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Erkan?s field diary: Top posts of the week and month

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VIA: OK Go free show at Hammer Museum in LA tonight (March 23, 2010) Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-03-28 1- Bilgi University becomes the first private university to unionize in Turkey 2- Behemoth concert tomorrow. 3- the First International Newroz Festival in Istanbul (#istanbul2010) 4- Recep İvedik 3 on February 2010 5- Turkish … Read more

Erkan?s field diary: Top posts of the week and month

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(The sun today during the spring equinox. Happy Spring Equinox Day! Image courtesy of SOHO ? ESA/NASA.) VIA Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-03-21 1- After Barcelona, Turkish Airlines gets Manchester United 2- Recep İvedik 3 on February 2010 3- Barça at Turkish Airlines! 4- Behemoth concert tomorrow. 5- Turkish TV series, a threat … Read more

Erkan?s field diary: Top posts of the week and month

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@ haha.nu Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-03-14 1- Recep İvedik 3 on February 2010 2- Sonisphere festival in Turkey. 25-27 June. A lineup beyond imagination 3- A super busy week ends with a disappointing news. 4- Turkish TV series, a threat to conservative imaginations 5- Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (5)- Tivibu and more? 6- … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (6)- Cinema related blogs, Censorship news and more…

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Nominations for Turkish Blog Awards Turkish Blog Awards started. Check out an interview (in Turkish) with Hasan Yalçınkaya, a pioneer in Turkish blogger… An ambitious Football Manager online game, Efsane Ol [Be a Legend], in Turkish is launched here. I guess I will start playing, too:) Two old time bloggers: http://nahnu.org/ http://ferruh.mavituna.com/ News.Az – 23 … Read more

Erkan?s field diary: Top posts of the week and month

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Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-03-07 1- Recep İvedik 3 on February 2010 2- A super busy week end with a disappointing news. 3- Is Democracy possible in a country where journalists write op-eds in NYT to support the army? 4- Turkish TV series, a threat to conservative imaginations 5-Today I was arrested (and … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (5)- Tivibu and more…

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Dear readers, would you let me know of new sites and blogs I haven’t mentioned yet for the next issues of this series of posting… TTNET, the major ADSL provider, launched a website, Tivibu, to watch TV channels online. First mostly positive impressions in Turkish here. Most visited Turkish news sites according to ComScore: Hurriyet.com.tr, Milliyet.com.tr, … Read more

Erkan?s field diary: Top posts of the week and month

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Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-02-28 1- Today I was arrested (and then released?) 2- Recep İvedik 3 on February 2010 3- ?Ergenekon sees biggest raid today! 4- A roundup of aftermath of biggest raid against Ergenekon 5- Erkan on his way to Belgium 6- Recent anthro work on Love?. 7- Avatar, the movie … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (4)

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* ? Turkish internet users have recently performed a virtual protest against web censorship: Visualize Dissent: Turkish Users Protest Censorship Using Google Maps * Turkish web enterpreneurship site etohum announced 15 web projects it will support in 2010. * Madde Bağımlısı announced 8 most creative blogs here. * Webrazzi announced a number of successful web … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (3)- Turkish online news sites and more

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A list of Turkish online news sites. Not necessarily the completed list. All new additions are welcome. Aktif Haber Açık İstihbarat BIANET Boyut Haber Cafe Siyaset Dünya Bülteni En Son Haber EtikHaber GazeteDergi.com gazetem.net Gazeteport Gazeteciler Gerçek Gündem: Haber3.com Haber7 Haberkenti Haberler.Com HABERTÜRK haberciler.com Haber Vitrini Haber X Haksöz Haber İnternethaber iyibilgi.com Kodadimedya.com Leyditurk.com MEDYATAVA … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (2)

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Part I was received well now comes the second part: A very extensive conference on Internet will take place on 12-13 December at Bilgi U. I-net 2009 program can be found here. New design for Kreavitme – A successful markeing blog. Özlem Hoşcan’s site/blog on marketing with an emphasis on social media. A cool activistic … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (1)

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I have been saving material about Turkish websites or blogs or e-discussions for a while. Let me offer them to my readers. This is by no means a comprehensive list. But of course I will do my best to find whatever I can find.

As I have recently noted, Turks like to have good productive discussions in Friendfeed. In one of the most recent one, people discuss Google Public DNS. (In Turkish)

Mavi Boncuk offered us 10 Best Blogs from Turkey. I don’t know what criteria they used but some deserve to be in the best list for sure. These are all in Turkish:

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