İstanbul’s contribution to World Animal Day: “Tombili” cat’s sculpture… Istanbul news roundup…

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Sculpture of Istanbul’s cat phenomenon ‘Tombili’ to be inaugurated on Oct 4

A sculpture created in memory of “Tombili,” the portly cat who became a social media phenomenon after being photographed posing on a sidewalk in Istanbul’s Ziverbey neighborhood, will be inaugurated on Oct. 4 on World Animal Day

Tombili Returns to Its Neighborhood on World Animal Day

Bianet :: English

Cat Tombili’s statue has been erected on October 4 World Animal Day in Kadıköy’s Ziveyrbey neighborhood where it spent its entire life.

 1000 entrepreneurs from 63 countries to meet at Startup Istanbul

Hurriyet Daily News

TOBB head Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu said in a statement on Oct. 5 that Istanbul was well-positioned to become a startup hub for international entrepreneurs.

Exhibition opening attacked in Istanbul’s Tophane for ‘alcohol consumption’

An exhibition opening in Istanbul’s Tophane district has been attacked by angry locals complaining about alcohol consumption

Topkapı Palace risk of collapse ‘the result of years of neglect of historical heritage’

Recent reports on the risk of collapse in one of the pavilions of Topkapı Palace follow decades of neglect of Turkey’s historical heritage, the journalist who broke the story, Ömer Erbil, tells the Hürriyet Daily News. ‘The current administration, as well as previous ones, have never governed Istanbul with the awareness that it is a historical city,’ Erbil says

Culture minister vows to address cracks and fragilities at Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace

Turkish Culture Minister Nabi Avcı visited Istanbul’s historical Topkapı Palace on Oct. 3 after news reports that the popular Ottoman-era tourist site is riddled with dangerous cracks in its treasury room

Caricature House Opens with Caricature Days in Kadıköy

 Bianet :: English

Kadıköy Municipality has completed the Caricature House project and the house is opening its doors with Caricature Days that will begin on September 30, Friday.

Experts probe hole in Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace garden

Authorities at Topkapı Palace in Istanbul are probing a hole three meters in diameter that appeared two weeks ago in the yard of the famous tourist attraction, soon after deep cracks were discovered in the basement of the building’s treasury pavilion

2016 Istanbul Biennial announces participants and projects

The Architect’s Newspaper

The 3^rd Istanbul Design Biennial has announced its participants and project titles. More than 70 projects are being produced for the exhibition entitled …

Programme unveiled for Istanbul Design Biennial 2016 – Dezeen

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Erdoğan blackmailing EU: “Act in Syria [that is fight against Asad], or get ready to accept more refugees… Eurosphere agenda…

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Erdogan tells EU: Act in Syria, or get ready to accept more refugees

EurActiv.com

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday (5 October) urged the EU to train rebels, and to consider a no-fly zone and safe haven area in Syria, during talks to address Europe’s growing migrant crisis.

US, NATO condemn Russia’s violations of Turkish airspace

 EurActiv.com

The United States and NATO denounced Russia on Monday (5 October) for violating Turkish airspace and Ankara threatened to respond, reporting two incursions in two days and raising the prospect of direct confrontation between the former Cold War adversaries.

Nato warns Russia on Syria strikes

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Nato urges Russia to end air strikes “on the Syrian opposition and civilians”, five days after Moscow launched raids to support Syria’s government.

Refugee voices in Turkey: open the borders

 open Democracy News Analysis – by Dogus Simsek

“We don’t want food, water or humanitarian help, we want to cross the border by land. We will cross or die here” say refugees in Turkey appealing for passage to Europe.

Syrian refugees walk of hope to Europe (Sahan Nuhoglu/Demotix)

Turkey’s Erdogan mocks EU over refugees during Brussels trip

 EurActiv.com

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan mocked European Union overtures for help with its migration crisis during a long-awaited visit to Brussels on Monday (5 October) that in the end was partly overshadowed by Russia’s violation of Turkish airspace near Syria.

Sweden immigration: Don’t look back

 FT.com – Analysis

While the nation remains pro-immigrant, officials admit many refugees from Syria and Iraq struggle to fit in

European Commissioners seem to have missed the social aspect of Twitter and use it for one way, bland PR instead

Jon Worth

In Gartner’s hype cycle, users of a technology encounter a trough of disillusionment after the initial peak of inflated expectations. The use of Twitter by the 28 Members of the European Commission (Twitter list here) feels like being in such a deep trough that it’s almost as if this is not even social media at all any more.

VIDEO: Germany ‘expects 1.5m migrants’

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

There are reports that Germany could expect up to 1.5 million refugees and migrants this year, nearly double what the government officially estimates.

China uses Juncker Plan to boost involvement in Europe

EurActiv.com

China could become the largest non-EU contributor to the so-called “Juncker Plan”, the European Commission President’s flagship investment initiative to revive growth in Europe.

 

Rethinking (im)mobilities of Roma in Europe

 open Democracy News Analysis – by Julija Sardelić

Roma are wrongly assumed to have a cultural predilection to move. Most Roma do not migrate, and many of their largest movements have been forced upon them.

A Roma camp is evicted in Bron, France, on 16 April 2015. Serge Mouraret/Demotix. All Rights Reserved.

VIDEO: Hamburg’s solution to migrant housing crisis

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

As the number of migrants entering Germany shows no sign of slowing down, authorities in Hamburg have found a novel approach to providing accommodation.

No, Portuguese voters didn’t back austerity

 Open Europe blog by Vincenzo Scarpetta

No, Portuguese voters didn’t back austerity

Greece Without Illusions

Project Syndicate by Yanis Varoufakis

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras understands that his freshly reelected government is skating on the thin ice of a fiscal program that cannot succeed and a “reform” agenda that his ministers loathe. With the reality of further austerity measures set to test voters’ patience, does Tsipras have any room for maneuver?

Denmark moves to tighten citizenship requirements

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Those wanting to become Danes will face stricter conditions in terms of language skills and financial self-reliance.

EU finance ministers approve Greek ‘to-do’ list

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

EU members finish deciding on dozens of reforms to be implemented by Greece to unlock $96bn loan deal.

Union activists storm Air France office over job cuts

 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Hundreds of protesters storm meeting with bosses on job cuts and attack two managers who flee under police protection.

Record half a million refugees reach Europe this year

 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

A total of 522,124 refugees have been documented as reaching Europe, the International Organization for Migration says.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: twenty years on from Dayton

open Democracy News Analysis – by Mirela Zarichinova

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a paralysed state. Can a way out be found by leaving behind the Dayton Peace Accord?

Sarajevo. Mirela Zarichinova/ All rights reserved.The conference centre, now named “Richard Holbrooke”, seems deserted. We walk along its empty hallways but see no sign of human existence. The only evidence that something of historical significance once happened here are five huge photos hung in the lobby. They depict men in suits gathered around a map, men in suits on red carpet, men in suits giving interviews to a bunch of reporters. Under these photos lies a pile of wedding brochures.

Germany ‘facing 1.5 million migrants’

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Germany will have as many as 1.5 million asylum seekers this year – almost double the previous estimate, according to a leaked report.

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Journalism agenda: “CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack…

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CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack

The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald

Much of the world spent the last 48 hours expressing revulsion at the U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. It was quite clear early on that the perpetrator of the attack was the U.S., and many media outlets and other organizations around the world have been stating this without any difficulties.

Mobile is still a missing piece for local indie online news publishers

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

The LION Summit for local independent online news publishers took place in Chicago on Friday and Saturday. In two days of panels, there was plenty of focus on ad-selling strategies and other revenue-generating ideas, but one thing was largely missing: mobile strategy.

US Media World: “Wag the dog” is not a movie, it’s reality
RT

Strangely enough, missing are the reports coming out Syria andTurkey about the massive wave of dislocation caused by the Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda, some of which were equipped courtesy of US taxpayers and facilitated by strategic choices made by ..

Which UK newspapers are winning on Twitter?

Sysomos Blog by Lance Concannon

Britain’s newspapers have navigated through the social media era with mixed success and in many ways the technology has transformed our country’s news-media industry. In this blog post we’ve analysed the Twitter followers of all the leading national newspapers to see if we can learn anything interesting.

The first thing we did was compare conventional circulation figures with Twitter follower counts. It’s obvious that there’s no correlation between the two, and the three lowest circulation papers also happen to have the most followers.

Mexico: No country for journalists

 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

We explore Mexico’s ‘red lines’ and look at why the Latin American country is one of the deadliest for reporters.

The Sun trials – Thursday 1st October 2015

open Democracy News Analysis – by Martin Hickman

This week and next, openDemocracy will be bringing daily coverage of the trial of Sun journalists charged with aiding and abetting misconduct in public office by paying a police officer for information. Here is Thursday’s report.

Beware the bots: Some best practices to combat the fraudulent traffic industry

Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

The hubbub in the advertising industry has of late been mostly focused on the rise of adblockers. Just as alarming is the scale of fake web traffic schemes. About 11 percent of display advertising impressions are fraudulent, and globally, advertisers will lose about $6.3 billion this year due to this fraudulent bot traffic, according to a 2014 study conducted by the security firm White Ops and theAssociation of National Advertisers. And publishers who don’t draw much fraudulent bot traffic are losing out to those who do, as ad dollars are inaccurately allocated.

The Sun trials – Tuesday 29th September 2015

 open Democracy News Analysis – by Martin Hickman

This week and next, openDemocracy will be bringing daily coverage of the trial of Sun journalists charged with aiding and abetting misconduct in public office by paying a police officer for information. Here is Tuesday’s report.

Rebekah Brooks was a “nightmare” newspaper editor who would unleash foul-mouthed volleys at her executives, the Sun’s news chief told a court today.

Chris Pharo, Assistant Editor (News), told the Old Bailey that the Sun was a harsh workplace where complaints were not tolerated.

Structured Journalism and Network Mapping Hackathon

Burak Arikan

Graph Commons organized a two-day hackathon on structured journalism and network mapping at the Chamber of Architects in Istanbul. Participants created semantic network models on topics in the field of human rights, civil society, and journalism. They created network maps and built data tools to compile relatively big data from available sources and turn them into graph databases in order to map and analyze the complex issues at hand.

Blocking ads can add up to real money for users on mobile — and real losses for publishers

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Justin Ellis

Two reminders on Thursday that publishers face an daunting battle against ad blocking technology. First, The New York Times released its analysis of homepage loading speeds for the top 50 mobile news sites, including CNN, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Gawker, BuzzFeed, Elite Daily, and the Times itself.

Snapchat wants to slip a little news into teens’ social smartphone time

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

This month, as millions of Muslims made the annual Hajj to Mecca, Snapchat set up a Live Story around the pilgrimage. Using a geofence that located users in Mecca and the surrounding areas in Saudi Arabia, Snapchat let users submit photos or short videos that its editors then curated into a story it showcased to its users around the world.

Most millennials are willing to pay for content, but not so much for news

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

We can’t seem to stop talking about millennials, that elusive age of young people — roughly mid-teens to early 30s — whose numbers have surpassed the baby boomer generation. Recent research suggests, unsurprisingly, that millennials are not a “monolithic group” when it comes to news consumption habits, but in fact fall into several distinct categories.

Space, the Final Journalism Frontier

Slate Articles by Fergus Pitt

When Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket exploded over Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 28, its entire payload of supplies to the International Space Station was destroyed. Also lost were the eight tiny satellites owned by Planet Labs—a self-styled agile space company with ambitions to provide a high-resolution picture of the entire planet every day for at least the next 20 years.

How Esquire built Esquire Classic, a new standalone digital archive

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Esquire’s first issue was published in the autumn of 1933 featuring a dispatch from Cuba by Ernest Hemingway. That story was the first of Hemingway’s many contributions to Esquire: He ultimately wrote 26 pieces for the magazine during the 1930s, including one of his most well-known stories, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”

Guess what: Millennials aren’t all the same when it comes to news consumption

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

Millennials tend to get lumped into a big group when it comes to hand-wringing about their news consumption habits. But (shocker) defining the entire group of people born between 1980 and 1998 as a “monolithic group that doesn’t change with age and different circumstances” doesn’t really make sense, according to a new report from the Media Insight Project.

How Gigaom died and then came back to life again, kind of

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

On a Monday night in March, Gigaom, the site where I’d worked for four years, abruptly shut down. In a hastily scheduled conference call, the company’s 80-plus employees were told that we’d run out of money and would cease publishing immediately. Our long-planned conference Structure Data, which was just nine days away, was canceled.

The San Francisco Chronicle looks to crowdfunding, incubators, and offline events to attract new readers

Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

The Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle sits in a hub of tech and innovation. But the paper has had to survive losses and layoffs. In 2013 it set up a two-site paywall system, but backtracked a few months later. SFGate.com, which firstlaunched in 1994, is free, has a “buzzier” voice, and shares withSFChronicle.com breaking news coverage. SFChronicle.com, created two years ago, has a hard paywall at the moment and is the primary destination for investigations, data visualizations, enterprise coverage, and Chronicle columnists. Last year, the Chronicle launched a revamped membership programin an effort to retain subscribers.

BuzzFeed is planning to enter the local news game in the U.K.

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Justin Ellis

It’s not unusual to see BuzzFeed on a hiring spree, especially since the company seems to be capable of raising limitless amounts of money lately.

But the newest job postings show that BuzzFeed wants to test the waters of local news coverage, at least in the United Kingdom. The company is hiring 14 new positions, four that will go to “regional beat reporters.” From the job description:

What you need to know: How six publishers digest the news for readers

Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

Every day, readers are faced with a firehose of news online. News organizations realize this, and they’re trying a bunch of different ways to make the news more manageable — creating chatty summaries of their own stories or publishing extra mobile-friendly content like short Q&As.

Facebook rolls out Signal, a social newsgathering tool for journalists

Mashable! by Jason Abbruzzese

As everyone in Silicon Valley looks to cozy up to the media, Facebook has released new tools to help journalists find, organize and publish content found on its extensive social network.

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Cyberculture agenda: “Berkman Center Launches New Internet Data Dashboard

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Berkman Center Launches New Internet Data Dashboard

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Dashboard debuts at World Economic Forum meeting in Geneva

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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce the launch of the Internet Monitor dashboard, a freely accessible tool that aims to improve information for policymakers, researchers, advocates, and user communities working to shape the future of the Internet by helping them understand trends in Internet health and activity through data analysis and visualization.

Facebook will provide internet in Africa from space starting in 2016

The Next Web by Owen Williams

Facebook initially planned to connect the world by producing its own satellites, but it might be tacking a different tack now. According to The Telegraph, a new agreement between Facebook and Eutelsat due to start in late 2016 will deliver free internet in Africa via an existing satellite.

Twitter names Jack Dorsey as permanent CEO

The Next Web by Owen Williams

Twitter has finally announced it’s full time CEO. Surprise! It’s Jack Dorsey. Dorsey, who is one of Twitter’s co-founders returned to the company as interim chief after Dick Costolo stepped down from the role in June. The move comes after months of rumors that Dorsey would stay on as CEO of both Twitter and Square.

Hacking Wireless Printers With Phones on Drones

Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter

Researchers have demonstrated how attackers using a drone plus a mobile phone could intercept documents sent to a Wi-Fi printer.

A case of mistaken Facebook identity leads to a marriage IRL

Mashable! by Andrea Romano

It’s a match made in Facebook heaven.

New Report Shows How Many Teens are Flirting Online

 Social Media Today by Pete Schauer

Parents of teenagers cringe when they think about their kids’ online safety, especially as new websites and social channels like Yik Yak sprout up. The days of kids and teens playing outside and taking a break from technology are over, especially when you consider the fact that an astonishing 53% of kids get cell phones when they’re just six years old, according to a study by vouchercloud. The fact that parents are buying their kids cell phones that early is a huge cause for concern in itself, but what’s more important is the data that says that kids are using their phones for another reason: Flirting.

Your Audience Rules – How Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Really Works

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

This Might Be the First Craigslist Ad to Win a Pulitzer

Wired Top Stories by Charley Locke

Rain, a ballgown, and the world’s most heartbreaking Missed Connection from 1972.

Censorship vs. Activism on Social Media

 All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison

Pirate Bay Founder Finally Free After Three Years

 TorrentFreak

Gottfrid Svartholm, also known as Anakata, was a founding member of The Pirate Bay and played a key role during the site’s early years.

He has spent the last three years in prisons in Sweden and Denmark, for a variety of offenses. Last month his prison time in Denmark ended and after serving a final month in Sweden he is now a free man.

At this time Gottfrid and his family prefer not to make any public statements, which is understandable considering all that’s happened, but his mother just confirmed the good news.

All Good Logos Are Modernist Logos, Really

Wired Top Stories by Margaret Rhodes

A new book of 6,000 different logos shows that in graphic design, Modernism is still alive.

Hackers Release Data of 2.3 Million Patreon Users

Newsweek Columnists: Christopher Dickey by Seung Lee

The popular crowdfunding website Patreon became the latest casualty in a string of large-scale data breaches, as hackers released 2.3 million users’ personal information on Thursday.

Included in the data dump: 15 gigabytes worth of usernames, email addresses and shipping addresses, among other information. The hackers released the data shortly after Patreon CEO Jack Conte announced Wednesday night that there had been an unauthorized access into the company’s database and apologized for the breach.

Conte wrote on Patreon’s company blog that no credit-card numbers, security-card numbers or tax forms were compromised, as they are not stored on Patreon’s servers.

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