links for 2006-02-17

• FT.com / By industry / Media & internet - Bill Gates interview transcript
  "The FT’s Richard Waters talks to Bill Gates at the RSA Security Conference 2006 in San Jose about Microsoft strategies on computer security, as well as the issue of censorship in China during the RSA Security Conference 2006 in San Jose."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship internet microsoft)
• The great firewall of China - Los Angeles Times
  "China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2002 followed a long process of negotiation with business and government, and it led to changes in Chinese law to address the concerns of international businesses and governments. Similarly, Internet-rel
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech microsoft google cisco yahoo GOFA)
• More worries about Google Desktop 3 | Tech News on ZDNet
  " Google Desktop's new search-across-computers feature could put sensitive data at risk and violate federal data-privacy regulations, say IT administrators at a public university and a large manufacturing company. Both are banning it from their networks."
  (tags: google privacy)
• Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | The ringmaster of the blogosphere
  "Technorati.com began as a case of 'scratching a personal itch' and has grown to be a vital tool for web watchers"
  (tags: technorati blogs)
• Twilight of the Blogs - Are they over as a business? By Daniel Gross
  "as businesses, blogs may have peaked. There are troubling signs—akin to the 1999 warnings about the Internet bubble—that suggest blogs have just hit their top."
  (tags: blogs blogs&journalism media)
• Blogs to Riches - The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom -- New York Magazine
  "The age of the blog moguls is here."
  (tags: blogs blogs&journalism blogs&business media journalism)
• Scripting News: 2/16/2006
  "At least Microsoft isn't fucking with my integrity (and yours) the way Google is."
  (tags: google)
• Comment and opinion from the Times and The Sunday Times - Times Online
  China's leaders have no idea how to handle the new cultural revolution of dissent and openness
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch blogs internet censorship freespeech)
• China's Enduring Free-Speech Advocates
  An anticensorship letter from former high-ranking Communist Party officials is a bold move, but it's unlikely to affect Beijing policy
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch chinese-politics internet censorship media freespeech)
• Proposed law targets tech-China cooperation | CNET News.com
  "Nearly every U.S. company with a Web site located in China will have to move it elsewhere or its executives would face prison terms of up to a year, according to proposed legislation expected to be introduced this week in the U.S. Congress."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch GOFA censorship freespeech google microsoft yahoo cisco)
• » Arguing about arguing about China | Rational rants | ZDNet.com
  "Technology is not neutral when it is used to distort the choices people have in how they will inform or entertain themselves. If Silicon Valley doesn't embrace this debate, it will find itself on the receiving end of some well-intended but poorly conceiv
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch GOFA censorship freespeech google microsoft yahoo cisco)
• Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 2: Beyond Search
  "Today I'm going to cover the growth of the blogosphere as media, and discuss some of the emerging trends that deal with handling information overload."
  (tags: blogs media webcred technorati)
• Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth
  "The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago."
  (tags: blogs technorati media)

Comments

[ibahrine]

Excellent postings on blogosphere.
Check this
http://www.cultdeadcow.com/archives/2006/02/cdc_launches_global_.php3