links for 2006-05-10

• MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Reuters Looks to Provide 'Spine of Truth' to Blogosphere | PBS
  "In the brave new world of citizen media — with bloggers, podcasters and video journalists doing it themselves — what role does the musty old wire service play?"
  (tags: reuters globalvoices gv-press media journalism wemedia)
• Search Engine Journal » Google AdWords Campaign Circumvents Censorship in China
  "after setting up a China geotargeted AdWords account for Human Rights Watch, the blogger was able to have those ads served on Google.cn."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet censorship circumvention cyber-activism hacktivism)
• Interfax China- Hotmail and Windows Live Mail widely inaccessible in mainland China
  " The main sites of both Hotmail (http://www.hotmail.com) and Windows Live Mail (http://www.live.com) of Microsoft have been widely inaccessible from mainland China as of May 1, 2006. Access to the sites has yet to be restored."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet censorship)