links for 2008-01-31

• Nart Villeneuve » Blog Archive » Degrading Transparency: Comparing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft
  "By 2008 the level of transparency has decreased. While Google’s censorship notification has remained essentially the same as it was in 2006, Yahoo! and Microsoft have altered the way in which users are notified of censorship."
  (tags: yahoo! google microsoft china search censorship freespeech)
• 信产部拟用数字代表英文域名遭质疑(图)
  " 本报记者调查发现，十进制网络相关宣传确有不少漏洞。有域名专家指出，它也不会成为中国下一代互联网。中国下一代互联网用的协议是IPv6，并不是“十进制网络”的IPv9。同时，在新闻报
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet ipv6 ipv9 icann netgovernance)
• Civic China » The Xiamen PX Project: A Succinct Summary of a Complex Issue
  "Today we provide a succinct summary of the events that became known as the Xiamen PX Project (or Incident), for those of you who are less familiar with the unfolding of the incident."
  (tags: xiamen xiamenpx protest cyber-activism internet chineseinternetresearch)
• Civic China » The Xiamen PX Experience: Crossing the River While Groping for Stones
  ",,,we are greatly dissatisfied with existing analyses that all but fail to heed to the complexities of the event. In particular the internet’s journalistic sphere was awash with frustratingly simplified narratives that told blinkered stories of a “vi
  (tags: china xiamen xiamenpx chineseinternetresearch protest cyber-activism)
• EastSouthWestNorth: Why Was The Overseas Democracy Movement Missing In The Xiamen PX Project?
  Roland translates essay by Zhang Heci who asks: "So why was the overseas democracy movement so disinterested in the Xiamen affair? And what are they really interested in?"
  (tags: xiamen xiamenpx protest democracy)
• 论隐私的模糊概念和互联网隐私碎片化 - 自投罗网|鲁公子的IT咖啡馆 - DonewsBlog
  隐私这事该捶么？当然应该。互联网对生活的侵入已经到了让人快乐并痛着的地步。笔者同样是坚定的人权至上主义者，尤其我在的城市赋予了我更多权利，让我更愿意为人权做出应有的呼吁。
  (tags: privacy china chineseinternetresearch freespeech humanrights internet)
• The Associated Press: China Steps Up Internet Video Control
  "China will take a new step Thursday to tighten control of the Internet when rules go into force limiting online video-sharing to state companies. But regulators, wary of hurting a fast-growing industry, are expected to let private operators work around t
  (tags: china video internet regulation law censorship business chineseinternetresearch)
• Asia Media Journal Online - Ketchum Explores Gaps of Media Usage
  "The way communicators dispense information is out of sync with the way consumers use media, according to Media, Myths & Realities 2007, a comprehensive survey of media usage among consumers and communications professionals..."
  (tags: media newmedia internet china chineseinternetresearch journalism)
• Media Myths and Realities | Ketchum
  "...the public is looking inward — relying not on the opinions of others via mediated outlets, but rather on their own experiences and customized needs."
  (tags: newmedia internet journalism)
• George Lakoff: What Counts as an "Issue" In the Clinton-Obama Race? - Politics on The Huffington Post
  "...real differences between the candidates reflect real differences within the party. Whoever gets the nomination, these differences will remain. It is time for the press, the pundits, the pollsters, and the political scientists to take these issues seri
  (tags: obama vote2008)
• Bob Cesca: It's Time For Progressive Bloggers To Choose A Candidate - Politics on The Huffington Post
  "...a choice between a once-in-a-generation, transformational candidate who's running parallel to our collective desire to remake the party, and, on the other side, a candidate who represents a species of Democrat that we've traditionally rejected."
  (tags: vote2008 obama)