links for 2006-05-21

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Dan Gillmor answers your concerns
  "Dan Gillmor, author of We the Media, responds to e-mails from readers about the emerging threat to in-depth journalism as the advertising newspapers use to keep themselves solvent moves to the net."
  (tags: webcred wemedia journalism blogs blogs&journalism)
• Is Nationalism Destroying the Internet? - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
  "The Web changed the world. Politics is now changing it back. ...Clearly the Internet must move beyond its U.S.-centric roots, but it's just as clear that it shouldn't look like the United Nations, or like China, or like a for-profit enterprise."
  (tags: internet netgovernance censorship politics wsis ICANN root)
• Finding their niche in a changing China / Author tells how young people adjust to turbocharged economy
  Peter Hessler's new book, "Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present,'' views China through the lives of individuals.
  (tags: china)
• EU regulation attacked as censorship | The Register
  "Libertarians have got a bee in their bonnet over European Commission proposals to regulate commercial audio and video broadcasts over the internet and mobile phones."
  (tags: censorship europe freespeech)
• New America Media: Beijing Magazine Pushes Boundaries of Censorship
  "An editor of an influential business magazine in Beijing discusses how she successfully navigates barriers of censorship in China."
  (tags: china censorship freespeech journalism)
• Entertainment firms see 3G as mobile phone cash cow
  "NEW entertainment applications such as blogs and cartoon videos via mobile phones won't take off in China until data transfer speeds improve with the advent of next-generation networks..."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch mobile 3G blogs)
• Google Watch : Google Rings Up More Cell Phone Partners, Options
  Google has a deal with Japanese mobile operator KDDI and is in talks with China Mobile.
  (tags: google mobile chineseinternetresearch censorship cellphones)