links for 2006-09-24

• Litmus test for Thailand's ruling military council: leave the press alone
  "In abnormal times, the media is the canary in the mines. (Or, even to its critics, at least the frog in the pond.) Wherever and whenever the press is weakened, society has learned to understand that there is something worrisome in the air."
  (tags: thailand press journalism freespeech politics)
• Citizen Journalism Filling In Some Blanks - Public Eye
  "What if you held a military coup and nobody cared enough to cover it? Call in the citizen journalists, of course."
  (tags: globalvoices citizenmedia thailand journalism media freespeech)
• MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Can Witness, Global Voices Make Human Rights Video Go Viral? | PBS
  "what if you could take videos shot by citizens of human rights violations, such as police brutality or torture, and got them to go viral, bringing more attention to the crimes?"
  (tags: globalvoices humanrights witness journalism video citizenmedia youtube)
• Murdoch's Mission to China
  "The News Corp. mogul's wife is said to be smoothing the way for MySpace's entry into China's potentially enormous market"
  (tags: china myspace newscorp censorship freespeech blogs)
• Censors come calling - Technology - smh.com.au
  "Studies show a prisoner's behaviour changes when they believe they are being watched. In the same way, people's concerns about what can be monitored on the internet lead to self-censorship and would reduce the need for 30,000 internet censors in China."
  (tags: china censorship internet)
• Eons: 'MySpace' for the boomer set | csmonitor.com
  "Seniors are logging on to Eons.com and discovering the world of online networking."
  (tags: socialnetworking)
• Blogging Is Good News for Africa - OhmyNews International
  "blogs represent a way for Africa -- this most misunderstood place -- to be heard directly. Now Africans can speak to the world directly and tell each other and outsiders what is happening, and how the world can assist or understand what is happening. "
  (tags: africa globalvoices blogging internet media journalism citizenmedia)
• Committee to Protect Journalists - China: Olympics organizers must ensure media freedom
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch media journalism freespeech censorship)