links for 2006-05-24

• One Billion Internet Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
  "The Internet is growing at an annualized rate of 18% and now has one billion users. A second billion users will follow in the next ten years, bringing a dramatic change in worldwide usability needs."
  (tags: internet interesting)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Ethiopia “pioneers” cybercensorship in sub-Saharan Africa
  Ethan Zuckerman analyzes the implications of evidence that the Ethiopian government now seems to be censoring the internet.
  (tags: censorship internet freespeech humanrights)
• One Internet, Indivisible
  Ethan Zuckerman writes that "the single, unified Internet we've grown accustomed to is fragmenting."
  (tags: internet netgovernance netneutraliy netaccess censorship freespeech)
• MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Blogs, Wiki, Google Bomb Used to Free Egyptian Activist | PBS
  Mark Glaser writes a long post about how he got to know Alaa, the cicumstances under which he was detained, and efforts to call attention to his case.
  (tags: freealaa egypt globalvoices freespeech humanrights)