links for 2006-09-28

• No More Chinese Whispers
  by James McGregor
  "The current danger is that Chinese leaders will believe their own baloney, that America's main goal is to keep China poor and weak, and base their future course on that premise. The truth is, some in America have that agenda. But another truth is, we cou
  (tags: china geopolitics u.s.-china)
• MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Citizen Journalism | PBS
  Mark Glaser takes an in-depth look at what citizen journalism is and who is doing it.
  (tags: citizenmedia CitizenJournalism)
• Self-Censorship in Hong Kong Under Britain and China - Kin-ming Liu at PostGlobal
  "Even though no official censorship exists in Hong Kong, self-censorship, regrettably, has become the norms since my hometown was taken over by China in 1997."
  (tags: hongkong journalism freespeech censorship humanrights news china)
• China's next-generation Internet - Little Red Blog - Blogs - CNET Asia
  "What if you built an Internet and no one came? This was the question that went through my mind when I saw a couple of stories this week about China's certification of a "next-generation" IPv6-based Internet."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet censorship freespeech ipv6 netgovernance)
• Xinhua - English: China leads next generation Internet development
  "China has written the development of the next generation Internet into its national economic and social development plan for the 2006-2010 period, and made it a key project in building an information-based country."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet ipv6 freespeech)
• People's Daily Online -- Number of bloggers in China reaches 17.5 million
  "The number of bloggers in China was 17.5 million at the end of August, according to a report from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), on September 23"
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch blogs bloggers internet)
• China Media Project: "Restrictive Chongqing Internet regulations revised under public pressure"
  "Bowing to public pressure, the Chinese municipality of Chongqing revised regulations requiring private at-home Internet users to register by October 30, according to a local newspaper"
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch freespeech surveillance privacy)
• China Media Project: Web user in Guangdong sues local Website for blocking ID and removing postings
  "A Web user from a city south of Guangzhou is suing a popular local Website for blocking his login ID, shutting down his mailbox and erasing his Web postings"
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet censorship law)