links for 2006-08-06

• EastSouthWestNorth: Hong Kong Media At Crossroads
  Roland Soong asks: "So does the sale of Hong Kong Economic Journal mean that genuine journalism in Hong Kong is dead as a result of "information monopolies, propaganda, lies, censorship, surveillance, and ignorance"?"
  (tags: journalism media hongkong freespeech)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Lessig’s Keynote at Wikimania
  Ethan Z has an excellent summary of Larry Lessig's talk: "Larry’s talk focuses on the idea of read-only and read-write cultures (RO vs. RW)."
  (tags: media creativecommons lessig internet)
• It's about freedom... - Malaysiakini
  Buddhist monk Stanley Koh writes about internet censorship battles in Malaysia: "Political instability, riots and violence in any country is not caused by the ‘written word’. Critical thinking tells us that world wars are not caused by bloggers but po
  (tags: internet freespeech censorship malaysia)
• Susan Crawford blog :: Mainstreaming online life
  "a better approach might be letting reporters have a personality online -- not just the occasional video, but a constant online presence that's more than a byline. That's the place to learn, rather than in the traditional confines of a business school or
  (tags: journalism education blogging news media)

Comments

[DENIEL]

>Buddhist monk Stanley Koh writes about internet censorship battles in Malaysia
hm... Is this realy?