Tomorrow, on March 22nd 2007 podcasters will send a message to the music industry. The goal is to make the indie group Black Lab to #1 on the iTunes list.
All you need to do is to spend couple minutes of your time and $0.99 to buy the Black Lab song “Mine Again” using the image link above. To learn more about this social movement check this page out.
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The Wall Street Journal Online invited Robert Hoffman, an Oracle Corp. executive who heads a tech-lobbying group that includes Microsoft, Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., to debate the issue with outsourcing critic and author Ron Hira, an engineer and a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Today I learned from Turkish blogs that YouTube is accessible from Turkey again. I am glad that a bad decision is reversed but I do not think this is going to make things any better. There has been a lot of negative coverage of the news all over the blogs and I think the damage is done. The lift of the ban did not cause as much discussion as the ban itself as expected. Here is the AP story and Techdirt’s take on the issue. There is also the opinion of The 463 that I was able to find.
An interesting question that came to my attention lately is who removed the videos first: YouTube or the creator of the video. As most people I thought it was YouTube who immediately removed the clip but turns out that the clip was removed by the uploader not YouTube.
I also learned this morning from a comment on my blog in Turkish that someone Turkish created a video in response to the offending one. I think it is a good one among all those stupid and possibly equally offending responses from Turkish people.
So, the ban is gone but the impression that Turkey is a country that restricts free expression remains.
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I am sure most of you heard the news by now since it is even picked up by Techcrunch and the discussion is on the front page of Techmeme as of now with lots of related discussions including popular blogs like Mashable, IP Democracy and many more.
It makes me really sad that my country is taking an action that supports censorship and aligns herself with the likes of China and Iran when it comes to trying to block internet.
I read (in a Turkish source) that the same court ruled the ban said the ban may be lifted if YouTube removes the offending clips from the website. What is funny to me is that YouTube had removed the clips before the ban has started. So, I am not sure where this leaves the decision. My guess is that the ban will be lifted in a couple of days. But the damage is done and Turkey’s action is took its place in the history of attempted censorship.
To be fair, Turkey is not the only country who is struggling with the new legislative demands of the Internet. As I read in IP Democracy’s post, France is also taking action for making a large part of video-based citizen journalism illegal. Moreover, less than a week ago US Justice Department targeted image sharing sites in their quest to be able to increase their Internet surveillance.
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It’s been a long time in the making but Insomnia Radio Turkey is live now. I have been an avid listener of Insomnia Radio Podcast and it feels great to be a part of that big family.
In the show, I will be playing music from independent Turkish artists. I will try to find them wherever they are and feature the songs that I like the most.
I think this is going to be a very niche show among the many great Insomnia Radio family of shows.
If you are interested in hearing even more different music give a listen to IR Turkey. I will do my best to find the best independent music from Turkey and bring it to you.
The only thing I ask from you is to let the bands know that you heard them on IR Turkey. This is very important because there are not any podcasts in Turkey that feature independent artists as Insomnia Radio and many other podcasts in the US do.
So, without further ado, here is how you can get to Insomnia Radio Turkey:
Website: English Version | Turkish Version
RSS Feeds: English Version | Turkish Version
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