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• Day 1 in Bucharest for #wbf2009, Blogs and Citizen Journalism

  
  A BCer in Toronto — Authority: 508
  (Note: This entry was written Tuesday night; WiFi not cooperating at the hotel again) With the opening political and celebrity remarks out of the way at the first World Blogging Forum in Bucharest, Romania, the first panel of the day was up and the topic was Blogs and Citizen Journalism, and the influence of blogs ...
  17 hours ago

• Yahoo Lands on China’s ‘Vulgar Content’ List

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 563
  The Wall Street Journal reports on the latest list of “vulgar” websites released by the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center, which included a Yahoo ! site: The list referred to user-generated content on a section of Yahoo China’s Web site called “ Yahoo Space,” which is not ...
  1 day ago

• Chinese Netizens Leap Great Firewall of China to Mark Berlin Wall’s 20th

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 563
  As CDT reported two weeks ago , Chinese netizens have taken over a website dedicated to commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall in order to blast Internet censorship in their country. Today, on the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall ’s fall, Vancouver Sun and other English media are covering the story: ...
  1 day ago

• Internet Censorship, the Great Firewall of China

  
  Wael Isa — Authority: 145
  With the arrival of the 2008 Olympic Games to Beijing, it seems that this would be an appropriate time to focus on The Great Firewall of China, or the Golden Shield Project (as it is officially known). The Golden Shield is a censorship and surveillance program run by China’s Ministry of Public Service. While the ...
  3 days ago

• Video: Overview of World Censorship on the Web

  
  Visual Insights — Authority: 127
  From Denny: This video zips along at a fast pace, full of diagrams, so you may need to watch it twice. :) Quite an eye-opener if you havent seen this. Pass it forward to your friends so they realize just how much freedom we have in America to enjoy the internet. Amazing how little access some countries ...
  4 days ago

• Video: Overview of World Censorship on the Web

  
  The Soul Calendar — Authority: 537
  From Denny: This video zips along at a fast pace, full of diagrams, so you may need to watch it twice. :) Quite an eye-opener if you havent seen this. Pass it forward to your friends so they realize just how much freedom we have in America to enjoy the internet. Amazing how little access some countries ...
  5 days ago

• Web filtering internationally, part 1: China

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 514
  This week on Security Levity ... how China views Web filtering . It should be no surprise that the Chinese government is sensitive about certain forms of speech. We in the West may not like it, but... read more
  1 week ago

• Measures to prevent the spread of violent material on the Net across the EU?

  
  Assorted Materials: Johnny Ryan — Authority: 91
  The IIEA and the European Commission have just signed a contract to begin a study on non-legislative measures that might prevent the spread of violent radical content on the Internet. Our job is to examine the measures currently in practice, determine whether any are appropriate and functional, and whether these would ...
  1 week ago

• Mixed reviews for Internet censorship

  
  The Toronto Observer — Authority: 546
  East Yorkers have mixed feelings about a provincial bill that would censor the Internet in public schools and libraries. Progressive Conservative MPP Gerry Martiniuk’s Bill 202 proposes that Ontario public schools and libraries install filtering systems on their computers to block sexually explicit material. The ...
  1 week ago

• “An Expectation Of Unlimited Internet Access During A Pandemic Is Not Realistic”

  
  American Blog — Authority: 132
  Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY The talk of WhatToDo is years old, and the predicted problems are an expected eventuality in a time of severe pandemic-related crisis, but it’s still a shattering idea to think that you could be isolated in your home, during a thousands-dying-a-day flu pandemic, and you might not be ...
  1 week ago

• The Chamber of Commerce is not and should not be immune to political satire

  
  Blogging Censorship — Authority: 110
  On Monday, October 19th, the Yes Men , a group of artist/political activists, set up a mock website that looked like the Chamber of Commerce’s, and held a mock press conference where they announced that the Chamber was shifting its opposition to serious efforts to address global warming. Major news sources were ...
  1 week ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  YOUR NEW REALITY — Authority: 474
  "An Expectation Of Unlimited Internet Access During A Pandemic Is Not Realistic" The talk of WhatToDo is years old, and the predicted problems are an expected eventuality in a time of severe pandemic-related crisis, but its still a shattering idea to think that you could be isolated in your home, during a ...
  1 week ago

• Is Obama Killing The Internet, as Swine Flu Killing Thousands

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 132
  The SEC and Department of Homeland Security are saying we need a web backup plan in the event the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic forces people to stay in their homes to use computers even more than usual for work or play. Homeland Security Department accused the GAO of having unrealistic expectations of how the Internet ...
  2 weeks ago

• China’s Facebook Few — 14,000 and Falling

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 563
  The Wall Street Journal reports on the declining number of active Facebook users in China, due both to the company’s decision not to aggressively pursue the China market and the government’s block of the site: Then, to the chagrin of both expatriate and Chinese users (the number of which appeared for a time to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Huh? Googles Censoring China?

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 716
  The controversy between China and Google Book Search over copyright infringement just keeps getting richer. When the Chinese Written Works Copyright Society first began complaining that Google Book Search had copied 17,000 books without permission from the authors, we were tickled to note how seriously the Chinese ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chinese Twitterers: “Mr. Hu Jintao, Tear Down the Great Firewall!”

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 563
  To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, KulturProjekte Berlin set up a virtual “ Berlin Twitter Wall ” where individuals could post their thoughts on the occasion through use of a Twitter hashtag #FOTW. The site’s introduction further invites participants to “let us know which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Feds gone haywire. What else is new..?

  
  Conservative Libertarian Outpost — Authority: 501
  Prosecutorial misconduct is something that most people hold to be immeasurably immoral. Other than Prosecutors, that is. Oh sure, they will all line up in well spaced rows reminiscent of a regiment of soldiers condemning that sort of behavior. Yet they have their way of looking at what constitutes said act, or acts. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Economics of peer-to-peer systems

  
  Light Blue Touchpaper — Authority: 403
  A new paper, Olson’s Paradox Revisited: An Empirical Analysis of File-Sharing Behaviour in P2P Communities , finds a positive correlation between the size of a BitTorrent file-sharing community and the amount of content shared, despite a reduced individual propensity to share in larger groups, and deduces from this ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Source: news about digital libraries and library innovations from around the web

  
  LibraryTechNZ — Authority: 110
  Introducing The Source Adult digital media literacy needs (Note: PDF) From the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) website This qualitative research report focuses on non-use and limited use of internet and mobile phones by adult Australians. It provides an understanding of explaining ...
  3 weeks ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  IZO — Authority: 442
  Anatoli Ulyanovs Ukrainian art website Proza (http://proza.com.ua) has been shut down by its US host for displaying "child pornography". Ulyanov [who has waged a media war against recent Ukrainian anti-pornography legislation] claims the shut-down resulted from a tip-off from the...
  4 weeks ago

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