Glad to host the first CodeforScience event in Turkey.
If you haven't seen yet, checked the new Lipid Structure App at ScienceDirect and Scopus. It's a great example how an "open platform" can create domain specific solutions collaborating with scientific community. These are still first steps for what we are creating for a new scholarly communication and discovery platform...
It seems some geniuses decided to replace the horse and carriages in Buyukada (Princes Islands) with battery powered vehicles... The same way they ruined the whole architecture of the city now they will do it with the Islands. My kids answer to the news was "what the hell, we'll stop going there anymore"
Apparently there is a report that claims that horse and carriages are dangerous for bicycle riders and pedestrians. This is ridiculous....
An interesting dissertation by Amy Mills "Streets of Memory:
The Kuzguncuk Mahalle in Cultural Practice and Imagination
Today's Istanbul is like a cement city, but Kuzguncuk still is a gem. One of the gems of Kuzguncuk was Bakkal Marko. The picture of my father is probably from late 50th where he is sitting behind his lakerda stand.
Gates foundation is funding ViewChange (check some nice music ) which is leveraging linked data and Freebase, Zemanta, OpenCalais, and other open APIs.
Bueda turns your tags into RDF
Reflect gets into SecondLlife
Give to small companies a chance
From Abstracting & Indexing to Tweeting & Indexing?
No one knows where Turkey is heading?
"Potential energy" in financial markets.
It would be very interesting to really know why Michelle Obama missed the opportunity to visit Turkey.
Who knows if she was with President Obama what kind of pictures we would have seen coming from Turkey
The picture on the left is from a gala reception in Istanbul in honor of Obama where Turkish Prime Minister and President took a photo opportunity with ladies who were playing at the reception. .
Here is Turkish President with his wife
Here is the Turkish Prime Minister with his wife
This picture shows 86 years ago Ataturk with his wife
Alon is searching for turkey in Cheburechnaya at Queens where you can enjoy a great Uzbeki cuisine with plenty of kebabs.
Can this be a new mania in Turkey. When my sister sent me an invite to be a friend, I knew that Facebook was getting a viral effect in Turkey. Yes, I told her I am already your brother....
I am not complaining about this craze, because thanks to this craze I got connected to my highschool and college budyy Robert.
Research Trends which is powered by Scopus is a our new bi-monthly newsletter "providing objective, up-to-the-minute insights into scientific trends based on bibliometric analysis."
The first issue has great articles for anyone interested with bibliometric analysis. The most interesting for me was the Country Trends section where they cover Turkey and her research output. (btw if there was a commenting feature in these articles probably we can generate some conversation around them.)
"The increase in research articles across this period [2000-2006] is occurring at an average rate of 17% per annum over the period 2000-2006, as compared with a 3.5% p.a. overall growth in the same period"I think another factor that is helping the research output in Turkey is her population. Turkey which has over 71m people has the youngest population in Europe (second is Ireland) .When I was visiting Turkey this summer one of the things that I noticed was almost in every corner that was a university. This trend is not just in Istanbul but in the southern part of the country too. Unemployment is high among graduates, so sometimes is better to stick around in the university and do some research.
When people ask me what I miss about Turkey , I always answer the place that I used to spend my summers in Istanbul: Princess Islands (Buyuk Ada)
I am flying there now and probably no posting while in holiday.
Turkish military choose to issue its warning for the Islamic rooted government just posting their press release (or ultimatum) on their website, no press conference, no TV announcement. Turkey is going through a turmoil and no one knows how she is going end up: Iran-light or continue on the traditions of Ataturk.
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