links for 2006-10-18

• Ethics: Trust and reputation on the web
  "Trust and reputation are fundamental to scholarly publishing. The web provides tantalizing new ways to publish, but can these win the trust that is crucial to scientific acceptance?"
  (tags: trust publishing science knowledge academia scholarship)
• Technical solutions: Evolving peer review for the internet
  "Peer review needs to adapt to the pace and volume of information published online"
  (tags: academia publishing trust scholarship)
• The Skinny On Web 2.0 - News by InformationWeek
  "Web 2.0 is all the Web sites out there that get their value from the actions of users."
  (tags: internet web2.0)
• Business Communicators of Second Life®: Reuters Opening Second Life Bureau
  "Reuters Second Life News Center signals that Reuters believes Second Life is a viable and "real" business sector – an environment that real business should be monitoring."
  (tags: secondlife business newmedia virtualworlds reuters news media)
• RFA: Users Take Aim at China Telecom Software
  "Broadband customers across China have hit out at software provided by the country’s biggest Internet Service Provider (ISP), saying it limits their autonomy online."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet censorship freespeech)
• Andrew Lih » Blog Archive » Chart: Wikipedia access in China
  "Here’s an update - bloggers and Wikipedians across the PRC have helped me assemble this chart of Wikipedia reachability."
  (tags: wikipedia china internet censorship freespeech)
• Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Iran bans fast internet to cut west's influence
  "Service providers told to restrict online speeds Opponents say move will hamper country's progress"
  (tags: iran internet freespeech broadband)
• Defecting From Despair - Los Angeles Times
  "A perilous odyssey aided by the Internet gives N. Korean refugees a chance to settle in the U.S."
  (tags: NKorea internet humanrights)

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