Deniz Ergürel: Öldüğümüzde sosyal medya ve e-mail hesaplarımıza ne olacak?
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Öldüğümüzde sosyal medya ve e-mail hesaplarımıza ne olacak? from Deniz Ergürel – Medya Blogum by Deniz Ergürel Dünyanın en yaygın sosyal medya ağı olan Facebook’ta 5 milyondan fazla hesabın vefat etmiş kişilere ait olduğu...
Melek Çetin (@MelekCetin): Kirby Ferguson ile Orijinalinden İyi Olan Cover’lar
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Kirby Ferguson ile Orijinalinden İyi Olan Cover’lar Bilginin gem vurulamaz şekilde ‘ayağa düştüğü’ ve yüce yaratıcılar piyasasının telif hakkı, fikri mülkiyet anlaşmalarında rotadan çıkıp işi SOPA’ya , ACTA’ya dek vard
Dick Wellstood: neglected master of stride and beyond
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As regulars here will know, I occasionally take a break from light-hearted political banter and introduce the serious matter of jazz. It’s particularly gratifying when one of my jazz posts elicits a response from someone with an intimate k...
Dick Wellstood: neglected master of stride and beyond
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As regulars here will know, I occasionally take a break from light-hearted political banter and introduce the serious matter of jazz. It’s particularly gratifying when one of my jazz posts elicits a response from someone with an intimate k...
Six nations rugby
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Phew! It’s over. As Peter Jackson put it on the tournament’s official website, ‘After a grand total of 4,387 passes, 2,965 tackles, 582 penalties, 336 lines-out, 128 scrums, 46 tries and 12 yellow cards, the six-week extravaganza bo...
Regardez la ces Chinoiseries
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The startling thing about mainland China, is that they actually think their knock-offs are impercetable.I recall seeing an advertisement about a $50 phone with a six-core processor when I was visiting my family members in China.I rolled my eyes.
How EUROPOL contributes to the threat from terrorism
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Europol's website brags about the arrests of claimed Anonymous hactivists in Spain. While the theft and exposure of personal information should be condemned, the expansion of Europol's activities to Anonymous hactivists that have not caused harm to p...
Europol against Anonymous and the real security of Europe
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Europol's website brags about the arrests of claimed Anonymous hactivists in Spain. While the theft and exposure of personal information should be condemned, the expansion of Europol's activities to Anonymous hactivists that have not caused harm to p...
Cem Pelister (@cempelister): EVRİMİN SON KURBANI TARAFTAR
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EVRİMİN SON KURBANI TARAFTAR Yazın son demlerinde takvimler 18 Ağustos’u gösterirken futbola susamış taraftarların birçoğu Fi-Yapı İnönü Stadyumunda, küskünlerde Televizyon başında yerlerini aldı ve Alania Vladikavkaz maçıyla b...
Labour members should support the Vita Cortex protest
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While St. Patrick’s Day may be a time of celebration it also offers an opportunity to highlight a factory sit-in taking place in the Republic of Ireland that is now just over three months old. It is a sorry story of good people being denied redunda...
Multicultural London Liberal Democrats
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The selection by Hackney Liberal Democrats of Pauline Pearce to be their candidate in the forthcoming by-election in Hackney Central is symbolic of the way London Liberal Democrats have transformed themselves in recent years to be an inclusive party...
Moldova finally gets a president
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GOOD news is scarce in tiny, poor Moldova. But yesterday the parliament finally managed to elect a president, ending three years of political gridlock that damaged the credibility of the pro-European government and exasperated Moldovans and the count...
From 1952, to 1992 to 2012: Europe 4212?
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The 264-319 rejection of a 1950 proposal for a European Defense Community by the French National Assembly on 30 August 1954 brought down with it a 1952 proposal for a European Political Community. A second opportunity for political union was missed...
Happy St Patrick’s Day
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One of the major questions thrown up during Refounding Labour was how do political parties retain a sense of relevance to diverse communities in the modern world. With traditional voter allegiances less secure and class based voting on the wain, poli...
ABY: Anyone But York for Archbishop of Canterbury
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No sooner did the Archbishop of Canterbury announce that he was retiring than speculation started on who would replace him. Everyone's talking about John Sentamu being the obvious successor – but he is the wrong person for Lambeth Palace. Let m...
100-year gilts and the madness of (crowds of) actuaries
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Time like an ever-rolling streamBears all its bonds awayYep, even the 100-year UK government bond which has been floated as a slice of light entertainment this week would eventually be redeemed,...
Brussels blog round up for 10-16 March 2012: Concern over the Ukraine, Sarkozy gets tough on Schengen, and how big is Greece’s bailout?
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Chris Gilson and Julian Kirchherr take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU Centre How can the democratic deficit of the European Union be tackled? The New Federalist calls for the direct election of the European Commission’s presiden...
Schools' failure to teach pupils to read is tantamount to child abuse
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Here is the latest propaganda bulletin from the Commissariat for Education, Ofsted Branch: the reading skills of junior school pupils is to be improved. The Commissar himself, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said, “One in five primary schoolchildren are not r...
The Economist sticks up for Sarkozy
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The Economist is the closest thing interpreters have to a textbook. It’s required reading for us if...
Welche Befugnisse hat die EU-Kommission?
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Die EU-Kommission arbeitet als eine übernationale Einrichtung aller Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union. Sie nimmt Aufgaben der Exekutive und Legislative für die Gemeinschaft der europäischen Mitgliedsstaaten wahr. Die Mitglieder der Kommissio...
Germany Overcomes Its Reluctance to Lead
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With news that Angela Merkel is pressing her finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, to assume the chairmanship of the Eurogroup, as the collective gathering of 17 Eurozone finance ministers is known, it is apparent that Germany is overcoming any reluc...
Sorry, stoners – the war on drugs is a necessary evil that's here to stay
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We’re losing the war on drugs, so let’s give up. That seemed to be the conclusion of this week’s high profile debate on illegal narcotics hosted by Intelligence Squared in London. The consensus among liberalisers was that if we legalise drugs t...
EU suspends regional aid to model IMF shock treatment pupil Hungary: European Left response
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EU is ‘victimising’ the Hungarian people and making an ‘example’ of them, says European Left. More...
