links for 2007-02-01

• Web giants ask for feds' help on censorship | CNET News.com
  "Google, Yahoo and Microsoft representatives on Tuesday implored the U.S. government to help set ground rules for complying with demands by foreign law enforcement agencies for user records or censorship."
  (tags: internet censorship GOFA law chineseinternetresearch)
• China Web2.0 Review » » In-depth review of Baidu Bookmark service
  "After living with a slow network for a month, I realized that two services are the most important to me: search and bookmark."
  (tags: internet baidu search tagging china chineseinternetresearch)
• Pew Internet: Tagging
  "A December 2006 survey has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts."
  (tags: pewinternet tagging weinberger internet web2.0)
• Eugene Robinson - Throwing Their Blogs into the Ring - washingtonpost.com
  "Edwards has been campaigning in cyberspace for months, building a deep, "sticky" Web site with tons of multimedia offerings and a destination-quality blog. Clinton is still working on a blog. Obama is apparently still working on a lot of things."
  (tags: politics u.s.a. internet vote2008 obama edwards clinton blogging web2.0)
• Tomski: The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles
  Blogged by a BBC guy: "We developed these as part of the BBC2.0 project." Found via Mindy McAdams. Great stuff. Must read for journalists & J-students.
  (tags: web2.0 bbc journalism news internet)
• Does my web site suck checklist Part One Web Pages That Suck learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design what we clicked on checklist one
  Another great link via Mindy McAdams.
  (tags: howto design)
• Teaching Online Journalism: Multimedia package: China's Great Grab
  Mindy McAdams has a critical evalutation of the Digital Edge award winners.
  (tags: internet design journalism multimedia news)
• China leapfrogs to 4G mobiles -Internet & Telecom-Infotech-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
  "Third generation (3G) telephony is passe. China has leapfrogged into 4G mobile systems..."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch mobile wireless 4G)
• Reporters sans frontières - Dictatorships get to grips with Web 2.0
  "It has become vital to examine new technology from a moral standpoint and understand the secondary effects of it. If firms and democratic countries continue to duck the issue and pass off ethical responsibility on others, we shall soon be in a world wher
  (tags: censorship privacy web2.0 circumvention surveillance freespeech humanrights)
• Egypt: Trial of blogger expands realm of repression
  "Amnesty International today called for the immediate and unconditional release of Karim Amer, the first Egyptian blogger to be tried for writing blogs criticizing Egypt's al-Azhar religious authorities, President Husni Mubarak and Islam."
  (tags: egypt blogging bloggers freespeech humanrights)