links for 2007-07-18

• Clive Thompson on How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense
  "The power is in the surprising effects that come from receiving thousands of pings from your posse. And this, as it turns out, suggests where the Web is heading."
  (tags: twitter internet socialnetworking community culture identity mobile web2.0)
• Toekang IT - Blogs - CNET Asia: Indonesian bloggers launch Asia Blog Network
  "Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, AsiaBlogging.com is a global new media network featuring more than 70 blogs (in the first phase) on wide-ranging topics from movies and music to technology, sports and lifestyle. "
  (tags: blogs blogging asia indonesia citizenmedia)
• Two comparisons of print and online newspapers - Editors Weblog
  "the NNN study results do not support the popular belief that the Internet is having a detrimental effect on newspaper consumption. Rather, 87% of the crossover users reported that their time spent with newspaper media had remained the same or increased.
  (tags: newspapers internet web newmedia business)
• Chinese Internet censors blamed for email chaos | Reuters.ca
  "Internet users and company officials in China on Wednesday blamed a series of disruptions to cross-border email traffic on adjustments to the country's vast Internet surveillance system."
  (tags: gfw censorship surveillance freespeech e-mail china chineseinternetresearch)