links for 2006-02-09

• 'Citizen Journalism Is No Bubble' - OhmyNews International
  "Traditional and online media, the combination of professional and user-created content, are coming together as never before. Inexpensive technology and ever-growing global access to the Internet are fueling this merger. But like any relationship, they ha
  (tags: webcred media citizenmedia CitizenJournalism)
• Letter from Shanghai: Genie of free speech dodges China's censors - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
  "many observers of recent changes in Chinese society say the news of Google's concessions to censorship will do little to reverse a trend toward increasingly free expression that has been reshaping this society with ever more powerful effects since the be
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech humanrights)
• AsiaMedia :: Internet giants try to find a way to live and grow in China
  "the companies do have a choice -- it's just not an appealing one."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech yahoo microsoft google)
• FrontPage magazine.com :: Aiding the Policenet by Jamie Glazov
  "The Chinese Communist Party must be ecstatic that they have forced such a new economy icon to its knees."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship google freespeech)
• Yahoo helped sentence another cyber dissident to 8 years - Liu Xiaobo :: China Digital Times (CDT) 中国数字时代
  "Writer Liu Xiaobo has posted an article which reveals that Yahoo cooperated with Chinese police in 2003, much earlier than the Shi Tao case. "
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech humanrights lxb)
• EastSouthWestNorth: A Day In The Life Of A Chinese Internet Police
  "In the scheme of things, I don't think these 30,000 Internet police form the front line. Rather, it is the Internet unit administrators (such as BBS forum masters) who do the active work because they have domain knowledge. The Internet police are only
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch surveillance censorship freespeech)