I haven’t realized any reactions to Azeri bloggers’ verdict in Turkish cybersphere but reaction certainly grows around the global blogosphere….
last Updated: 18 Nov, 00:15
EU Presidency Statement on Azerbaijan
Council of Europe: Conviction of bloggers in Azerbaijan ?a blow to freedom of expression?, say PACE rapporteurs
[I will probably update this post- and now updating 2 days later:)]
last updated: 17 November 2009: 20:00
I cannot escape from Atatürk. He is everywhere:)
ASLS people did a great job, we have finished a very well organized conference thanks to Mihaela and her friends. And how hospitable they were! Among the people I met, Onnik (Armenia) and Jacop (Poland) has to be mentioned particularly but I was also excited to meet people from Azerbaijan (Emin and Parvana) and Georgia (especially Dodie!). Although Turkey is very close to Azerbaijan through national ties and all, I don’t think I have had made any intelligible conversation with any Azeris before.So this was the first time.
It seems that there is LIVE free coverage at the moment. We are notified that Azeri bloggers are actually sentenced today:(
Our session begins now… Online journalism…
Last updated: 16:30
Pre-conference notes. It is very likely that I will not able to see Bucharest at all. Except the route from the hotel to the Parliament Palace. We stay all day in the conference hall. I don’t really mind though. If only I could get the Romanian dailies to add to my newspaper collection, my mission will be completed:)
Pork is very dominant in Romanian food. That means I am a little malnourished in terms of proteins (!) Well, I don’t eat pork. A Turkish hypocricy. I consume alcohol but not pork. Anyway, the conference is about to start… Today I am presenting sometime between 14-16. Today there seems to be a shift in focus: more about what can be done with blogging politically and financially then dealing with oppressive regimes…
As of now, I am done with my presentation. Today’s lunch was non-pork (!) and i relieved and happy.
E-Democracy Panel. 14:00-16:00
Parvana Persiyani highlights the cause of Emin Mili and Adnan Hajizade, two bloggers who have been arrested in Azerbaijan because of a satirical video they made…
This is a post to be built all day…
Erkan decides to be think more about microblogging. This conference turns out to have main focus on microblogging.
Ramon Stoppelenburg narrates his story. He says any innovative move in internet will win… Boy, it is such a story. Who is this crazy dutch guy? Check out the links below:
The Dutch Ramon Stoppelenburg (1976) started blogging from his student loft somewhere in 1998. But he became world famous for being the first ever person to travel the world for free, totally relying on the hospitality of strangers from all over the world, who invited him over through his website www.letmestayforaday.com. Over 3,577 people from 72 countries invited him over and from 2001 to 2003 he travelled through 18 countries in total, varying from Norway to South Africa and from Australia to Canada. In return for the offered hospitality he received, he wrote extensive daily reports about his whereabouts, his hosts, their life and the culture of the country he was visiting. His website had once processed over 1,2 million visits in one month. The British Sunday Times even called him the Internet Personality of the Year 2001.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Stoppelenburg (wikipedia)
- http://www.ramonstoppelenburg.com/ (English blog)
- http://www.letmestayforaday.com (travel site, the archives)
Never before have so many people been threatened or imprisoned for what the words they write on the internet.
I am honored to be invited as a guest speaker to World Blogging Forum that will take place in Bucharest, Romania (9-12 November 2009). I am excited to meet some of the great bloggers. In fact, I feel like an amateur among them but that’s all right. I will happy to meet them. Mihaela is … Read more
Web based Turkish journalism sites’ representatives were invited to Presidential reception for the Republic’s 86th anniversary yesterday as note here.
A list of invitees:
En Son Haber
Gazeteport
Haber7
HABERTÜRK
haberciler.com
Haber Vitrini
MEDYATAVA
Sonsayfa
Süper Poligon
Türk Time
A roundup on journalism and cyberculture follows:
Erkan is jury member in this event:
Are you a PR student, researcher or educator doing great things with social media?
Here’s your chance to have your achievements recognised, boost traffic, link to leading colleagues, present your work at one of Europe’s leading social media conferences – and win 250?!
As part of its EuroBlog investigation into the impact of social media on public relations practice Euprera will make three awards at its February Symposium at Ghent, in Belgium, February 2010. Each winner will receive a prize of 250?.
Timetable
Shorlist announced: Sunday, January 24
Entries and nomonations open Sunday, October 11
Deadline for entries: Friday, January 1, 2010
Deadline for final blog postings to be considered by judges: Friday, January 8
Over the weekend, the White House new media team announced (via AP) that whitehouse.gov now runs on the open source content management system Drupal. Tim O’Reilly puts this news into context:
A huge roundup on cyberculture follows:
The EU Parliament has on several occasions stated that access to the Internet is one of basic human rights. Now, Finland has become the first country to actually declare fast (broadband) Internet access a legal right.
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
This speech will be delivered in Strasbourg on Thursday, 08 October, 2009
Intervention Speech for the Cross-Border Internet: Consultation meeting organised by the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 8-9 October 2009
By Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate Professor in Law, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University.
It is a great honour to be here today in Strasbourg at the Council of Europe, and to be very close to the European Court of Human Rights. For me, as an academic working in the field of human rights and new media, in particular with regards to legal and policy issues surrounding the Internet since the mid 1990s, the role of both the Council, and the European Court has been crucially important.
and more from cyberspace:
The Google Wave is one step closer to breaking after the announcement that invitations would be sent to some 100,000 developers, business and university customers and first-time users to preview the service.
A ‘wave’, which is a browser-based tool that is ‘shared, live and in equal parts conversation and document’, has created a particular buzz amongst journalists who see the opportunities that combining email, instant messaging and real-time interaction, opens up. It could very well change the way journalists currently work.
