The worst case scenario would be that, in allowing the FCC … Read more
Google Ending Google Wave from Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen Google will kill off Google Wave, they told in a blog post. It was a technically very inspiring web app which, however, arrived without any particular and clear use case. This caused not only interface usability problems (Wave was good at allowing you to do … Read more
Pentagon orders Wikileaks to delete classified documents from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza In a briefing at the Defense Department, Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell ordered Wikileaks to remove classified documents and return them to the U.S. government. Pentagon to WikiLeaks: Return Our Secret Documents, Or Else from Mashable! by Ben Parr Should Wikileaks join the … Read more