Fairly regularly people ask me how the Caucasus countries are similar and different. For the most part the 3 countries share a lot. But there are some meaningful differences, to me, qualitatively. But one way to look at this is to think about how people raise their children. I don’t have any literature on this,…
Here’s the at-the-time-of-the-protest analysis. And here are some updates from Sunday. Link to full. So 517 people tweeted. The most “networked” of those 517 are: aztwi ilKinHasani muntezir hajiyev eminmilli FuserLimon JamalAliBaku katypearce (that’s me – full disclosure) turkhankarim Khadija0576 And the users who were replied to the most: raufmardiyev muntezir katypearce turkhankarim ruslanazad azer_rammstein…
— Programme summary of Azeri ANS TV “Xabarci” news 1700 gmt 12 Jan 13 BBC Monitoring International Reports – Sunday, January 13, 2013 Presenter Nigar Mahmudova 1. 0010 Headlines. 2. 0100 The Armenian armed forces have fired on Azerbaijani positions in Fuzuli District. No casualties are reported. 3. 0116 In a comment on the death…
Since people are so fond of my first analysis, here’s a new one that is more up-to-date. This is a bit harder to understand because it now includes all the people that have been retweeting, but hey, thought I’d share… Link to full version Who is the most popular on this hashtag? Top 10 Vertices,…
EDIT 5pm Pacific, 5am Baku – Since this has been so popular, I’ve made a more inclusive version here. Thankfully the hashtag #protestbaku caught on and I was able to archive the tweets for analysis. I helped create it about 3 hours before the protest started. So here’s a map of the hashtag (thanks Marc…
Mixed reaction to Azeri leader’s pardon decree BBC Monitoring International Reports – Friday, December 28, 2012 Azerbaijani human rights activists have displayed a mixed reaction to the 26 December pardoning decree of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The president pardoned 87 people, including two prisoners of conscience and 11 political prisoners according to the lists of…
I’ll be giving a talk at Stanford’s Liberation Technology Center in January. Link here Title: Not Free to Be You and Me: Equivocation and Internet Freedom in Azerbaijan Abstract: Azerbaijan has a unique approach to Internet regulation that represents a ‘middle path’ between open access and censorship. Because the Internet is both unpredictable and a…
Lots of attacks on the Freedom House report Azerbaijani Council of State Support to NGOs disagrees with report of Freedom House Azeri-Press News Agency ( Azerbaijan ) – Monday, December 17, 2012 The Council of State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan objected to the inclusion of Azerbaijan into…
A fun new trend in the constant stream of nonsense that is the Azerbaijani government’s Internet policy. (tl;dr the government is setting up new ways to control the Internet without appearing to control the Internet.) Keep those Azerbaijani kids off the Interwebz! Now we’re worried about the kids! Here are some news stories (some copy…
I often have conversations with people about Internet penetration rates. The point I’d like to make is that these statistics are complicated and it is hard to get at the “right” number. That’s why we try to triangulate — look at different sources of data to see if things seem right. We also should always…