links for 2007-07-21

• Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits: South China Morning Post Stays in the Stone Age
  "The South China Morning Post is still the most popular daily paper in Hong Kong and more profitable than most other dailies in the world. But as the world goes online, leaving the stone age is compulsory for survival."
  (tags: newspapers hongkong internet web2.0 journalism news)
• MediaShift . EducationShift::'Open Universities' Try to Bring College to Masses | PBS
  "can you really get an education for free online? Yes and no. I set out to try to see what I could learn from two high-profile initiatives, Wikiversity and iTunes U."
  (tags: education web2.0 wikiversity itunesu)
• » Open source value in corporate blogs | Open Source | ZDNet.com
  "the real value of a corporate blog. If your management wants transparency, you can get it by blogging. Break down the wall between your CEO and the market, and you may be surprised at the benefits which result."
  (tags: blogs blogging corporateimage business)
• The Internet hasn't changed Chinese people's lives?
  "That the Internet is changing Chinese people's lives is obvious. That China Business News would deny it is curious."
  (tags: china internet chineseinternetresearch culture)
• WALES: Libraries block web access to BNP site
  "A NORTH Wales council was accused of political bias yesterday after the British National Party website was found to be blocked by library computers." Websense is the culprit...
  (tags: censorship internet u.k. politics websense)
• Andrew Lih » Blog Archive » Unwanted: New articles in Wikipedia
  "I don’t usually do provocative headlines. But Wikipedia has undergone such a dramatic culture shift of late that it merits wider attention."
  (tags: wikipedia)
• Andrew Lih » Blog Archive » Facebook the real deal
  "I am in New York City for a few days, and it’s incredible how many times Facebook has come up thoughout my visit...."
  (tags: facebook socialnetworking e-mail web2.0)
• Blogging your way to the unemployment line
  "32 percent of companies employ people whose job responsibilities include sifting through outgoing e-mail. 14 percent of companies have disciplined employees for improper use of social networking sites, and nine percent have fired people within the last y
  (tags: business blogging culture)
• China Media Project: Southern Metropolis Daily: cardboard buns and China's crisis of public trust
  "The steamed bun may now have become one of the most befitting symbols we have for the riddle of free speech and public trust in China."
  (tags: china media journalism trust government freespeech propaganda)
• ONLINE PRODUCTIVITY GOD: 400+ Resources To Make You Smarter, Faster & a Demon in the Sack
  "we look at four ways to get through your work faster: running your life online, mastering RSS news feeds, aggregating your social networks and using keyboard shortcuts to save precious seconds."
  (tags: productivity internet resources tools web2.0 rss socialnetworking)