links for 2008-02-23

• Digital Openness in Closed Societies [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service] - Council on Foreign Relations
  John Palfrey of the Bekman Center and Jeff Jarvis of CUNY and Buzzmachine have a very interesting conversation at the Council on Foreign Relations about free speech issues, censorship, and corporate responsibility.
  (tags: freespeech censorship chineseinternetresearch internet csr)
• Yang asks U.S. to seek release of jailed Chinese writers | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
  "Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang is asking U.S. officials to secure the release of political dissidents jailed for using the Internet to share information about life in China."
  (tags: yahoo! china shitao chineseinternetresearch humanrights freespeech privacy u.s.policy)
• The Associated Press: Yahoo Asks US Gov't to Help Dissidents
  "Yang's request, faxed to Rice on Thursday morning, is the company's latest effort to undo damage set off when Yahoo cooperated with Chinese authorities and disclosed information about the online activities of the two journalists."
  (tags: china yahoo! chineseinternetresearch internet humanrights privacy csr)
• The Associated Press: Yahoo Lobbied on China, Foreign Control
  "Yahoo Inc., which has come under fire for its role in the jailing of Chinese journalists, spent $1.6 million in 2007 lobbying the government, in part, on issues related to China and foreign jurisdiction over U.S. companies."
  (tags: yahoo! china chineseinternetresearch)
• Attention thieves; keeping you from living a “FOOCamp life?” « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger
  "Not getting invited back was the greatest gift that Tim O’Reilly could have given to me. Why? Because he had shown me a way to live, then by pulling it away he forced me to do it on my own."
  (tags: ideas scoble qualityoflife)
• Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine
  "Digg and Wikipedia would do well to stop pretending they're operated by the many and start thinking of ways to rein in the power of the few."
  (tags: digg wikipedia web2.0 newmedia internet democracy)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

"Digg and Wikipedia would do well to stop pretending they're operated by the many and start thinking of ways to rein in the power of the few."

How true. My contribution to the Tiananmen Square protests was removed so many times that in the end I simply threw up my hands and decided that I will make my point with youtube video to immortalize it for the sake of our future generation of historians. I worked on this last night in response to my wikipedia entry removal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbX0gAk3zRA

entitled, "Tiananmen Massacre is a Myth".

I still rely on Wikipedia a lot though because it is real time and once in a while I can get differing opinions. I think when one uses wikipedia, it must be used with a very critical mindset.