links for 2007-03-13

• Google races Baidu to build China's online library - ZDNet UK
  "Web search leader Google and its top rival in China, Baidu.com, are racing to build their online library services as they battle for a slice of the world's second-largest internet market."
  (tags: google baidu search books chineseinternetresearch)
• Baidu's Fortunes Go Up, Down, All Around | WebProNews
  "The Chinese search engine company is doing well or poorly, depending on what sort of timeframe you choose, and although Baidu is still beating Google (by quite a lot), it appears that the margin is shrinking."
  (tags: baidu chineseinternetresearch search google)
• Yahoo India (Sort Of) Apologizes For Stolen Recipe | WebProNews
  "Almost two months ago, Yahoo India was accused of redistributing a woman’s recipes without her permission. Now the company is apologizing (in a corporate-speak kind of way). Yahoo is also blaming the incident on another business."
  (tags: yahoo! india blogs)
• Ginger and Mango: Yahoo India and content theft
  "Yahoo India launched a beta version of their Malayalam (an Indian Language) portal and what do they do to fill their pages? Lift content just straight from small web magazines and blogs without asking a word or adequately compensating for those. What a s
  (tags: yahoo! india blogs plagiarism)
• Yahoo! China being sued for playing and linking to pirated digital media
  "Yahoo! China being sued for playing and linking to pirated digital media"
  (tags: yahoo! copyright law music)
• Pacific Epoch - Baidu Sued By Internet User
  "Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) was recently sued by an Internet user named Guo Li for revealing personal information, reports Hangzhou Daily. "
  (tags: baidu search law privacy)
• Zakaria: The Sky Isn't Falling in China - Newsweek International Editions - MSNBC.com
  "The day after the Shanghai stock market fell, we saw again all the same warnings about the Chinese system and the odds of its collapse."
  (tags: china economy politics)
• Future Lessons for J-school Students -- Creating a Community and Learning from It | NewAssignment.Net
  "if J-schools need to re-think how to teach journalism, this is probably an experiment we will see more of in the future — how to create and guide a community to help with your reporting."
  (tags: journalism education newmedia)
• Asia Sentinel - What China Might Have Been
  "The Chinese language book, which appeared in Hong Kong bookstores this month, is called “Zhao Ziyang: Captive Conversations.”
  (tags: china zhaoziyang democracy freespeech humanrights)
• AsiaMedia :: HONG KONG: Author of Zhao book asked to stop sales
  "Mainland authorities have been putting pressure on Zong Fengming, the author of a book on ousted Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, to take it off the shelves after it went on sale in Hong Kong this month."
  (tags: china zhaoziyang humanrights freespeech democracy hongkong)
• AsiaMedia :: HONG KONG: Gay activist plans legal action over RTHK row
  "A man interviewed in an RTHK television programme on gay lovers is considering legal action against a Broadcasting Authority ruling that the show was unfair, partial and biased towards homosexuality."
  (tags: hongkong freespeech gender press media journalism)
• Center for Citizen Media: Blog » Blog Archive » Economist Magazine Tests “Open System” — With Tom Sawyer Economics
  Dan Gillmor reviews the Economist's "Project Red Stripe"
  (tags: citizenmedia newmedia web2.0 journalism blogging)
• Project Red Stripe
  "We're a small team set up by The Economist Group, the parent company of the eponymous newspaper. Our mission is to develop truly innovative services online. " etc.
  (tags: media journalism web2.0 innovation news blogging newmedia)
• Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2007
  Conclusions include: " News organizations need to do more to think through the implications of this new era of shrinking ambitions." and "The evidence is mounting that the news industry must become more aggressive about developing a new economic model. "
  (tags: news journalism internet business newmedia citizenmedia)
• AsiaMedia :: Internet police keep tight grip on blogs
  "China's 'upper authorities' are a secret labyrinth world of dozens of administrative departments responsible for censoring the Internet, particularly blogs"
  (tags: china blogs blogging censorship freespeech chineseinternetresearch)
• Boing Boing: India: Google's Orkut helps cops censor? New cyberterror law...
  "The Indian Express and other regional media are reporting that Google's social networking service Orkut will cooperate with the Mumbai Police to share IP addresses of users who post “objectionable content” on Orkut."
  (tags: india surveillance privacy google freespeech)