links for 2006-12-09

• In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship
  This article is a distillation of Reed Hundt's book with the same title. He argues we need leadership that maximizes opportunities for all Americans - and enables them to succeed and innovate - if the U.S. is to meet the economic challenge posed by China.
  (tags: china u.s.a. innovators business economy u.s.policy politics liberalism)
• China's New Scramble for Africa — Jen Brea
  "What makes this story remarkable is that for the first time since the end of colonial rule, a major power sees in Africa not a charity case, a landscape of endless need, but as an exceptional strategic and business opportunity."
  (tags: china africa geopolitics trade investing)
• EastSouthWestNorth: Chinese Blogs Have Unique Chinese Characteristics
  Rose Lu Qiu Luwei, Chinese blogger & TV journalist gives her thoughts about Chinese blogs and says: "after more than a year of blogging, my experience is that the influence of bloggers is sometimes even greater than traditional media. "
  (tags: blogs blogging china chineseinternetresearch journalism media politics)
• Friends, friendsters, and top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites
  Danah Boyd's First Monday paper about "Friending" in online social networks: "...because the architecture of social network sites is fundamentally different than the architecture of unmediated social spaces, these sites introduce an environment that is qu
  (tags: socialnetworking internet friending identity)