Sesawe offers tools to circumvent web censorship

I had stopped shortly in a blogger/new media training session last Friday, that focused on Eurasian bloggers and new media people. You can check their work here:

Eurasian Stories | Digital Stories from Eurasia

and videos made in the workshop:
http://eurasianstories.blip.tv/

I have met Eric who is in charge of a website called Sesawe. This site offers great tools and recommendations to circumvent web censorship. In their site:

Where sesawe matters:

Yemen	Egypt	Syria	Cambodia	Kyrgyzstan	Moldova
France	North Korea	Kazakhstan	Morocco	Sri Lanka	China
Saudia Arabia	Ethiopia	Turkey	Belarus	Thailand	Sudan

CHECK OUT MORE AT Sesawe

My brief notes from Eric’s speech:

Europe has a religious symbol crisis, too

A crucifix hangs on a wall map of Europe in a school classroom in Rome November 3, 2009. The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Italian schools should remove crucifixes from classroom walls, saying their presence could disturb children who were not Christians.The decision is likely to provoke a controversy in Italy, which is deeply attached to its Roman Catholic roots.REUTERS/Tony Gentile

Dissecting Europe’s crucifix conflict

from cafebabel.com by euro topics

On 3 November the European court of human rights ruled that crucifixes in classrooms violate the religious freedom of schoolchildren. Representatives from politics and the church roundly condemn the judgement, while many media welcome the decision. The Iberian, Maltese and Italian press react

Erkan is attending World Blogging Forum

I am honored to be invited as a guest speaker to World Blogging Forum that will take place in Bucharest, Romania (9-12 November 2009). I am excited to meet some of the great bloggers. In fact, I feel like an amateur among them but that’s all right. I will happy to meet them. Mihaela is doing a great job in organizational matters. If only I can drag my ass to the consulate and get my visa, I will be flying next week to Bucharest… I will do it, I know!

A little warning to my readers

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I am experimenting with a new ad system which I will categorize under “sponsored posts”. In order to finance a little bit of ever increasing expenses… I hope you don’t mind. I don’t think this will make a change at all in my overall blogging style…

Updates in Erkan’s Field Diary

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Warning! Erkan is working on a new design

last update: 01 October 2009

post-service settlement -Part III

Since I had become a free man again, one of the most productive things I am working on is the new design. I am just too happy with WordPress and the new theme. All goodies like ratings, or statistics, or taggins are other benefits. It seems that it works smoothly. I still have some transfer work to do but that’s all right. The static pages are also good. I will try to give news in blog posts whenever there are updates in Pages. So far, the blog has these pages:

News roundups end today

As of today, I end up collecting news links. I have 10 days before the Service begins and I am overwhelmed with other things to do. It was a pleasure for me but that roundup service cannot be done any more. I have still some saved stuff, I will offer them in these days. And I will also offer you the list of all the sites and blogs I followed for the news in parts…

Here comes the party… Erkan’s Field Diary presents the 750,000th Visit Party!

 

“Trial of Pirate Bay website opens…

URL	http://thepiratebay.org/

Pirate Bay in wikipedia…

Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm (L) and Peter Sunde arrive for their trial at Stockholm’s city court February 16, 2009. Pirate Bay co-founders Svartholm, Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom were charged by a Swedish prosecutor with conspiracy to break copyright law and being an accessory. (Bertil Ericson/Scanpix Sweden

Trial of Pirate Bay website opens in Stockholm

The most notorious and defiant individuals in the world of online file sharing, charged with facilitating copyright infringement, have entered not guilty pleas

Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm: Day 1

By Cory Doctorow on Copyfight

Wired’s Threat Level blog has coverage from the first day of the trial of the creators of the Pirate Bay, the huge torrent-tracker based in Stockholm. It’s a sold out event, with scalpers selling tickets (!) outside the court.

Stormy waters

How The Pirate Bay sailed into file-sharing infamy

A report on Turkish bloggers

I stumbled upon a report that outlines the profile of Turkish bloggers. At this level, it is all about statistics and unfortunately it is in Turkish. But I guess graphs and tables might give you an idea?… It depends on a survey that took place between 1 December 2008- 15 January 2009. 717 bloggers attended the survey…