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"Trial of Pirate Bay website opens…

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Pirate Bay in wikipedia…
Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm (L) and Peter Sunde ...

Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm (L) and Peter Sunde arrive for their trial at Stockholm’s city court February 16, 2009. Pirate Bay co-founders Svartholm, Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom were charged by a Swedish prosecutor with conspiracy to break copyright law and being an accessory. (Bertil Ericson/Scanpix Sweden

Trial of Pirate Bay website opens in Stockholm

The most notorious and defiant individuals in the world of online file sharing, charged with facilitating copyright infringement, have entered not guilty pleas

Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm: Day 1

By Cory Doctorow on Copyfight

Wired’s Threat Level blog has coverage from the first day of the trial of the creators of the Pirate Bay, the huge torrent-tracker based in Stockholm. It’s a sold out event, with scalpers selling tickets (!) outside the court.

Stormy waters

How The Pirate Bay sailed into file-sharing infamy

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Registration week begins…and Erkan offers some weblinks…

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  The busiest week begins at Bilgi. That is, the course registration week. I got up at 8 am and I have slept only three hours. It is always good to recognize how good the early morning is but then you got up late again whenever you find the opportunity… Anyway, this week i am … Read more

"Turks circumvent YouTube ban

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 I have been using Ktunnel or similar sites to access Youtube.  A few days ago, we replaced a systems file – I do not how to describe it in proper technical terms- and now I can directly access YouTube! Until the next phase of web censorship, I guess…

 

Turks circumvent YouTube ban – The National Newspaper

Turks circumvent YouTube ban – The National Newspaper

Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent
Last Updated: January 16. 2009 9:30AM UAE / January 16. 2009 5:30AM GMT

ISTANBUL // Two months ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, stunned the public by admitting that he has joined hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens in doing something that the country’s courts say is forbidden: watch clips on the internet video portal YouTube.

Commenting on a decision by the main secular opposition party to accept women in strict Islamic clothing into its ranks for the first time, Mr Erdogan told reporters accompanying him on an official visit to India in November they should ‘get on YouTube’.

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"Gaza, a virtual war zone

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Gaza, a virtual war zone

By Hamid Tehrani

jidfDescription: The 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict began on December 27th when the Israeli forces bombed Gaza. In this conflict, digital tools have been used by the Israeli government, main stream media, human rights activists, residents in Gaza, and pro Israel and pro Hamas groups.

Tools: Twitter, blogs , You Tube and Face Book. It seems Twitter was the “star” of digital media in this conflict.

Turkey rejects Israeli FM’s visit if no talks on ceasefire proposal

Turkey’s foreign minister told his Israeli counterpart that she could visit Turkey on the condition that the terms of a ceasefire be on the agenda of the meeting, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.

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"The 10 Coolest Open Source Products Of 2008

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The 10 Coolest Open Source Products Of 2008


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Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944). Golgotha, 1900. Art Institute of Chicago Announces Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth

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Erkan provides the ultimate round up of 2008 lists (!)

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Check out my delicious bookmarks: 2008  Here are previous round ups.. 2007 2006

"Academic blogs attract growing audience

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" News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age

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Severed cable disrupts web access

Undersea internet and phone cables from Europe to the Middle East are severed, raising fears of major economic repercussions.

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"Balkan politicians wage Facebook wars..

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"Online journalists jailed more than other media

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A personal ad for Taraf daily. As Taraf tries hard to survive financial, an ad campaign started. Readers paid for these kinds of ads. Here it says, "I switch to use the cell phone service who chooses to give ads to this newspaper, I mean it."

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"Turkish Website Blocking Statistics as of 01 December 2008

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"Top 100 Anthropology Blogs

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There is a good compilation of Anthropology blogs here. In fact, not all of them are blogs but in the end it is the best collection of Anthro sites and blogs. Have a look.

" A Critical Assessment of Internet Content Regulation and Censorship in Turkey

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Internet: Restricted Access: A Critical Assessment of Internet Content Regulation and Censorship in Turkey (Released on 25 November, 2008) By Dr. Yaman Akdeniz & Dr. Kerem Altıparmak Published with the support of “Freedom of Expression” Programme of İnsan Hakları Ortak Platformu. How to obtain the Book: Internet: Restricted Access: A Critical Assessment of Internet Content … Read more

"Facebook is a weapon of mass construction

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"Turkish Website Blocking Statistics as of 01 November 2008

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