links for 2006-12-07

• World Public Opinion:U.S. Public Opinion In Line With Iraq Study Group’s Expected Proposals
  "Americans Strongly Endorse Engaging Iran and Syria, Holding International Conference on Iraq Majority Favors Timeline for U.S. Withdrawal of Two Years or Less"
  (tags: iraq war pullout u.s.a. u.s.policy)
• PressThink: "A Collection of Journalists Who Have Distinctive Signatures." That's What John Harris Has in Mind.
  "The people having the most satisfying careers, it seems to me, are those who create a distinct signature for their work, who add value to the public conversation through their individual talents."
  (tags: journalism media internet politics)
• Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison - How Can the Internet Be Harnessed for Investigative Journalism? | NewAssignment.Net
  "Amid the din and aggressive edge of the digital conversation, how do we figure out what’s really going on in the world?"
  (tags: journalism internet media blogs blogging)
• China Media Project: China Youth Daily joins "animated" debate over China's proposed real-name Web registration system
  Translation of a China Youth Daily editorial from December 3rd: "Real-name Web Registration System Should Go Forward Only With Extreme Caution"
  (tags: realname china internet chineseinternetresearch journalism blogs blogging identity surveillance freespeech)
• IFRA releases special report about Web 2.0 - Editors Weblog
  The report provides a good definition of Web 2.0 from the news perspective: "it differs from Web 1.0 “in three key ways; the public are becoming the publishers, they are defining how they see information, and they are building communities in the process
  (tags: web2.0 journalism media community internet)
• How I'm Learning To Love The Web -Chen Feng :: China Digital Times (CDT) 中国数字时代
  "traditional media can complain that the Internet is wresting away their readers. But what they should complain about is the control of the press."
  (tags: censorship freespeech china internet chineseinternetresearch news journalism)
• When The RMB Dissolved Your Sense of Superiority
  Roland Soong translates a HK blogger's reaction to the fact that the HK dollar is no longer being accepted in much of southern China due to the strengthening of the RMB. He writes: "more and more Hong Kong people cannot see their own flaws. They are subm
  (tags: hongkong blogging china economy finance)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Stop Badware, and a question about where generativity lives…
  Ethan reflects on the StopBadware.org project, and Jonathan Zittrain's ideas about the need to defend generativity
  (tags: badware generativity software internet freedom)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

iran fought saddam for nearly 8 long years and reached a stalemate. then the US came in and captured Saddam for them. Iran owes US a BIG favour ;). (story half told)