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Part 2: Twitter reactions to #cablegate from Turkey

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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

“Europe simulates total cyber war

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Europe simulates total cyber war from BBC News | Europe | World Edition A widespread simulated cyber attack is staged on European nations to test their cyber defences and responsiveness. EU to press for ‘right to be forgotten’ online from EUobserver.com – Headline News Submitted by: muzd Posted at: 2010-11-05 13:31:42 See full post and … Read more

Twitter and European Public Intellectuals (by Jon Worth) [and a Euro roundup as usual]

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Public intellectuals on Twitter ? where are the Brits (or even the Europeans)?

from Jon Worth

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“Freedom of speech in Turkey, 1994-2010

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A very good comparative post: Freedom of speech in Turkey, 1994-2010 by istanbulnotes Last week?s release of the 2010 edition of the annual Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index made for more uncomfortable Turkish reading. Turkey was placed in 138th position in a list of 175 countries, down from 99th position in 2002 when … Read more

Wikileaks to publish Pentagon Iraq documents; U.S. Government use Facebook For Surveillance…

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The Original Pirate: See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/41138 Next leak, next week, from Wikileaks? What’s expected: 400,000 US Army docs from Iraq from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Reports are circulating that WikiLeaks will release close to 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War next week. Once again, this would become the … Read more

“The Global Media Monitoring Project Report 2010

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Who Makes the News? The Global Media Monitoring Project Report 2010 from Docuticker Who Makes the News? The Global Media Monitoring Project Report 2010 (PDF) Source: World Association for Christian Communication From press release (PDF): Women are still significantly underrepresented and misrepresented in news media coverage, according to Global Media Monitoring Project research in 108 … Read more

Turkey has no shame: Vimeo censored now… #vimeobannedinturkey #censorshipinturkey #turkey #vimeo

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Turkey Adds Video-Sharing Site Vimeo to List of Blocked Websites

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Twitter has a problem today…

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update: Twitter Explains Security Exploit from Mashable! by Christina Warren Twitter Mouseover Security Flaw Affecting Thousands of Users [WARNING] from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder Twitter has the plague this morning … from Boing Boing by Maggie Koerth-Baker If you’ve noticed some frustrating brands of funkiness going on with Twitter this morning, it’s not just you. … Read more

#iyikidogdunhrantdink – Turkish democrats Commemorate Hrant Dink with a Twitter Campaign

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I don’t think we have enough numbers to make the commemoration of Hrant Dink in his birthday a worldwide Twitter trend but we try… Campaigners’ tweets can be found here #iyikidogdunhrantdink [happy birthday Hrant Dink] Turkey ‘failed to protect’ Dink from Yahoo news The European Court of Human Rights rules that Turkey failed to protect … 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

Can Erol on World Cup- Day 1: Group A: Lack of Quality (#worldcup)

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The World Cup started with the first day games in Group A. Nelson Mandela could not show up for the opening game because of the tragic death of his grand daughter yesterday. Mexico and South Africa started the game with high level of anxiety. Galatasaray player Dos Santos was the first player to miss a … Read more

Turks at Twitter: #Recep Bey, @notredamedesion @ahmethc @cbabdullahgul- Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (9)

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New CHP leader’s addressing of PM Erdoğan as “Recep Bey” became a Twitter phenomena a few days ago (The Istanbulian: What Is Recep Bey?) AKP members responded by setting up a website called Recep Bey (http://www.recepbey.com/) and began striking back. In the mean time, Kılıçdaroğu gained quite a number of fans at Facebook (Turkish opposition … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: “Traditional media’s adoption of social media”; What to do with Facebook privacy and more…

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Traditional media’s adoption of social media from kottke.org by Aaron Cohen Think about the following platforms and when the first traditional media activity/participation occurred in that platform’s history: Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Chatroulette. It was a shorter and shorter period for each platform.* Let’s call this the adoption half-life. It’s a bastardization of … Read more

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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Adobe vs. Apple

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Adobe: Go Screw Yourself Apple from TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid Yesterday, Apple made a change to its iPhone SDK developer agreement that has left many developers furious: it banned ?applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer?. While many other tools may be affect, the most visible target of the … Read more