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Poland: Creators of “Polish Rapidshare” Arrested
Earlier this month, the Polish police arrested (POL) creators and owners of OdSiebie.com service. The portal, which is currently down, was a clone of Rapidshare, and since its day one in 2007, it was...
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Poland: Anonymous Blogger to Write About a Daily Tabloid
An anonymous journalist who used to work for a Polish daily tabloid called Fakt, owned by Axel Springer AG, started a new blog, BrukowiecStory” (“TabloidStory” in English), in which he wants to write...
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Poland: Blogs Demand Payment for Content
Today, readers of leading Polish blogs might have been surprised to see a new welcome screen on one of their favourite websites: it announced that, beginning Dec. 14, 2009, access to this blog was no...
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Poland: Blogger Prosecuted for Criticizing Local Mayor
Łukasz Kaprowicz, a journalist working for Fakty Mosińsko-Puszczykowskie, a local Polish newspaper, and a long-time author of the Mosina.blox.pl blog, was sued for defamation after he had criticized...
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Poland: Ex-PM Jarosław Kaczyński Starts Blogging
On Feb. 18, Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Poland's national conservative Law and Justice party, started a blog on the popular platform Salon24. His first post is a transcript of one of the speeches he...
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Poland: Best Blogs of 2010 Announced
The sixth edition of the “Blog of the Year” contest is over, and the results have been announced. This year (as in a few previous editions), the whole contest was divided into three stages. The first...
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Poland: Prosecuted Blogger Hopes For a Different Verdict
Łukasz KasprowiczTwo weeks ago, Global Voices reported about a Polish blogger, Łukasz Kasprowicz, who had been sued for criticising a local mayor and, after losing in court, was banned from blogging...
View ArticleCzech Republic: Open Source Initiative to Visualize State Budget
KohoVolit‘s Michal Škop and Centrum Cyfrowe [pl] from Poland announced that the open source application Raw Salad [pl] used to hack the Polish state budget will also be used in the Czech Republic....
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Poland: Open Government Data Camp 2011 and the Future of Open Data
On November 4, 2011, Anna Kuliberda of NetSquared posted a summary of the Open Government Data Camp 2011, which took place in Warsaw, Poland, on October 21-22: On 21-22 of October the capital of Poland...
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Slovakia: Checking Politicians’ Facts With Demagog.sk
Demagog.sk is a Slovakian web project that aims to analyze politicians’ claims based on facts and ensure they are correct and used in the right context. Inspiration for the initiative came from a...
View ArticlePoland: Bloggers React to the Death of Popular TV Show Character
Kominek [pl] summarizes bloggers’ reactions to the death of Hanka Mostowiak [pl], a fictional character of one of the biggest TV hits ever in Poland, a soap opera called “M jak Miłość” (“L for Love”)...
View ArticlePoland: Bloggers reactions to Tomasz Lis’ announcement of “Polish Huffington...
Tomasz Lis, editor-in-chief of one of Poland's biggest weekly magazines, “Wprost”, and a host of a political talk show, announced the upcoming launch of a new journalistic platform in 2012 –...
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Slovakia: Visualising Business Registry Data with Vorsr.sk
Vorsr.sk [sk] is a tool for visual exploration of Slovakia's business registry. It treats the information as one big social network, grabbing the newest data live from the current registry database and...
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