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REPORT: TURKEY’S INTERNET CENSORSHIP PROBLEM

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REPORT: TURKEY’S INTERNET CENSORSHIP PROBLEM The Media Association has released a report analyzing the various aspects of the problem of Internet access blocks in Turkey. The report, looking at the Internet as a new conduit, examines Law No. 5651, which regulates the Internet, as well as the current YouTube and Google IP bans, and makes … Read more

Sevcan asks for help for a Social Media survey…

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One of my friend from our Social Media classes is doing a survey about the usage of social media. First of all the survey takes about 20 minutes I’m sure that you will find it enjoyable. Not only the questions but also the answers which you rate will be so similar with your daily life. … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: New Pew report: The Future of Millennials/ Online Dating lies…

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Featured Report: The Future of Millennials Tech experts generally believe that today’s tech-savvy young people – the ‘digital natives‘ who are known for enthusiastically embracing social networking – will retain their willingness to share personal information online even as they get older and take on more responsibilities.Experts surveyed say that the advantages Millennials see in … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: “Top 10 movies on Facebook” etc…

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Top 10 movies on Facebook

from Facebook Statistics, Application Statistics, Page Statistics
Check all changes of Top 10 movies on Facebook out in last 6 months!

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Nielsen report: “How the World Is Spending Its Time Online

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How the World Is Spending Its Time Online [STATS] from Mashable! by Brenna Ehrlich John Robb interview: Open Source Warfare & Resilience from Boing Boing by Chris Arkenberg John Robb is a globally-recognized author, technologist, and entrepreneur specializing in the complex systems of insurgency and asymmetrical warfare. His book, Brave New War, is an Amazon … Read more

Cyb-Roundup: Google’s new search index, COPPA,

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Our new search index: Caffeine

from Google Webmaster Central Blog by Michael Wyszomierski
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)
Today, we’re announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.

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Cyberculture roundup: Youth and their online reputation; Privacy issues; Transparency etc..

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Pew Research confirms that youth care about their reputation from apophenia by zephoria In today?s discussions about privacy, ?youth don?t care about privacy? is an irritating but popular myth. Embedded in this rhetoric is the belief that youth are reckless risk-takers who don?t care about the consequences of their actions. This couldn?t be further from … Read more

Cyber roundup: Facebook in trouble in Pakistan, Google introduces its TV etc..

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Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.

from The Official Google Blog by A Googler

If there?s one entertainment device that people know and love, it?s the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*. Recently, however, an increasing amount of our entertainment experience is coming from our phones and computers. One reason is that these devices have something that the TV lacks: the web. With the web, finding and accessing interesting content is fast and often as easy as a search. But the web still lacks many of the great features and the high-quality viewing experience that the TV offers.

Google TV

from Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen

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The Pirate Bay cannot be beaten!

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The Pirate Bay finds a new server and continues to survive! The Pirate Bay to RIAA: We Are Unsinkable from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder We must admit we?ve predicted The Pirate Bay?s downfall ages ago, but it still hasn?t happened. Things were indeed looking grim for the file sharing service: first, there was the lawsuit … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Facebook hammered for privacy issues, Blog Blame Game, Adobe responds to Apple and more…

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Blog Blame Game
Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism

In many weeks, there are stark differences between the social and mainstream media news agendas. But last week, the same two stories that dominated the traditional press ? the attempted bombing in New York?s Times Square and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ? also drew the most attention in the blogosphere.

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Turkish intervention to Twitter (!)

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update:

Turkish student apologises for ‘bringing down Twitter’ but denies being a hacker

Twitter hacked by Turkish people

from “Online and offline are siblings” (Social media proverb.)

I wouldn’t call them hackers. Some folks discovered a way to make everyone they want follow themselves, and they even made this trick public.

it looks like the Turkish guy was an Accept fan:

ACCEPT fan causes Twitter to explode

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Global Voices 2010 summit (#gvsummit2010) started

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Damn! This should be where I am now but alas back in Istanbul, blogging about it… Enjoy the feast Onnik and other friends there… The Summit can be followed thru Twitter #gvsummit2010….

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Open Graph: A major step forward by Facebook…

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Facebook?s Open Graph Personalizes the Web

from Mashable! by Samuel Axon

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Most annoying countries according to Google

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Google unveiled a page that lists government requests from Google. Google explains its decision here. Turkey is not at the top of the lists as she just decides to shut down sites instead of more elegant approaches:)

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AP Stylebook [finally] Officially Changes “Web site” to “website”

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AP Stylebook Officially Changes “Web site” to “website” from Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog The story of how Facebook and Twitter users lobbied the AP Stylebook to change ?web site? to ?website? from Bloggasm by Simon On the day the AP Stylebook announced it would change the requirement that its users refer to online destinations as ?web … Read more