links for 2008-02-18

• Assessing Spielberg's withdrawal from the Beijing Olympics
  Danwei translates some reactions from around the Chinese blogosphere.
  (tags: olympics china internet blogs humanrights darfur)
• Imagethief : Steven Spielberg pulls out of the Olympics - Updated
  Will Moss has a comprehensive roundup of coverage and comment on the Spielberg pullout.
  (tags: darfur china olympics humanrights internet blogs blogging media)
• The Standard - Hong Kong's First FREE English Newspaper
  "Police should be given guidelines to seek a preliminary assessment when determining whether a particular article is obscene or indecent as in the case of the celebrated internet nude scandal, an Obscene Articles Tribunal adjudicator said yesterday."
  (tags: hongkong porn internet censorship privacy freespeech)
• The Obama Express (Scripting News)
  "many of us want to get on board the Obama Express. This is the America we want. This is the leadership we've been lacking. You have to go back to Kennedy's "Ask Not" plea to find a leader as inspiring as Obama.:
  (tags: obama vote2008 politics u.s.a.)
• American Journalism Review - Wikipedia in the Newsroom
  " While the line “according to Wikipedia” pops up occasionally in news stories, it’s relatively rare to see the user-created online encyclopedia cited as a source. But some journalists find it very valuable as a road map to troves of valuable inform
  (tags: wikipedia journalism newmedia teaching)
• Wikipedia and the New Curriculum
  "Literacy in modern society means not only being able to read a variety of informational formats; it means being able to participate in their creation, with Wikipedia serving as the marquee example."
  (tags: wikipedia education information academia scholarship teaching newmedia)

Comments

[Charles Liu]

Mia Farrow is out of her mind.

After so many years of inaction and indifference by the West, we suddenly want to blame Darfur on China? There are plenty of blame to go around, starting with our support of the SPLA and John Garang 10 years ago:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Darfur+CIA+early+involvement

At any rate the original Darfur mess we started has since been replaced with inter-tribal conflict and herdsmen fighting for territory. Neither Khartoum nor Beijing has much influence over that.

China is simply a scapegoat.

[mahathir_fan]

No use trying to use reason with these people. They are utterly closed minded and stubborn. If you try to reason with them, they treat it as you are attacking their religion.

There is no reasoning with them and I would rather they boycott the Olympic games than to show up with their long faces.

[Charles Liu]

If Mia Farrow wants to end the Darfur genocide, she should be focusing on our own, not mere complacency, but fueling of the conflict. Here are two articles, one by Keith Snow:

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=447&Itemid=1

And by William Engdahl:

http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eur asia/Oil_in_Africa/oil_in_africa.html

[Charles Liu]

Here's a commentary by Philip Cunningham on Mia Farrow's narcissism and subliminal racism:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/21/opinion/edcunningham.php