Sevcan reports from the Etohum summit

Today there was Etohum Summit of Entrepreneurs/Teams for 2011. via In total, there were 40 projects and today the first 15 projects were selected. The investors were also there in addition to many students from several universities. The people who could not come to the event due to the weather conditions found chance to watch … Read more

Pardus 2011 released

New versio of Linux-based OS from Turkey has been released. Have a look at its page in English. Two discussions in Friendfeed in Turkish. here and here.

A website in tribute to murdered Journalists in Turkey; two more websites censored in the mean time…

A Turkey based gaming site Sanalika banned now. Grou.ps is also banned. Toplumsal Bellek [Social Memory]  is a website dedicated to murdered journalists. here is the link for English version. Gerçekler ortaya çıksın, kim incinecekse incinsin!

Banned Fizy wins the Mashable award

Banned Turkish website wins international award from Hurriyet Dailynews Though banned at home, a popular music- and video-sharing Turkish website walked away with an award for best music search engine at the Mashable Awards. 2011 Flash Points: Open vs. Closed, Google vs. Apple from MediaShift Social Media content on MediaShift is sponsored by the John … Read more

Fizy found responds back to MÜYAP

Fizy founder, Ercan Yaris, responded to MÜYAP’s claim that they did not pay copyright fees. It is also quoted here.  A letter to MÜYAP from users here.

Final part: Part 6: Twitter reactions to #cablegate (mostly) from Turkey

eski dünya düzenine dönüş başladı bile.. aliyev: ben öyle bişey demedim gül: bilmez miyiz, zaten inanmamıştık. al gülüm, ver gülüm — Mirgun Cabas (@MirgunCabas) December 1, 2010 Son "Taraf linci" gösteriyor ki, Taraf'ın "yandaş" olduğuna inanan sadece ulusalcılar değilmiş. Bu "aldatılmış sevgili" ruh hali çok acıklı. — ahmet kılcı (@ahmetkilci) December 2, 2010 Wikileaks devam … Read more

Remzi Ünal, INETD 2010 conference, Top 100 sites – Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (16)

Some of Celil Oker novels have been translated and published in Germany, Netherlands, UK and Greece. Author of detective novels, Celil Oker decided to write stories of his main protagonist on Twitter. He tweets one twit daily. He set up an account for Remzi Ünal, the detective in Mr. Oker?s novels.. Top 100 sites users … Read more

Part 5: Twitter reactions to #cablegate (mostly) from Turkey

http://twitter.com/cemilertem/statuses/9942133511290880 http://twitter.com/cemilertem/statuses/9942731136700416 http://twitter.com/FUATUGUR/statuses/9896268927074304 http://twitter.com/Turkeyreport/statuses/10010977651138560 http://twitter.com/aktaserdogan/statuses/9909047390109696 http://twitter.com/ismailhpolat/statuses/9886486107267072 http://twitter.com/yavuzbaydar/statuses/10004161672257536 http://twitter.com/ceriLevis/statuses/10024306905972736 http://twitter.com/mervesebnem/statuses/9981456038236160 http://twitter.com/mervesebnem/statuses/9985093359632385 http://twitter.com/kerim/statuses/10133086125686784 http://twitter.com/TRTTurk/status/9910646258802688 http://twitter.com/TRTTurk/status/9911123117604864 http://twitter.com/TRTTurk/status/9910959682355200 http://twitter.com/atilganbayar/statuses/9995974424395776 http://twitter.com/atilganbayar/statuses/9997189463932928 http://twitter.com/yildarado/status/10086646917627904 http://twitter.com/hasiralti/statuses/10110487056355328 http://twitter.com/akif_emre/status/9998175897133056 The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is also expected to bring such a ban soon. — akif emre (@akif_emre) December 1, 2010 http://twitter.com/fatoskarahasan/statuses/10082970782146560

Part 4: Twitter reactions to #cablegate (mostly) from Turkey

found in Photo from viva la deep Kimse deginmedi galiba. Wikileaks olayi Twitter'i tam bir haber platformuna donusturdu. TV'ler ve Gazetelerde olmayan bilgi ve tartismalar.. — Emre Uslu, PhD (@EmreUslu) November 29, 2010 Wikileaks'ın CHP için seçeneği çok çünkü CHP'yi "ankle biter" olarak tanımlıyor seçin:havlayan küçük köpekler gurubu, sıçan, belalı sevgili — cemil ertem (@cemilertem) … Read more

Part 3: Twitter reactions to #cablegate (mostly) from Turkey

Cyber radicals are harnessing the power of the internet to promote social change. Illustration: Lynsey Irvine and Peter Storey for the Observer in The internet’s cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world İnternetin gerçek gücünü arıtık anlamaya başlıyoruz. Wikileaks bir başlangıç. 2 milyar insan, hatta mobilde 10 milyar cihaz birbirine bağlı — fatos … Read more

Sosyal Medya tonight (@sosyalmedyatv). 15th episode with @gokhanturkmen @ceydak @kaansezyum

Here comes another Sosyal Medya night for me. Mondays are my busiest days of the week this semester. 1 hour office hour, 3 hours of lecture afternoon and then after mostly working on blog and doing a little bit of reading I rush to the studio in İkitelli, close to Hürriyet building there. Tonight we … Read more

Part 2: Twitter reactions to #cablegate from Turkey

http://twitter.com/mervesebnem/statuses/9012818556751872 http://twitter.com/itaatsiz/status/9011543890993155 http://twitter.com/mervesebnem/statuses/9008558620282880 Aliyev'in Şubatta Türkiye ve Erdoğan'la ilgili sözleri Türk-Azeri ilişkilerini altüst edecek nitelikte! http://t.co/2RPZO5j via @guardian — YavuzBaydar (@yavuzbaydar4) November 28, 2010 Wiki yakti bizi. Sabaha kadar uyku yok — YavuzBaydar (@yavuzbaydar4) November 28, 2010 http://twitter.com/aktaserdogan/statuses/9158117510094848 http://twitter.com/aktaserdogan/statuses/9158281314435072 http://twitter.com/camurcu/statuses/9148856289726464 Ermeni protokolleri için: değerleri telefon rehberi kadar! — Hale Yerengil (@hale_akay) November 28, 2010 Ahaha, … Read more

A major decision: Erkan’s Field Diary now accepts contributions in Turkish

…and there are some other decisions. See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/28663 I, myself, will continue to post in English and the blog language will still be primarily English but guest authors/contributors can contribute in Turkish. In fact, Can Erol had already started doing that… And some will continue to write in English.. Initial reason … Read more

Acı Şafak, Atabase. Two good blog projects and news from Turkish cybersphere- Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (15)

I have been neglecting this line of posting. Now I am back:) Acı Şafak (Bitter Dawn) is a blog project in which ex-conscripts narrate their service memories. Good work! Atabase is collection of Atatürk photos. A commendable project in its scope… Blogging Turkey– Mavi Boncuk Links for Blogging Binnur’s Turkish Cookbook Cafe Fernando Du bretzel … Read more

Sevcan on the new period at @SosyalMedyaTv

The logo, the concept, even the make-up artist has changed. The last one was about the presenter. From now on, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu will be with Sosyal Medya. Yesterday, we had a surprising experiment when we saw him on screen. Guests were so relaxed while talking and the dialogues were so enjoyable. @mserdark is a … Read more