Check out. Text is in Turkish but you could have a sense: Kahve İçerken Kıraat Da Ettiren, İçinden Kitap Geçen 8 Kafe ListeList by 1. Minoa Cafe & Bookstore My personal addition is Erciyes Cafe in Taksim: *********** Heavy storm in İstanbul cancels 229 domestic and international flights BGN NEWS The Department of Meteorology announces wind … Read more
The Tenure System Is Broken This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps Three in ten adults read an e-book last year; half own a tablet or e-reader E-Books Aren’t Going to Make Print Obsolete Anytime Soon For all the talk about print books being replaced by digital books, … Read more
A Brief Survey of Victorian Science Fiction from Wondermark by David Malki ! At Chicon the other week, I moderated a panel on Victorian and Edwardian science fiction. I?ve read some of the classics ? Verne and Wells and so on ? but I was excited to moderate this panel because it meant I could … Read more
Tumblr users give Congress an earful about SOPA by Cory Doctorow Tumblr has rounded up the effects of its participation in American Censorship Day, a global day of protest of the prosed Stop Online Piracy Act, the worst proposed Internet law in American legislative history. Tumblr users did themselves very proud indeed: Joe Biden: SOPA … Read more
How Social Media Helps Journalists Break News from Social Media Examiner by Rich Brooks Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan I spent the past two days in Cambridge, primarily around MIT, and almost exclusively talking about the ?Arab Spring? and what we?ve learned about social media and protest … Read more
Bram Cohen Justin Frankel Jon Lech Johansen Shawn Fanning Four horsemen of the information apocalypse: Cohen, Fanning, Johansen and Frankel from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Time magazine’s Lev Grossman’s got a great profile of four authors of notorious software tools that formed the nexus of the last 12 years of copyright cold-wars: Bram Cohen … Read more
It is a bit of old news now. In last weeks, a Turkish NGO in cooperation with a local municipality tried to break a world record: Biggest number of people reading together. People gathered in a stadium to do it. They could not break the record. The act itself is a little bit silly and I assume conservative sections of Turkish public attempt to create new sphere of action like this. Still it is better than nothing. It was a nice try:)
