A short introduction to the semantic web. All source material is on the Digital Bazaar wiki: http://wiki.digitalbazaar.com/en/sema…
Erkan's academic interests
“Anthropology and Journalism: April AN Now Online
Now I see why my abstract to AN’s special issue was rejected. All giants of anthropology and journalism did chip in the special issue and i am not a giant for sure:)
Anthropology and Journalism: April AN Now Online
from American Anthropological Association by Dinah
April Anthropology News In Focus commentaries on anthropology and journalism are now posted on our Current Featured News page, free to the public throughout the month. Authors include S Elizabeth Bird, Dominic Boyer, Maria D Vesperi, Mark Allen Peterson, Shannon May, Barbara J King and Gary Feinman. Full issue content is available via AnthroSource, including additional thematic articles from other sections by contributors such as Mark Pedelty and Kathryn Graber.
Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (7)- Ideefixe in e-book business, İsmail YK’s Facebook video and more…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps8hCFfaScg İsmail YK’s video: Facebook. An art of kitsch work. Tick Tock Boom Digital PR Agency presents this social media landscape that includes many Turkish sites… One of my former students and my Beşiktaş buddies Yiğit Kalafatoğlu is involved in two web projects: Emeğini Koru [Save your labor] focuses on rights issues and inserting e-signatures … Read more
iPad roundup
Still happy with my Sony Reader but I know iPad rocks…
iPad Accessories: A Quick Guide to Apple?s Official Add-Ons
from Mashable! by Amy-Mae Elliott
Janine Wedel: Global elites undermine democracy
Anthropologist uncovers how global elites undermine democracy from antropologi.info – anthropology in the news blog by Lorenz Janine Wedel has done something that far too few anthropolologists do: She studied powerful people. Those who rule the world. In her book ?Shadow Elite?, she shows how a new system of power and influence has taken hold … Read more
Milliyet’s archive online
A major Turkish daily Milliyet’s archive is online now… (dates btw: 3 May 1950– 30 June 2004)
BBC special on “the Virtual Revolution”
Making of the programme The Virtual Revolution’ was previously known as Digital Revolution (working title). It was also a radical change for BBC documentary making – an open and collaborative production, which asked the web audience to debate programme themes, suggest and send questions for interviewees, watch and comment on interview and graphics clips, and … Read more
Two Announcements: Free Software and Linux Days Event/ Internet Week
Official site in English. the 10th Internet Week events organized by a platform of Internet related associations. Call for Action in Turkish here.
“Open Access at Duke
Global Pulse 2010: An invitation to talk to decision makers online
from Global Voices Online by Lester Bolicenni
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.
“2010 Annual Meeting Call for Papers Deadline Approaching (#AAA2010)
2010 Annual Meeting Call for Papers Deadline Approaching
from American Anthropological Association by Jason
The deadline to submit proposals for the 109th Annual Meeting in New Orleans is only 10 days away!
How can you participate?
Ian McEwan and the anthropologists
Ian McEwan, Jingpo villagers, and the anthropologist
from Culture Matters by Third Tone Devil
In Ian McEwan?s new novel, Solar, an anthropologist of science named Nancy Temple causes the downfall of the hero, Michael Beard, a Nobel laurate physicist, by resigning from a committee he heads in protest to his statement that women are just not as interested in physics as men, and this has to do with biological differences. The press then accuses Beard of being a social Darwinist, a eugenicist and a hegemon, and digs out his womanizing to compound the evidence of him being a misogynist.
YouTube vs. Viacom
YouTube: Viacom secretly posted its videos even as they sued us for not taking down Viacom videos
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
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 campaign on Wikipedia starts
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