links for 2007-07-31

• Citizen Journalism and humanitarian aid: Bane or boon? « ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace)
  "Our challenge is to temper the euphoria and ensure the best of new media and citizen journalism is used to alleviate the continuing suffering of communities embroiled in conflict, or faced with the sudden wrath of nature."
  (tags: newmedia journalism internet blogs citizenmedia humanitarian)
• EastSouthWestNorth: The Corporate Policy for Yahoo! China
  " If freedom of speech on the Chinese Internet is ever to come about, it will not be handed over to them because of U.S. Congressional actions against American corporations. The Chinese people will fight and obtain that freedom for themselves..."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch yahoo! censorship privacy freespeech humanrights)
• Threat Level - Wired Blogs - Yahoo Knew More About China Journalist Subpoena Than It Told Congress It Did - Updated
  "Yahoo spokesman Jim Cullinan says the document does not contradict Callahan's testimony"
  (tags: china yahoo! privacy surveillance csr humanrights freespeech chineseinternetresearch)
• Yahoo Testimony About Imprisoned Reporter Contradicted -- China -- InformationWeek
  "A document from the Beijing State Security Bureau suggests that Yahoo possessed more information than it has admitted to about Chinese journalist Shi Tao."
  (tags: china yahoo! chineseinternetresearch surveillance privacy humanrights freespeech)
• Chinese dissident e-mails: what did Yahoo know, and when did it know it?
  "Did Yahoo lie before Congress? It depends what "no information" means. ...Should Yahoo have been willing to defy the government over a matter on which it had so little information? Not according to Yahoo."
  (tags: yahoo! privacy surveillance china humanrights freespeech chineseinternetresearch)
• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Networked journalism
  "I think a better term for what I’ve been calling “citizen journalism” might be “networked journalism.”" (a year-old post by Jeff Jarvis, worth revisiting)
  (tags: journalism2.0 web2.0 CitizenJournalism citizenmedia journalism internet newmedia)
• It's Not Citizen Journalism Or Crowdsourcing - It's Just Journalism » Publishing 2.0
  "The future of journalism depends on collaboration, not silos and fiefdoms. Journalism with a capital J needs to maintain standards but it also, desperately, needs to evolve in order to thrive as in a networked media age."
  (tags: journalism newmedia internet citizenmedia CitizenJournalism)
• Wikipedia founder to compete with Google - vnunet.com
  "The new site, due to launch by the end of 2007, will combine human-assisted editing with computer-controlled searches."
  (tags: wikipedia wiki wikia search open opensource google)
• Flickr tour hits Hong Kong at 852signal - Hong Kong Web 2.0
  "Flickr and their community manager, Heather Champ (I’m assuming) will be in town on August 30th...would like to hear some feedback...as to why they’ve been pretty hush hush about the recent events of Oiwan Lam."
  (tags: flickr yahoo! censorship hongkong)

Comments

[doug]

I'd like to know why nobody at Flickr has ever helped me find my lost files.

They can solve that, right?

[charles liu]

There you go, R you owe Callahan an apology.

And like I said, new/citizen media is not about responsibility (otherwise you would not have called him a liar.)

[Rebecca MacKinnon]

Charles, no I don't think I do. Callahan said: "we had no information about the nature of the investigation." Despite the fact that Yahoo! insists that statement was true, the fact of the matter is, they did have some information. Granted they did not have all information, but his statement said "no information" which was not true.

What they ought to have done with this information is obviously the subject of heated debate, as my last post discusses.