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more headache for Pentagon: “Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs

August 2, 2010August 2, 2010 by admin

Human Terrain System in Wikileaks? Afghan War Diary: Searching for Evidence of the Positive from OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by Maximilian Forte One question we have to ask ourselves is how the managers of the Human Terrain System can use these same records leaked via Wikileaks to make a positive case for the program embedding civilian social … Read more

REPORT: TURKEY’S INTERNET CENSORSHIP PROBLEM

July 29, 2010 by admin

REPORT: TURKEY’S INTERNET CENSORSHIP PROBLEM The Media Association has released a report analyzing the various aspects of the problem of Internet access blocks in Turkey. The report, looking at the Internet as a new conduit, examines Law No. 5651, which regulates the Internet, as well as the current YouTube and Google IP bans, and makes … Read more

Euroblogging roundup (and more from Europe…)

July 24, 2010 by admin

Fundamental challenges for Euroblogging

by Grahnlaw

The Open Europe blog made the point that there is blogging on the fundamental questions of the future direction of Europe, as well as on EU politics in a narrower sense, the outcome of EU policies.

Ethan’s roundup of TED talks

July 24, 2010 by admin

TED (conference) (Technology Entertainment Design), an annual multidisciplinary conference

TEDGlobal: Jason Clay and a sustainable future through corporate collusion

from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan

(Clay?s talk is similar to the one he gave at the Aspen Institute last year, though that talk was more than an hour long and, obviously, was able to cover more territory than an 18 minute TED talk. Here are my notes on that longer talk, which Clay was kind enough to vet and correct?)

Cyberculture roundup: New Pew report: The Future of Millennials/ Online Dating lies…

July 23, 2010 by admin

Featured Report: The Future of Millennials Tech experts generally believe that today’s tech-savvy young people – the ‘digital natives‘ who are known for enthusiastically embracing social networking – will retain their willingness to share personal information online even as they get older and take on more responsibilities.Experts surveyed say that the advantages Millennials see in … Read more

A video to celebrate the 20th anniversary of EFF

July 10, 2010 by admin

20 years of the Electronic Frontier Foundation! from Boing Boing by David Pescovitz

CNN gives in. Octavia Nasr gone.

July 9, 2010 by admin

“We believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward.”^[1]

Octavia Nasr

CNN Editor Resigns Following Controversial Tweet About Hezbollah Leader

from Mashable! by Vadim Lavrusik

Michael Arrington: journalists have a right to express their opinions

from Editors Weblog – all postings by Carole Wurzelbacher

In a recent article, Michael Arrington, writing for TechCrunch, argues that journalists should openly express their opinions and biases, despite the longstanding idea that journalists should hide their political biases. This argument by Arrington comes on the heels of CNN’s firing of Octavia Nasr because of a controversial tweet and the forced resignation of Helen Thomas because of her statements about Israel. “I think journalists have the right to express their opinions on the topics they cover,” he writes. “More importantly, I think readers have a right to know what those opinions are.”

Arrington points to a particular conversation he had with one journalist who refused to state his political party outright. While this journalist felt that hiding his bias would allow him to maintain public credibility, Arrington argues that it is “necessary for people to know his political biases in order to understand his content in context.”

Web Censorship in Turkey: An Impasse due to a Minister who takes it personal, Kemalist complicity with the politically conservative judiciary and Indifferent user base

July 6, 2010July 3, 2010 by admin

I feel that Mr. Yıldırım takes the web censorship issues in a very personal level in his continuously apologetic speeches. Maybe indifference of Google administrators made him angry and he is also annoyed by netizens who criticize him of web ignorance. He keeps on using nationalistic arguments, he acts as if he is the minister of finance and he keeps telling his successes in infrastructural developments and in the mean time he builds an alliance within the information technology community (see the infotech awards below). His road-making etc is all right but I wish he wasn’t involved in information highways. Yes, during his ministry Turkey succeeded to contain all fiber highways in and out of Turkey so that all web flow can be controlled. Now private companies are not allowed to have their own. All submits the central authority. Very successful Mr. Yıldırım…

In a recent BBC news (see below) head of the Ataturk Thought Association defends their position in complaining about videos etc that insult Atatürk. Her mindset is so small that she cannot see that this in long turn weakens Atatürk’s image. She and her crew live so far away from fellow netizens…

And users are quite tech savvy. They can still access Youtube etc. and they don’t need to protest in any way. I saw tons of videos about Sonisphere are already uploaded to YouTube, which is banned for more than 2 years… But the growing censorship begins to threaten digital economies. That’s what I hear. but this does not have an impact on ordinary users yet…

These are Turkish ways sometimes I like (having such ridiculous situations is not easy to achieve) and mostly I hate…

Yahoo’s style guide for web content

June 29, 2010 by admin

here is the style guide site here is the news about it: Email? Not ?E-mail?: Yahoo Creates Style Guide for Web Content ************** British Columbia?s Capital City Officially Names June 30 Social Media Day *************** ROUNDUP EXCLUSIVE: First Teaser For ?The Social Network? [VIDEO] from Mashable! by Christina Warren Facebook Unleashes Open Graph Search Engine, … Read more

New study on Sexting

June 25, 2010June 24, 2010 by admin

Medvedev Tweets from FP Passport by Joshua Keating

Twitter stumbles as Medvedev visits

from FT.com – World, Europe

The Russian president, who is touring Silicon Valley companies, sends his first ‘tweet’ from the offices of the messaging service, which is struggling with outages because of usage spikes during the World Cup

“Sexting”: legal and practical issues

from Berkman Center Newsfeed by syoung

The Berkman Center is pleased to share our Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative’s latest document, which addresses legal and practical issues related to the practice colloquially known as sexting:

Sexting: Youth Practices and Legal Implications (PDF)

The document was prepared by Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Center, for the Risky Behaviors and Online Safety cluster of the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative. It is intended to provide background for discussion of interventions related to sexting. It begins with a definition of sexting, and continues with overviews of research and media stories related to sexting. It then discusses the statutory and constitutional framework for child pornography and obscenity. It concludes with a description of current and pending legislation meant to address sexting.

Declaration against web censorship in Turkey (in Turkish)

June 23, 2010 by admin

Declaration is first announced in these addresses: (to sign declaration personally click here: http://www.sansursuzinternet.org.tr/) Alternatif Bilişim Özgür Interent Cyber Rights Temel Hak ve Özgürlükler Engellenemez 1. Internet kullanıcılarının düşünce özgürlüğü ve bilgiye erişim hakkı engellenemez. 2. Türkiye?de bireylerin, kurumların, ve şirketlerin bilişim alt yapılarını istedikleri şekilde oluşturmaları ve istedikleri servislerden yararlanmaları engellenemez. Sansür ülke ekonomisine … Read more

a brief note for the Anti-web censorship meeting

June 21, 2010 by admin

Three kingpins of web censorship in Turkey: Fethi Şimşek, Binali Yıldırım, Tayfun Acarer via The meeting took place at Kadir Has University. It has a New Media Department. But the meeting was not explicitly supported by the department. Coffee was not allowed: A person in charge rudely warned me that “Floor has been cleaned and … Read more

Milli Motor/ Milli Tüp

June 20, 2010 by admin

Young Civilians launched two sites to make fun the web censorship. Milli Motor (National Search Engine) is an imitation of Google Search Engine but all searches end up linking to censorship news and national documents. Milli Tube (National Tube) is an imitation of Youtube and lists music videos on the right hand side that were … Read more

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Ethan’s roundup of TED talks

TEDGlobal: Jason Clay and a sustainable future through corporate collusion

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A video to celebrate the 20th anniversary of EFF

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Web Censorship in Turkey: An Impasse due to a Minister who takes it personal, Kemalist complicity with the politically conservative judiciary and Indifferent user base

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New study on Sexting

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