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Erkan’s latest media appearance: RTVE’s Cámara Abierta 2.0
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Cámara Abierta 2.0: Facebook, Estambul 2.0, En tu ciudad… (16/03/10) My part begins at 8.30 min…. The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, S.A. (Spanish Radio and Television Corporation) or Corporación Radiotelevisión Espa...
the First International Newroz Festival in Istanbul (#istanbul2010)
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First International Newroz Festival in Istanbul is produced by Gola Culture, Arts and Ecology Association is an NGO which supports the development of participatory and pluralistic societies and organizes cultural and artistic activities in order t...
Erkan’s field diary: Top posts of the week and month
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(The sun today during the spring equinox. Happy Spring Equinox Day! Image courtesy of SOHO — ESA/NASA.) VIA Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-03-21 1- After Barcelona, Turkish Airlines gets Manchester United 2- Recep İvedik 3 on February...
Erdoğan switches to nationalist mood again
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This is from last week. PM Erdoğan could make to the covers of four most best selling weekly satire magazines after his attack on columnists… The last time he was continuously reacting in a nationalist tone I remember was the pre-municipa...
While President Gül gets Chatham Prize, Genocide Resolutions on the agenda…
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Roundup continues on genocide bills and Turkey’s other foreign policy related issues… President Gül Named Chatham House Prize 2010 Winner Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey, has been voted the winner of the Chatham House Prize 2010. Thi...
“48 hours in Istanbul
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Istanbul By Simon Akam ISTANBUL (Reuters Life!) – Turkey’s largest city is a 2010 European Capital of Culture filled with the treasures of a glorious past from the Roman and Ottoman empires, while straddli...
Ian McEwan and the anthropologists
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Ian McEwan, Jingpo villagers, and the anthropologist from Culture Matters by Third Tone Devil In Ian McEwan’s new novel, Solar, an anthropologist of science named Nancy Temple causes the downfall of the hero, Michael Beard, a Nobel laurate phys...
YouTube vs. Viacom
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YouTube: Viacom secretly posted its videos even as they sued us for not taking down Viacom videos from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow In a scorching post on the company’s blog, YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine accuses Viacom of going to g...
“Breathtaking photos of Europe”
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the Open Video Alliance campaign on Wikipedia starts
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the Open Video Alliance states that the Alliance launches an important project:” a mass campaign to bring video to Wikipedia. Moving images can communicate ideas in ways that text can’t. We think this is the next step in Wikipedia’s evo...
A video: The Future of Publishing
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This video was prepared by the UK branch of Dorling Kindersley Books. Originally meant solely for a DK sales conference, the video was such a hit internally that it is now being shared externally. We hope you enjoy it (and make sure you watch it u...
Google thinks Erkan’s Field Diary has “adult material”
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http://www.zacharyzezima.com VIA Zachary Zezima This week’s issue in Erkan’s life maybe this message from Google Adsense service which is disabled at the moment: Hello, While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently di...
Another deplorable statement from PM Erdoğan: Deporting Armeanians…
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PM Erdoğan wanted to state that Turkey is indeed tolerant and lets many Armenian citizens (I usually heard 50,000 but now 100,000 is uttered) work in Turkey “illegally”. However what he meant in his own way turns out to be a scandal that...
PEW report: The economics of online news
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The economics of online news Overview Editor’s note: These are excerpts from material contributed by the Pew Internet Project to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism “State of the News Media 2010” report. Read the...
Roundup: “The decline of Europe’s social democratic parties” and more…
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MAIN FOCUS: EU may help Athens | 17/03/2010 from euro|topics The financial ministers of the Eurozone countries have not as it turns out presented a concrete bailout plan for Greece, but merely agreed at the beginning of the week on &#...
A video: Story of Stuff; How Things Work, About Stuff
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http://www.storyofstuff.com/ Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work, About Stuff From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. T...
Roundup: digital (post)humanist, neo-liberalism’s appeal as a liberation movement, democracy, e-currency systems, neurocapitalism…
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acting as the digital (post)humanist from digital digs by Alex Reid I’m back on readings for my graduate course on Digital Research and Pedagogy: this week, Brian Massumi’s Parables for the Virtual. Massumi’s text stirs mixed re...
After Barcelona, Turkish Airlines gets Manchester United
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Turkish delight for Manchester United WebWire (press release) - 9 hours ago Turkish Airlines, Europe’s fourth-largest Airline will transport the Manchester United team and officials on their travels for Champions League matches and&#...
We have another ban: No “insemination trips
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Turkey ban on insemination trips from BBC News | Europe | World Edition A new law in Turkey makes it a criminal offence for a woman to go abroad and get pregnant via artificial insemination. LGBT Association Sues State Minister from B...
EU enlargement chief was in town…
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EU enlargement chief presses Turkey on Cyprus, Armenia (AFP via Yahoo! News) Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt (C) and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu (R) talk to the media after their meeting in Saariselka Inari, in the Finnish Lapland...
