links for 2006-01-25

• Study: Google #1 in China
  "Despite trailing Chinese traffic leader Baidu, Google is rated the best search engine in China, according to new research from Keynote Systems."
  (tags: china google search chineseinternetresearch)
• Despite competition, the list of stars is long - Business - International Herald Tribune
  "Technology will dominate Davos as well, not least in the proliferation of Web logs, including one by The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, which will zealously document the goings on."
  (tags: davos wef blogs)
• Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Googling round Chinese walls
  "It is easy to see why Google is doing this. This does not alter the fact that, sadly and in a significant way, it is not the same company today that it was yesterday."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech search google)
• An Open Letter To Michelle Malkin from Trinidad and Tobago - KnowProSE.com
  "Those people you're writing about - well, I hate to ruin your writing rhetoric with actual facts, so I'll whisper into your eyeball: ..."
  (tags: politics blogs globalvoices)
• HOWTO anonymize your search history - addict3d.org
  "If you're worried about the Federal government getting your search-history out of Google, Yahoo and other search-engines, there are steps you can take to keep your personal search-history private."
  (tags: google search yahoo DOJ privacy surveillance)
• Keeping Secrets - A simple prescription for keeping Google's records out of government hands. By Tim Wu
  "But the big news for most Americans shouldn't be that the administration wants yet more confidential records. It should be the revelation that every single search you've ever conducted—ever—is stored on a database, somewhere."
  (tags: google yahoo search privacy surveillance)
• RED HERRING | Q&A: John Palfrey on Search
  "...as the Internet’s influence increasingly permeates every layer of society, questions arise about how web-based companies interact with governments and the law—at home and abroad. John Palfrey, a clinical law professor and executive director of th
  (tags: google search privacy surveillance yahoo microsoft)
• John Palfrey : StopBadware.org
  "Today, we are announcing a new project -- StopBadware.org ..."
  (tags: badware berkman palfrey)
• Privacy for People Who Don't Show Their Navels - New York Times
  "...interest in software that allows people to send e-mail messages that cannot be traced to their source or to maintain anonymous blogs has quietly increased over the last few years, say experts who monitor Internet security and privacy."
  (tags: privacy surveillance freespeech blogs securecomputing)
• On the spot: Chinese unruffled by Google censorship- Times Online
  "Jane Macartney, Beijing Correspondent for The Times, discovered that Google's decision to bow to Chinese censorship demands has made big news around the world - except in China."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google censorship freespeech)
• Calling Chinese Couch Potatoes
  "Toodou means "potato" in Mandarin. But Gary Wang hopes it will soon become synonymous with podcasts and video blogs. Wang is founder of a Shanghai startup called Toodou, which allows Chinese users to post material such as homemade music videos, cute pet
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch video blog podcasting videoblog censorship we web2.0 toodou)
• Toodou: Let a thousand videoblogs bloom at blog.matthewstinson.net
  "This story highlights the role that guanxi, generally thought of as connections, plays in media self-censorship. The more connected media personalities are, the greater their leeway in running stories that document social problems or have controversial c
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch toodou censorship blogs video podcasting freespeech)
• Google Now Censoring In China
  "Oh, the irony. Less than a week after we hear that Google is ready to fight the US government in part to defend its users, now comes news that Google will cave into the Chinese government's demands for its new Google China web site."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship google search freespeech)
• Google Censors Its Results in China
  "So, Google, if everything is shiny and happy in the Googleplex, please hand over the list of banned words or sites for every country. It’s a gray zone for sure, so we need transparency. Put that list on a public server in the US, where freedom of speec
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship google freespeech search)
• Good Morning Silicon Valley: It's like watching little Anakin grow into Darth Vader
  "Google made a nice deposit in its credibility account with its refusal to join the U.S. government on a fishing trip... But a few more moves like this China kowtow and that account will be drained dry."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google search censorship freespeech)
• RFA: China Closes Investigative Pages of Top Newspaper
  "Chinese authorities have closed a key supplement linked to one of the country's most influential newspapers after an explosive dispute between the paper's top editors and Communist Party officials over journalistic values."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech journalism)

Comments

[王宁]

last night,I heard a meeting record in which I'm so surprise to find how excellent your speaking chinese is.Great!

[Don Matthews]

I just wanted to say I saw you on the Newshour just now and was very impressed. You really seem to combine the best parts of the technical and a clear concise dissemination of data.

[Rebecca MacKinnon]

Thanks Don! :-)