links for 2006-01-30

• The Net for Journalists: A practical guide to the Internet for journalists in developing countries: UNESCO-CI
  "UNESCO collaborated with the Thomson Foundation and Commonwealth Broadcasting Association to produce a handbook for journalists of developing countries on the use of Internet for journalistic purposes."
  (tags: journalism globalvoices internet)
• On the Media --January 27, 2005- Not impressed with Google
  "The benevolent search engine-that-could was showered with boos this week, after it agreed to cooperate with Chinese government censors. To many, the move signaled a complete turnaround from the principled stand Google has taken against the U.S. governmen
  (tags: google search censorship freespeech surveillance china DOJ)
• China Herald - How the Google China crisis gets out of hand
  "The real problem Google has created for itself is that users can see how search engines are able to manipulate search results. Who can from now on believe that whatever search results we see - also outside China - are a true reflection of reality or the
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google search censorship freespeech internet blogs)
• A Newspaper That Focuses on Business Makes Room for More Personal Content - New York Times
  "Starting today, The Journal is expanding its coverage of people and running a comprehensive index of all the people who are mentioned significantly in that day's newspaper"
  (tags: journalism media webcred)
• Micro Persuasion: DOJ May One Day Try to Break Up Google
  "Years from now we will remark that this was the beginning of the end of Google as we know it. The reason is one day - maybe sooner than we think - the government will try to break up Google. This may accelerate depending on the outcome of the 2008 electi
  (tags: google search DOJ)
• Blinq: One Man Peace Mission
  "Hossein Derakshan writes that most of the commenters on the Persian-language version of his blog have been supportive of his trip to Israel, an effort to show readers in Iran what people are like in the Jewish state. And an effort to show Israelis an Ira
  (tags: globalvoices iran blogs israel)
• A Picture Says 1000 Words About Google's Censorship In China
  "Plenty are writing and writing about Google's agreement to censor results for China. But pictures perhaps better illustrate the differences that Google now endorses."
  (tags: google censorship china chineseinternetresearch freespeech search)
• BREITBART.COM - US Internet companies snub Congressional hearing
  " The leading US-based Internet companies are showing little interest in attending a Congressional briefing on worries that the firms are bending to the wishes of China's censors. Microsoft and Cisco Systems have refused to attend the event, while Google
  (tags: china congress google microsoft cisco yahoo censorship freespeech)

Comments

[dumbfounder]

check out my response to the Google/China deal:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060130/dcm045.html?.v=34

[Nick]

Just a general thought: could Google be persuaded, by public protest, to donate a significant portion of its Chinese profits to Amnesty International?

[Anthony]

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