Official site in English. the 10th Internet Week events organized by a platform of Internet related associations. Call for Action in Turkish here.
From March 29 to 31, Global Pulse 2010 aims to gather over 20.000 individuals and representatives of organisations in an online conversation dealing with topics ranging from human development to science and technologies.
In a scorching post on the company’s blog, YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine accuses Viacom of going to great lengths to secretly upload videos to YouTube in order to take advantage of its promotional value even as they were suing YouTube, arguing that YouTube should be able to tell the difference between Viacom videos that were uploaded by actual infringers as opposed to Viacom employees and agents being paid to pretend to be infringers.
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weq_sHxghcg This video was prepared by the UK branch of Dorling Kindersley Books. Originally meant solely for a DK sales conference, the video was such a hit internally that it is now being shared externally. We hope you enjoy it (and make sure you watch it up to at least the halfway point, there’s a … Read more
http://www.zacharyzezima.com VIA Zachary Zezima This week’s issue in Erkan’s life maybe this message from Google Adsense service which is disabled at the moment: Hello, While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently displaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our policies. For instance, we found violations of AdSense policies … Read more
Editor?s note: These are excerpts from material contributed by the Pew Internet Project to the Pew Research Center?s Project for Excellence in Journalism ?State of the News Media 2010? report. Read the full report at journalism.org »
Alternative TV News Reports from EU-DIGEST: Listed below are a few of these alternative TV news stations, which in streaming video and right on your own lap – or desktop can provide you with a different perspective of what is really happening in the world. EURO-News Live: http://www.livestation.com/channels/1?page=466 BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/video_and_audio/news_summary/8070822.stm RT Russian World News reports: … Read more
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
Support the World Day against Cyber-Censorship, 12 March? Global: World Day Against Cyber Censorship from Global Voices Online by Diego Casaes Internet censorship is still a major issue in many countries worldwide. With that in mind, the Paris-based international organization Reporters without Borders (RSF) is promoting its yearly World Day Against Cyber Censorship on March … Read more
Ethan Zuckerman’s new piece on Worldchanging, “Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention,” looks at the technical and social limitations of circumvention of censoring firewalls that we love so much as a tool for helping people in repressive regimes liberate themselves. It’s an excellent and thought-provoking piece that raises more questions than it answers, but it points to some very meaty research problems that people who care about technology and freedom need to attend to.
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
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