Literati roundup: “IFLA Publishes a Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment…

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IFLA Publishes a Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment

At its 14 August 2015 meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, the IFLA Governing Board endorsed an IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment. The FAIFE Committee oversaw preparation of the Statement and benefitted from consultation with IFLA units and various Internet civil liberties advocacy organisations. 

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The FBI kept files on author Ray Bradbury: “Definitely slanted against the United States”

 Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Michael from Muckrock writes, “The FBI followed Ray Bradbury’s career very closely, in part because an informant warned them that his writing was not enjoyable fantasy, but rather tantamount to psychological warfare.”

Great book covers as animated GIFs

 Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

Wonderful literary GIFs by Javier Jensen of Santiago, Chile.

Chinese Cultural Revolution Sci-Fi Wins Hugo Awards’ Best Novel Prize

 Global Voices Online by John Kennedy

2015 Hugo Awards Best Novel goes to Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Image: Book covers of Liu’s first two work in his trilogy.

Who Won Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters

Wired Top Stories by Amy Wallace

After a group of fans tried to guarantee a whiter, more male slate, most of the big Hugos instead went to “No Winner.”

Exploring the abandoned digital campuses of Second Life universities

 Boing Boing by Laura Hudson

During the late ’00s heyday of Second Life, everyone wanted a piece of the popular virtual world, including colleges and universities who set up their own online campuses to engage students and even teach real classes.

Software and Digital Data in Education

DML Central

For the last two years, a group of colleagues from across the universities of Stirling, Edinburgh and Bristol have been working with me on a seminar series exploring how code acts in education. As the project comes to an end, we have produced a free, open access e-book: “Coding/Learning: software and digital data in education.”

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Yeni @P24Punto24 derlemem: “İleri” web araçları

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“İleri” web araçları

ERKAN SAKA

Yaz biterken dijital alet çantanızı gözden geçirip zenginleştirmeye ne dersiniz?

Bu yazı daha önce hazırladığım Sosyal ağlar ve Timelines ya da güvenlik araçları dizisinin bir parçası. Yazın şu son günlerinde dijital araçların bize sunduğu zenginliğin başka bir boyutuna bakalım dedim. Burada “ileri” kelimesini italik harfler içinde kullanıyorum çünkü bu araçların ileriliği daha çok bizim gibi yazılımcı olmayan sıradan kullanıcılar için. Yine de erişilebilir, kullanılabilir araçlardan bahsediyorum. Bu araçlar gündelik hayatta sürekli kullanacağız araçlar değil ama bir gün işinize yarayabilir. İlk kısım doğrudan web dizaynı ile alakalı. Diğer kısım ise birçok farklı işlevle ilgili araçları kapsıyor.

Devamı burada

şu ana kadar yapılan derlemeler toplu halde şurada bulunabilir. 

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New photo from Facebook August 29, 2015 at 03:30PM

Animasyonlu kitap kapakları. via http://ift.tt/1Iqtmdd via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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A weekend of Heavy Metal Fest in İstanbul begins today…

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So many groups I love to listen to and attend their performance.. All starts up in a few hours. Here are the bands, the fest lasts three days, until Monday night (!)

More info here

 

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Cyberculture agenda: 2015 Pioneer Award Winners… More revelations from the Ashley Madison hack…

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EFF Announces 2015 Pioneer Award Winners: Caspar Bowden, Citizen Lab, Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications, and Kathy Sierra

 EFF.org Updates by Rebecca Jeschke

Ceremony for Honorees on September 24 in San Francisco

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce the distinguished winners of the 2015 Pioneer Awards: the late international privacy expert Caspar Bowden, the human rights and global security researchers at The Citizen Lab, international Internet access champions Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), and digital community advocate Kathy Sierra.

Ashley Madison looks like it was always a big sad scam

Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

Annalee Newitz reports that very few of the female profiles at the hacked site appear to represent real people.

Before hack, Ashley Madison was building an app called ‘What’s Your Wife Worth’

The Next Web by Napier Lopez

I think most people can agree that Ashley Madison is pretty terrible. But if it can be believed, the people behind the adulterous dating website were working on something just as appalling. According to the Daily Dot, leaked emails from the Ashley Madison hack last week show that Avid Life Media, the adultery site’s parent company, was working on a an app called ‘What’s Your Wife Worth.’ around 2013. It’s about as obnoxious as it sound.   Basically, the app would allow you to place a dollar value on women as a rating system. It’s somewhat akin other attractiveness-rating sites, just framed under…

Report: Yep, Ashley Madison is full of Fembots

 The Next Web by Lauren Hockenson

In the wake of the scandal-inducing Ashley Madison data dump, there has been plenty of skepticism regarding the demographics of the site’s 37 million users. The hackers who orchestrated the dump, Impact Team, have accused Ashley Madison of fraud and claimed 90 to 95 percent of female users are robots created by the company. Ashley Madison and its parent company, Avid Life Media, was also sued by an employee in 2013 who claimed her role was to write thousands of fake profiles. Armed with the data from the dump, Gizmodo parsed through user data to find out whether allegations of…

6 Web design mistakes (and how to correct them)

The Next Web by Carrie Cousins

It happens to everyone at some point: You look back on a website design and realize that you made a mistake.

Watch Out, Twitch: YouTube Gaming Just Went Live

 Wired Top Stories by Jake Muncy

Twitch meets a formidable competitor in YouTube Gaming, which works surprisingly well on its first day out.

Your Dreams of Using Nothing But Emoji Are Realized

 Wired Top Stories by Molly McHugh

Mavis Beacon would be ashamed.

Millennials Don’t Trust Tinder to Keep Their Data Secure (Study)

 All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison

Twitter Axes Accountability Projects, Sparing Politicians Embarrassment

 EFF.org Updates by Parker Higgins

Accountability projects that track deleted tweets from politicians and public officials suffered a critical setback this week when Twitter killed their ability to collect that information. This move comes a few months after the service shut down the U.S. version of Politwoops, the best known of these projects, and extends the ban to some 30 other jurisdictions.

IBM’s lost, glorious fabric design

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

It’s a pity that IBM hasn’t made this fabric since 1950 or so, because I would rocka pair of pajamas in this pattern (or hell, a big suit!).

Facebook’s M is a Siri-like personal assistant for Messenger

The Next Web by Natt Garun

Facebook’s Vice President of Messaging Products David Marcus today announced a new service called M. M is designed to be your personal assistant, which you can use to ask for recommendations such as gift ideas or restaurants to visit when you’re traveling.

Twitter is heavily male and white, but it has a plan to change all of that

 The Next Web by Nate Swanner

Twitter has released its diversity numbers, and the company is unsurprisingly skewed toward white males. Overall, Twitter is 66 percent male, and 59 percent white. In tech, the number of males skyrockets to 87 percent, but the percentage of white dips slightly to 56 percent.

The Evolution of the Facebook Algorithm: What it Means for Your Social Strategy

 Social Media Today by Allison Solberg

Remember when we could post on Facebook and our fans would actually see it? Those were the days. Let’s get nostalgic and take a look at some of the major updates.

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New photo from Facebook August 29, 2015 at 01:05PM

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Two British journalists from Vice News detained in Turkey. More glory to Turkey’s repressive regime…

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Two British journalists detained in southeast Turkey

Turkish police have detained two British journalists from Vice News for reporting from the predominantly Kurdish southeast without government accreditation, security sources said on Aug. 28.

 

Most Turks see Erdoğan as culprit in failure of coalition talks: Poll

For more than 57 percent of 29,000 people who voted in an online poll by Poltio, President Erdoğan is responsible for the failure in talks to form a coalition

10 images to mark Erdoğan’s first year as president

Erdoğan has been an ‘unusual president’ since he took the oath exactly one year ago. Here are the most interesting images from his political career so far

Outgoing gov’t initiates major overhaul in military judiciary

The outgoing government of Turkey has initiated a major overhaul in military judiciary, with a decree also signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, changing the posts of 70 military judges and prosecutors.

Analysis: Why Turkey’s AKP failed to make a comeback in polls

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Diligent on election security, HDP eyes 20 pct vote in upcoming early election

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which argues preventing their party from passing the 10 percent threshold needed to get seats in parliament in the upcoming early election is a main motive for the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has ambitiously set 20 percent as their new target

Nov. 1 polls will clear problems created by June 7 elections: Erdoğan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he believed early elections on Nov. 1 will “clear up the problems created by the June 7” parliamentary election

HDP says Tüzel’s refusal to join interim gov’t was ‘his own choice’

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has argued HDP Istanbul deputy Levent Tüzel’s refusal to take part in an interim government was a decision made of his own will based on his original party’s reasoning

President Erdoğan: Your Brother Shouldn’t Have Chosen to Be a Military Man

 Bianet :: English

A deceased specialist sergeant’s sister reacted to the President Erdoğan: “Should our children, brothers die for the sake of your votes that you lost?” Erdoğan responded: “Your brother shouldn’t have chosen to be a specialist sergeant.”

Dissident Turkish actor dismissed from City Theater

Dissident Turkish actor Levent Üzümcü has been dismissed from the Istanbul City Theater over his statements critical of the Justice and Development Party (AKP)

Free Syrian Army commander’s car explodes in southeastern Turkey

A bomb placed in the car of a Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander has detonated in southeastern Turkey, while the commander is being treated for heavy injuries

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