Get the ?Freedom to Internet Party? started!
One of the Istanbul- Taksim?s most popular night club which often hosts interesting events and concerts has organized a special night called ?Freedom to Internet? party a few nights ago. I couldn?t be there, but I find the idea really interesting because it?s a really ironic, meaningful and also enjoyable way of protesting the censorship of internet in Turkey.
Matt Mullenweg lecturing on 29 May. Contact info. Facebook Turkey stats here. ***************************** The Partisan Internet and the Wider World from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan Is the internet making us more partisan? This is one of the most persistent debates in the study of cyberspace. Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, author and now Administrator … Read more
New CHP leader’s addressing of PM Erdoğan as “Recep Bey” became a Twitter phenomena a few days ago (The Istanbulian: What Is Recep Bey?) AKP members responded by setting up a website called Recep Bey (http://www.recepbey.com/) and began striking back. In the mean time, Kılıçdaroğu gained quite a number of fans at Facebook (Turkish opposition … Read more
[What is Arizona Senate Bill 1070?] AAA Challenges New Arizona Immigration Law from American Anthropological Association by damondozier In a strongly-worded resolution passed by its Executive Board on May 22, 2010, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) condemned the enactment of a new law in Arizona that would allow law enforcement to investigate an individual?s immigration … Read more
Traditional media’s adoption of social media from kottke.org by Aaron Cohen Think about the following platforms and when the first traditional media activity/participation occurred in that platform’s history: Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Chatroulette. It was a shorter and shorter period for each platform.* Let’s call this the adoption half-life. It’s a bastardization of … Read more
As part of the series designed to ?map the terrain? of war corporatism, beginning with charting the private corporations contracted by the Human Terrain System (HTS), corporations with military, intelligence, and other specializations, then examining the various other human terrain efforts outside of HTS, and then generally considering how anthropologists and other social scientists have sought to capitalize on the ?war on terror,? one of the elements that was missing was an outline of who the academics are that train HTS employees. We already know the identities of several social scientists, and others, who have formed part of Human Terrain Teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we have had no list of those who train them?the academics behind the curtain. This is an attempt to fill in that gap, using and synthesizing materials freely available online, and with some leads and other information provided by Roberto González, John Stanton, and Jamil Hanifi, and three former HTS employees who have contacted me by email. Needless to say, it is unlikely that the list and overview provided here is a complete one.
There are those trainers who are not attached to either UNO or the University of Kansas as faculty.
The U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee (HASC) has issued a criticism of the Human Terrain System, limiting its funding until the U.S. Army can submit a formal review that addresses ?certain concerns.? (Thanks as well to ?Napkin Chagnon? for the update.)
In a document titled, ?H.R. 5136 ? Nation Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011,? the HASC stated the following regarding HTS (see page 25):
It ain?t over, but it seems like HTS is at least ?on hold? for now.
The House Armed Services Committee, in its version of the defense budget bill, says it ?remains supportive? of HTS. But, as Spencer Ackerman points out, the committee says it will ?limi[t] the obligation of funding?the project, until ?the Army submits a required assessment of the program, provides revalidation of all existing operations requirements, and certifies Department?level guidelines for the use of social scientists.?
If there?s one entertainment device that people know and love, it?s the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*. Recently, however, an increasing amount of our entertainment experience is coming from our phones and computers. One reason is that these devices have something that the TV lacks: the web. With the web, finding and accessing interesting content is fast and often as easy as a search. But the web still lacks many of the great features and the high-quality viewing experience that the TV offers.
The Guardian reports that The Financial Times made a last-minute decision not to publish this ad, placed by Amnesty International:
According to the article, the paper left it until the last possible moment to pull the hard-hitting ad, which was due to appear today to coincide with Shell?s annual meeting in London.
The Pirate Bay finds a new server and continues to survive! The Pirate Bay to RIAA: We Are Unsinkable from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder We must admit we?ve predicted The Pirate Bay?s downfall ages ago, but it still hasn?t happened. Things were indeed looking grim for the file sharing service: first, there was the lawsuit … Read more
“To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet. Related Article »…. ******* Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated from apophenia by zephoria From day one, Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to … Read more
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated “rms“,[1] is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[2] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software … Read more
Blog Blame Game
Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism
In many weeks, there are stark differences between the social and mainstream media news agendas. But last week, the same two stories that dominated the traditional press ? the attempted bombing in New York?s Times Square and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ? also drew the most attention in the blogosphere.
I wouldn’t call them hackers. Some folks discovered a way to make everyone they want follow themselves, and they even made this trick public.
it looks like the Turkish guy was an Accept fan:
via A story about the Semantic Web Interviews with: Tim Berners-Lee Clay Shirky Chris Dixon David Weinberger Nova Spivack Jason Shellen Lee Feigenbaum John Hebeler Alon Halevy David Karger Abraham Bernstein
