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Libgen.in seems to have gone, alternatives exist or will emerge…

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Libgen Goes Down As Legal Pressure Mounts  TorrentFreak by Ernesto Most of the top academic articles are published in journals that can only be accessed legally through expensive paywalls…. Some alternatives or mirrors:  http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ http://bookfi.org/ http://scienceengineering.libr… http://bookzz.org/ http://avxhome.se/ebooks Thru Tor: I2p : http://u76v7ha6j4jmtz3k2lseaso5qy36lxs77klhovmptufwcodovatq.b32.i2p/

Cyberculture roundup: Insult over Twitter as criminal offense, The Court states…Stressful moments in gaming, political tech fails, big data issues… …

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Turkish court recognizes insult over Twitter as criminal offense from Hurriyet Daily News An Istanbul court has judged a Twitter user?s insult toward a Turkish model to be a criminal offense.   Russia’s #1 Netizen Heads to Trial from Global Voices Online by Kevin Rothrock Pussy Riot, eat your heart out. Later this week, on … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Alleged WikiLeaks Source Bradley Manning on trial, Syria Goes Dark, E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy…

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Alleged WikiLeaks Source Bradley Manning Takes the Stand from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Bradley Manning’s pre-trial hearing: live-blogging, live-tweeting, and live-sketching from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Judge considers unusual plea deal for accused WikiLeaks source Manning from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin The Associated Press has details on the unusual plea deal being considered … Read more

An edited volume: “Punakademics” – free to download…

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  Punkademics Edited by Zack Furness The basement show in the ivory tower… In the thirty years since Dick Hebdige published Subculture: The Meaning of Style, the seemingly antithetical worlds of punk rock and academia have converged in some rather interesting, if not peculiar, ways. A once marginal subculture documented in homemade ?zines and three … Read more

The new capitalists by Fawaz Gerges/ Yale?s Open Courses/ Massive Courses, Massive Data and more.. Academic roundup

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Massive Courses, Massive Data Harvard and MIT hope their free online courses will not only give learners access to top courses, but also give education researchers access to unprecedented pools of learning data. The new capitalists: Islamists’ political economy, Fawaz A Gerges from open Democracy News Analysis – by Fawaz A Gerges Islamist parties are … Read more

An Academic roundup: “Connected Learning” from Henry Jenkins/ 55 free Philosophy Courses/ Netwar 2.0 and more…

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Henry Jenkins: Connected Learning: Reimagining the Experience of Education in the Information Age This weekend, I am attending the Third Digital Media and Learning Conference, hosted by the MacArthur Foundation, as part of their efforts to help build a field which takes what we have learned about young people’s informal learning, often through the more … Read more

our lovely Library.nu closed down by a coalition of international publishers so that we can continue to BUY their expensive books

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the best alternative seems to be this: http://gen.lib.rus.ec but not good enough… update: Some friends recommended this site. I haven’t checked it yet though… http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks update2: another seemingly working alternative: http://en.bookfi.org/ update3: Dear Kaan Öztürk has posted a “requiem” for library nu in Turkish. have a look. I found 3 more alternative sites from that post: http://www.libgen.info/ http://lib.org.by/ http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ Book … Read more

Net Neutrality debates continue; A Guide to the Open Internet, DDoS versus human rights organizations etc- a roundup

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A Guide to the Open Internet: What You Need to Know About Net Neutrality from Daily Bits by noemi You?ve probably been reading/hearing about net neutrality in the recent months. Left and right, people are talking about it ? either trying to push for the concept or trying to take it down. What is net … Read more

Boing Boing’s Charitable Giving Guide, E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy etc…

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Boing Boing Charitable Giving Guide, the 2010 edition from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Boing Boing’s charitable giving guide has become a seasonal tradition of ours, listing the charities we personally support and want to give more attention to. As in previous years, we invite you to add your own favorite charities in the comments section. … Read more

Boing Boing tells “Who spies on your browsing history”

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Who spies on your browsing history? from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow We’ve written before about the security vulnerability that allows websites to sniff your browsing history. A paper from UC San Diego computer science department researchers, “An Empirical Study of Privacy-Violating Information Flows in JavaScript Web Applications,” surveys which websites use this invasive technique … Read more

Authors selling ebooks through Amazon…and an academic roundup

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Celebrated authors bypass publishing houses to sell ebooks via Amazon Discontent over digital royalties prompts Roth, Amis and other leading names to enter into exclusive deal with Odyssey Editions E-books attracting more Turkish readers from Hurriyet Dailynews Interest in e-books, which received only lukewarm support from publishers when they first emerged, is increasing despite worries … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (7)- Ideefixe in e-book business, İsmail YK’s Facebook video and more…

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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

Fancy Facebook related e-cards from “someecard”

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