Top BitTorrent Countries In The World, Top Torrent Towns In The UK from TorrentFreak by enigmax The Digital Music Index is a report produced by Musicmetric, a data and analytics company that maps the trends and preferences of music fans around the world. The data collated and crunched is then supplied to the music industry to … Read more
Turkey would rather jail journalists than address the Kurdish question | Fazel Hawramy from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Fazel Hawramy The state has too long shaped the Kurdish issue as one of terrorism. About 100 journalists are now in prison ? it must end Turkey has put 44 Kurdish journalists on trial this … Read more
Opening our anthropological conversations: An Interview with Tom Boellstorff from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by Ryan I had the chance to conduct an email-based interview with Tom Boellstorff during this past month to explore some of his views about Open Access (hereafter OA) publishing in anthropology. Update: You … Read more
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Dutch Elections: “The Political Centre is Back!” from The European Citizen by Eurocentric The centre is back is the news out of The Netherlands today – from De Volkskrant Dutch vote gives Europe extra time from FT.com – World, Europe It is too early to declare the crisis over. The task of creating the institutions … Read more
What’s actually in the Mohammed video? from FP Passport by Joshua Keating Sam Bacile has reportedly gone into hiding after his film, the ?Innocence of Muslims,? provoked yesterday’s violence in Egypt in Libya, including the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Who is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula? from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Enigmatic Egyptian-American … Read more
William Gibson on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions from Wired Top Stories by Geeta Dayal William Gibson once spent nearly five years studying the complexities of watchmaking, indulging in the accumulation of knowledge for its own sake. “I wanted to grow my own otaku-like obsession,” he said in a phone interview with Wired. Part … Read more
Turkey?s economy runs out of steam from FT.com – World, Europe Growth of just 2.9% in the second quarter is a marked contrast with rates of more than 8% in both 2010 and 2011, and its effects are being felt by Turks Paradoxes of Turkish Pride Foreign Policy Journal Such a law has been used … Read more
?EVE Online? Community Mourns Death of Ambassador Killed in Libya Attacks from Mashable! by Chelsea Stark U.S. Drones Never Left Libya; Will Hunt Benghazi Thugs from Wired Top Stories by Spencer Ackerman The skies over Libya were clogged with U.S. Predator drones during last year’s war. But just because the war ended in October didn’t … Read more
iTunes 11: What?s New from Mashable! by Emily Price Will the iPhone 5 Be Apple?s Best-Selling Gadget? from Mashable! by Joann Pan iPhone 5 Sells Out; Apple Delays Ship Date from Mashable! by Todd Wasserman iPhone 5 or 4S? These People Don?t Know [VIDEO] from Mashable! by Stephanie Haberman Samsung?s weapons in battle against … Read more
Dear Friends, I am very happy to announce that the European Institute of Istanbul Bilgi University has now published the third issue of the Germany Brief. Dr. Peter Widmann, who is a member of the Department of International Relations and the European Institute, is continuing to up-date us about the recent debates in Germany. These … Read more
http://www.facebook.com/efdiary I like to keep EFD as my central venue of digital production. However, there are so many tools and so many ways to produce. I am thinking of mapping out my digital existence. It needs some thinking:) I have had a EFD Facebook page for a while but mostly there was automatic posting from … Read more
Mustafa Akgül hocadan gelen epostadaki bilgilendirme notu: Özgür Yazılım Günü Tüm Dünyada eylül ayının 3. cumartesi “Dünya Özgür Yazılım Günü” olarak kutlanıyor. Bu yıl, 15 Eylül Cumartesi günü, Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir ve Çanakkale’de çeşitli etkinliklerle toplanacak. Ankara’da Ankara Barosu Eğitim Merkezinde saat 14:00 de bir Salon toplantisi ve sohbet toplantısı yapılacak. Toplantıda Pardus Yöneticisi Dr. Ahmet … Read more
El yordamıyla iltica politikası Mülteci konusu sayıları 90.000?e dayanan Suriyelilerle yeniden gündemde. Hükümet başından itibaren sorunu siyasî varsayımlar ve yerli yöntemlerle idare etti. Muhtemelen içsavaşın uzun sürmeyeceği varsayımından hareketle ?misafirlerin? uzun … Read more
Yahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency-Protesters sought to storm the United States embassy during a protest against an anti-Islamic film in Sana on Thursday. I could not follow the related news in great detail but what I understand is that: an a-obscure Israeli director who lives in US produces a very low quality an anti-Islam movie and … Read more