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links for 2007-09-30

• We need a Freedom of Expression League Table for Web 2.0 | internet.artizans
  "with the emergence of web 2.0 sites as spaces for civic dialogue there's a critical need to test their commitment to free expression and the exchange of ideas."
  (tags: activism freespeech privacy internet web2.0)

links for 2007-09-29

• Finding big brother in China's Facebook
  "Social networking sites, given that their function is to search and connect with friends and contacts, by their very nature require one to register their real name. Chinese netizens nontheless lump this together with the real name system, and all the neg
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch surveillance internet socialnetworking realname privacy bbs)

links for 2007-09-25

• Weblogsky: Creative Commons, Commercial Use, and Privacy
  "Virgin Mobile, or whoever was creating the campaign for them, should have known that a model release was necessary."
  (tags: creativecommons business photos photography copyright ip)
• Chasing the Dragon At ‘Summer Davos,’ hard talk about soft power «
  "Beijing’s reluctance to engage in open debate — and its reflexive prickliness in response to even mild forms of foreign criticism — augers poorly for its hope to win friends and influence people in the wider world."
  (tags: china wef softpower friedman globalization)
• Eugene Robinson - Some Bad News to Break - washingtonpost.com
  "Why did CBS back off? Rather contends it was because Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom, wanted to avoid being at loggerheads with the Bush administration. "
  (tags: rathergate cbs u.s.a. bush journalism politics media blogs)

links for 2007-09-24

• China censors Internet users with site bans, cartoon cop spies
  "The virtual police may be Orwellian, but the fact that they cannot stop the spread of river crab images and related protesting messages marks the beginning of the end of the Communist Party's ideological and propaganda control over Chinese society."
  (tags: china censorship freespeech internet humanrights blogs blogging web2.0)
• Preston: Owners are to blame for press decline, not the net « Online Journalism Blog
  “The internet may be the deliverer of the coup de grace but it is not to blame for the decline of newspapers.” Instead, he blamed “inertia, fatalism, and cost-cutting,” combined with social changes.
  (tags: journalism newspapers business news media internet)

links for 2007-09-23

• EastSouthWestNorth: The Hong Kong District Council Elections
  Hong Kong blogger Roland Soong is keeping an eye on our New Media Workshop class. He brings us a collection of "translations from the blog of a former political insider" related to District Council elections and politics. Thanks Roland!! :)
  (tags: districtcouncil hongkong politics jmschku elections newmedia blogs blogging)
• UPI Asia Online - Analysis: China backtracks on press promises
  By a recent graduate of the JMSC!
  (tags: china freespeech journalism humanrights olympics)
• Journal of a Strike - Laohu Miao (老虎庙) :: China Digital Times (CDT) 中国数字时代
  Citizen journalism by a blogger visiting Inner Mongolia
  (tags: blogs blogging citizenmedia CitizenJournalism journalism freespeech china)
• Syllabus / Virtual Communities and Social Networks
  Howard Rheingold's class at Stanford this fall. Great stuff.
  (tags: education newmedia syllabus community internet socialnetworking)

links for 2007-09-22

• Reinventing the Economics of News » Publish2 Blog
  "It’s not that “content wants to be free” — it’s that Internet access ISN’T free, and now that distribution and content have been unbundled, people are reluctant to pay TWICE — once for distribution (i.e. internet access) and again for conte
  (tags: media newmedia news journalism business internet newspapers)

links for 2007-09-21

• Harold Meyerson - China's Hot Stock: Orwell Inc. - washingtonpost.com
  "If it comes down to a choice in the Bush White House between capitalism and democracy, or even capitalism and our national interest, the smart money's on capitalism."
  (tags: china privacy surveillance technology security humanrights freespeech business u.s.policy)

links for 2007-09-19

• Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits: Conversational Journalism: Credibility Gained or Status Lost?
  "Might opening up to more conversation in our work -- especially public conversation -- help journalists gain credibility through transparency? I think so.."
  (tags: journalism internet journalism2.0 community transparency credibility ethics)
• Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits: Conversation Ain't What It Used to Be
  "Here are a few tools and strategies to consider about conversational, social, and online media..."
  (tags: journalism journalism2.0 community internet ideas tools credibility transparency)
• Apple - Pro - Techniques - Audio in Rich Media - Telling Stories with Sound
  "This article is the first in a series exploring how audio can be integrated with other media to create richer, more dynamic journalistic features on news websites and beyond."
  (tags: audio journalism multimedia newmedia tech tools howto apple)

links for 2007-09-18

• Times to End Charges on Web Site - New York Times
  "...reflecting a growing view in the industry that subscription fees cannot outweigh the potential ad revenue from increased traffic on a free site." When will SCMP see the light??
  (tags: newspapers advertising business journalism)
• J-Source: Ethical guidelines for editing audio
  This post by Mary McGuire lays it all out very very clearly.
  (tags: journalism audio education newmedia ethics)

links for 2007-09-17

• Democracy in China: They Just Say No
  "The United States and China can form a symbiotic relationship, one that benefits mankind and stabilizes the rest of the century, but only if the U.S. rejects cultural absolutism."
  (tags: china u.s.a. democracy u.s.policy humanrights diplomacy)
• Ethan Zuckerman at Idea Festival: Internet is not flat
  "The central question of Zuckerman’s presentation is why do we walk away from opportunities to talk to each other that Internet facilitates?"
  (tags: china internet freespeech media activism globalvoices globalization blogs blogging)