links for 2006-10-21

• RED HERRING | Anonymity Ending in China Blogs?
  "an insider at China’s Ministry of Information Industries (MII) now says that upcoming regulations will require bloggers to register with real names and identification numbers."
  (tags: anonymity china censorship freespeech internet chineseinternetresearch blogs blogging)
• Is Google Evil?
  "Google already knows more about you than the National Security Agency ever will. And don’t assume for a minute it can keep a secret."
  (tags: google search privacy surveillance)
• Neeka's Backlog - looking for stuff to translate...
  "I'm so tired of reading through other people's hatred."
  (tags: russia globalvoices)
• Good Girls Go Bad, for a Day - New York Times
  "the abundance of risqué costumes that will be shrink-wrapped around legions of women come Oct. 31 prompts a larger question: Why have so many girls grown up to trade in Wonder Woman costumes for little more than Wonderbras?"
  (tags: women sex gender self-image internalized-sexism lack-of-decent-female-role-models)
• 社会企业家(by 方军) - 思维的乐趣BLOG
  "一个热点，一个趋势。在企业的经济性之外，开始重视社会性。"
  (tags: trust business ethics CSR)
• MediaShift . Media Usage::Finding Balance in Teen Use of Social Media | PBS
  "The subject of the talk was teen use of social media such as online social networks, blogs, instant messaging, text messaging. The questions put to me were: How prevalent is the usage? Is this dangerous and isolating? How should we guide kids in this tec
  (tags: socialnetworking media teens instantmessaging blogs)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

Concerning the red herring article, I think it simply points that China's surveillance technology still lacks far behind the West. The west has the Echelon program which can track pretty much any communication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

China needs something like this?