links for 2007-07-17

• Center for Citizen Media: Blog » Blog Archive » Citizen Media: A Progress Report
  "We’ve come a long way. There’s a growing recognition and appreciation of why citizen journalism matters. ...But we have a long, long way to go. ..."
  (tags: citizenmedia newmedia journalism)
• Recovering Journalist: Backfence: Lessons Learned
  "we all believe that the core Backfence concept—user-generated hyperlocal citizens’ media—is sound. Someday soon, somebody will make it work and turn it into a successful business."
  (tags: citizenmedia hyperlocal newmedia journalism internet)
• Digital World: Here's a better Internet filter bill | Jerusalem Post
  "the Knesset will soon debate a bill submitted by Shas MKs to require ISPs to supply users with Internet filters - either on individual PCs or on the Web, via the ISP's portal."
  (tags: israel censorship censorware business law politics freespeech)
• Flickr Criticized For Regional Censorship | WebProNews
  "Though Internet companies self-censoring in certain countries is not a new dilemma, this incident coincides with a blogger that faces fines for just linking to offending material."
  (tags: flickr yahoo! censorship oiwan freespeech hongkong)
• paidContent.org: The Economics of Content - Aggregation & Context in The Video World And Threat To Media Companies
  Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang has a new report "focusing on the rise of online video, especially consumer-generated, and how this will lead to the rise of aggregators in the market."
  (tags: video web2.0 citizenmedia aggregation newmedia)
• A short history of blogging : The Blog Herald
  Duncan Riley's first draft of his Chapter 3: A Short History of Blogging (book title TBA)
  (tags: blogging blogs history internet media citizenmedia)
• Wall Street Journal Tries to Re-Write Blogging History
  "blogging is not 10 years old, it’s actually older."
  (tags: blogs blogging history media internet web2.0)
• » DRM and open source are the great divide | Open Source | ZDNet.com
  "what if we could find a DRM-free business model which spun money for content producers at least as well as open source does for software?"
  (tags: drm copyright music creativity business internet)