links for 2006-07-19

• Times Online News Log: When the booms and whooshes become an obsession
  "Accustomed to some of the most intense media coverage on Earth, Israelis, Palestinians and Lebanese, some journalists, others just bystanders, are writing and recording the current Middle East crisis, in blogs and by posting their pictures on the interne
  (tags: blogs mideast globalvoices)
• Center for Citizen Media: Collaborative News Survey: Hype versus Reality
  Dan Gillmor posts a study conducted by Harvard grad student Hsing Wei, titled: "The Hype vs. Reality vs. What People Value: Emerging Collaborative News Models and the Future of News”
  (tags: citizenmedia CitizenJournalism blogs media journalism web2.0 webcred)
• Fourteen human rights organisations express support for a US draft law on free expression online (GOFA)
  Support is lining up behind the Global Online Freedom Act. (for latest version of the proposed legislation go here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.04780:
  (tags: GOFA censorship freespeech humanrights chineseinternetresearch cisco microsoft yahoo! google)
• Global Voices Online » China: How do you say RSS feed in Chinese again?
  John Kennedy takes us on a great tour of the Chinese blogosphere this week.
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet blogs blog blogging globalvoices)
• AsiaMedia :: CHINA: 48th shutdown of dissident writers' online chat forum
  "A mainland online discussion forum called "Democracy and Freedom" has been shut down by the central authorities for the 48th time since it was founded in 2001 by a group of dissident writers."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech humanrights bbs)