How disinformation spreads in a network FlowingData » Visualization by Nathan Yau Disinformation is kind of a problem these days, yeah? Fatih Erikli uses a simulation that works like a disaster spread model applied to social networks to give an idea of how disinformation spreads. 2017 predictions for Big Data, IoT, and AI The Next Web by … Read more
Obama just freed whistleblower Chelsea Manning The Next Web by Bryan Clark President Obama just effectively freed Chelsea Manning from the 32 remaining years in her jail sentence, according to the New York Times. While it’s not a presidential pardon, the commutation of Manning’s sentence will see her go free in just five months. Chelsea Manning to … Read more
Turkish Academe Under Attack Turkish scholars describe a growing intolerance for dissent. February 12, 2016 By Elizabeth Redden In the early morning hours of Jan. 15, the antiterror police came to Yucel Demirer’s home. He was taken to police headquarters, where he shared a cell with fellow Kocaeli University professors who, like him, had signed … Read more
CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald Much of the world spent the last 48 hours expressing revulsion at the U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. It was quite clear early on that the perpetrator of the attack was the U.S., and many … Read more
Survey: 96% of Recruiters Use Social Media to Find High-Quality Candidates All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison A Few Tips for Blogging Growth Daily Blog Tips Blogging is competitive and if you are new to it, you might face a tough challenge. In order to create a fan base and gather an audience around your blog, you need … Read more
Silk Road trial verdict: Ross Ulbricht found guilty on all counts Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Ulbricht faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison. Read the rest Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht found guilty for all 7 conspiracy charges The Next Web by Napier Lopez Today, Ross Ulbricht, known by his online alias “Dread Pirate Roberts,”was … Read more
Finance media’s hottest club is Ello Nieman Journalism Lab by Caroline O’Donovan By now, you’ve probably heard of Ello, the anti-Facebook social networking site founded by a handful of graphic designers. Though initially meant to be a closed experiment in network building, Ello grew popular due to its anti-advertising, anti-data mining stance. As Kyle Chayka … Read more
Graft probe tapings consistent with transcribed files A forensic report on a graft probe started last year has said the transcribed documents and tape recordings of the telephone conversations between the high-profile suspects are consistent Pope Francis to visit Virgin Mary’s House in Turkey Residents of the western town of Selçuk enthusiastically await Pope’s visit to Christian … Read more
Ello Cofounder Doesn’t Think Facebook Is a Social Network Mashable! by Karissa Bell Ello, the independent, invitation-only and ad-free social network that went viral almost overnight, is often compared to Facebook. Indeed, the still-nascent social network has already gained a reputation as the “anti-Facebook.” Everything you need to know about Ello, the latest trendy social network … Read more
Young people are the most likely to take action to protect their privacy on social networking sites Oxford Internet Institute – Blogs Internet Archive posts millions of images from old books on Flickr The Next Web by Josh Ong Internet Archive uploads more than 14 million public domain images to Flickr Evidence Grows That Online Social … Read more
p.s. eksik gördüğünüz paylaşımları yorumlara eklerseniz, ana sayfaya eklerim… Change.org kampanyası Görseller için buraya bakınız: http://erkansaka.net/archives/29005 Sayfalar Ortak Platformu’nun Facebook etkinlik sayfası. 18 OCAK #SansürüDurdur Yürüyüşü Facebook sayfası. İnci Sözlük & Uludağ Sözlük destekli Sansürü Durdur sayfası. Yeni İnternet Yasasını açıklayan güzel bir listeleme. Alternatif Bilişim Derneği Açıklaması Korsan Parti Açıklaması Çevrimiçi güvenlik araçlarıdan seçmeler url tabanlı … Read more
How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics To translate one language into another, find the linear transformation that maps one to the other. Simple, say a team of Google engineers China Will Unblock Facebook and Twitter in Free Trade Zone China?s ambitious Shanghai Free Trade Zone is designed to welcome foreign … Read more
Technical glitch gives Iranians access to Facebook, Twitter, official says Iranians gained direct access to Facebook and Twitter for the first time in four years because of a technical fault In Iran, ?God Has Freed Facebook? For the first time since 2009, millions of Iranians are able to share their status updates on Facebook. … Read more
NSF/PRISM skandalı bağlamında dijital gözetim meseleleri ana konumuz olacak. Edward Snowden’ın konumunu da tartışacağız. Tartışmaya Marmara Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Müh. Bölümü / Alternatif Bilişim Derneği’nden Doç. Dr. Melih Kırlıdoğ gelecek. Ayrıca Ömer Atakoğlu ve Orkut Murat Yılmaz da katkıda bulunacak. Ömer Atakoğlu (Alternatif bilişim/ nemedya eşkurucu / aktivist) (twitter.com/omeratakoglu) ile Drupal yazılımı üzerinde de duracağız. Programın son bölümünde … Read more
TINYBEATS (SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH) tinybeats puzzle parçalarını bulduğunuz değil, yarattığınız bir sosyal film projesidir. Sizin göndereceğiniz videolarla kurmaca uzun metraj bir sosyal film yapmayı planlıyoruz. Aklınıza gelen her şeyi çekmekte özgürsünüz. Seçilen videoların sahipleri uzun metraj filmin yönetmenleri olacak. Kendinizi tanıtıp yanınızda ben varmışçasına yepyeni bir anı yaratabilir ya da hali hazırda bulunan neşeli, … Read more