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Amazon vs. Macmillan

January 30, 2010 by admin

Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the civilian casualties

from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

iPad emerges as Erkan plays with his humble Sony Reader

January 28, 2010 by admin

A few days ago, I got a Sony Reader as a gift from Ayhan. It is a way modest gadget compared to iPad but still I love it. It has immediately boosted my reading level which had been down lately. Well, with something like iPad, e-reading will be even more sensational, i guess…

Best Coverage, Tweets of Apple iPad Event

from MediaShift

Anthro research hit the news: Don’t trust the number of Facebook friends:)

January 25, 2010 by admin

Well, as a person who has more than a thousand friends in Facebook, I had already experienced that, now we scientify it (!):

Brain Can’t Handle More Than 150 Facebook Friends Finds Oxford Boffin
ITProPortal
A professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University has found out that human beings are physically limited to being able to link up and manage up

Despite web censorship, Turks are heavy social media users

January 25, 2010 by admin

Here is the latest news on Turks into social media: Turkey: The land that embraced Facebook, FriendFeed and startups ……… Furthermore, last year ComScore released a report showing Turkey has the third most engaged online audience in the world, with 30 hours spent online each month ? that?s actually behind the US and Canada. See … Read more

Google officially changes attitude towards China censorship

January 13, 2010January 13, 2010 by admin

A new approach to China from The Official Google Blog Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it … Read more

“Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship

January 12, 2010 by admin

Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship

from CyberLaw Blog

Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship (PDF file)

Prepared by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate Professor, Human Rights Law Research Center, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University.

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“Bono’s filesharing hypocrisy…E-reader market… Nexus and more…

January 9, 2010 by admin

More on Bono’s filesharing hypocrisy: Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge

from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

Public Knowledge founder Gigi Sohn tackles Bono’s recent NYT op-ed, in which the rock star suggested we follow China’s lead on net-filtering technology to limit the scourge of file sharing. Ms. Sohn writes: But the most absurd thing about Bono’s endorsement of draconian copyright enforcement is that it undermines just about everything else he professes to stand for. Look at the activities and goals of One, the nonprofit organization Bono co-founded. One is “committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.” It “campaign[s] for better development policies, more effective aid and trade reform. We also support greater democracy, accountability and transparency to ensure policies to beat poverty are implemented effectively.” Among the specific issues One works on are the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDs and malaria, increasing access to quality education and ensuring trade policies that “create economic growth and opportunities for the poorest people.”

T. Boellstorff: Coming of Age in Second Life

January 6, 2010 by admin

I recently finished reading Tom Boellstorff’s Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. As an anthropologist Prof. Boellstroff added another site to the Archive of anthropology. It surely became a must-read in the growing anthropological literature on cybercultures. My major concern is what he repeatedly insists (also in the quotation … Read more

FT on Wikipedia: “Wikipedia: Fact and friction

January 3, 2010 by admin

Wikipedia: Fact and friction By Richard Waters Published: January 1 2010 22:17 | Last updated: January 1 2010 22:17 It is one of the great paradoxes of the internet: an essentially open medium has created deeply entrenched information powers. Within a remarkably short time, companies such as Google, YouTube and Facebook have come to dominate … Read more

Global Voices at 5. Congratulations!

December 29, 2009 by admin

Five Years of Global Voices: Where they are now

from Global Voices Online by David Sasaki

The following was originally published at http://www.el-oso.net and is part of a series of posts commemorating Global Voices’ fifth anniversary and supporting of Global Voices’ 2009-10 online fundraising campaign. If you would like to support our work, please visit our Donate page. Thank you!

Five years ago I boarded a flight from San Diego to Boston to attend the 2004 Internet & Society conference at the Berkman Center. This was just a month after George Bush won the 2004 election and so there was an element of group therapy to many of the panel discussions. 2004 was the year when, according to Wired Magazine, the Internet invented Howard Dean. Dean’s campaign was supposed to be the harbinger of a new era of net politics where the progressive grassroots took advantage of online tools like blogs and Meetup.com (this was before YouTube even existed) to bring about more enlightened, representative governance. Instead, according to the ever-snarky Register, ?organized religion, not net religion, won it for Bush.?

Google Docs down for more than half a day

December 9, 2009 by erkan

update 19:15– Ok I got Docs back. back to full work of blogging:)

Am I the only one? Nobody around me uses Google Docs frequently. Most of my blog post drafts are kept in Google Docs and in fact, nearly all my writings:) I have never seen such a long time of disruption in the service…

Google Docs

Server Error

Google Docs has encountered a server error. We are looking into the problem now.

You might be able to download your document by right-clicking it in the main docs list. Select “Export as” and the format you prefer.

By right clicking… That doesn’t work, too…

Sesawe offers tools to circumvent web censorship

December 28, 2009December 7, 2009 by erkan

I had stopped shortly in a blogger/new media training session last Friday, that focused on Eurasian bloggers and new media people. You can check their work here:

Eurasian Stories | Digital Stories from Eurasia

and videos made in the workshop:
http://eurasianstories.blip.tv/

I have met Eric who works with a website called Sesawe. This site offers great tools and recommendations to circumvent web censorship. In their site:

Where sesawe matters:


Yemen	Egypt	Syria	Cambodia	Kyrgyzstan	Moldova
France	North Korea	Kazakhstan	Morocco	Sri Lanka	China
Saudia Arabia	Ethiopia	Turkey	Belarus	Thailand	Sudan

CHECK OUT MORE AT Sesawe

My brief notes from Eric’s speech:

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