links for 2008-06-26

• @Future of Journalism: Jeff Jarvis on 10 questions we should be asking now | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk
  Jeff Jarvis outlines 10 questions that news organizations should be asking now.
  (tags: newmedia journalism news2.0 journalism2.0 innovation newspapers news community guardian media)
• PBS Teachers | learning.now . Random Acts of Journalism | PBS
  "there’s a role educators can be playing to help prep students to be better online citizens, including acting as citizen journalists to document what’s going on in their community, promoting what’s working and demanding fixes to what’s not."
  (tags: education digitaldemocracy digitaldivide citizenmedia CitizenJournalism newmedia democracy)
• Kaiser Kuo: A Funeral Dirge for 56.com?
  "Sequoia was told that the company had been given multiple content-related warnings, but that the problems had gone unaddressed. The upshot is that the ban is not going to be lifted."
  (tags: 56.com video china censorship internet SARFT regulation)
• Outblaze Newsletter » Hello Kitty MMORPG storms through blogosphere
  Quoting Kotaku: “Only one MMO could possibly release World of Warcraft’s death-grip on the massively multiplayer gaming market - Hello Kitty Online.”
  (tags: hellokitty sanrio MMORPG outblaze gaming)
• Blood & Treasure: authoritarian deliberation
  "Modern authoritarianism is a basically centrist proposition; bound up with and justified by a combination of patriotism and performance legitimacy rather than ideology. It operates on a spectrum that allows some forms of participation and debate."
  (tags: authoritarianism ideology ideas politics censorship freespeech)
• Why Media Gets Community Wrong - One Man and His Blog
  "Those blogs that do really well are those that are aware of there being a wider web world outside our sites' confines and which talk directly to the readers. Those whose traffic is abysmal are those who show no awareness of a wider conversation around th
  (tags: blogging blogs community journalism media journalism2.0 newmedia)
• On The Media: Transcript of "Journalism With Chinese Characteristics" (June 20, 2008)
  "There is real investigative reporting in China, it’s just not done under a free press flag. Instead, practitioners mind an unstated set of rules, keeping themselves safe by employing tactics like using excessive jargon and exploiting government rivalri
  (tags: censorship journalism china freespeech internet chineseinternetresearch)
• EastSouthWestNorth: De-Politicization and Pan-Politicization of Xiaonei.com
  The string of political events this year is turning the website Xiaonei.com for Chinese university students into a political hotbed.
  (tags: china internet politics web2.0 socialnetworking chineseinternetresearch nationalism)
• PressThink: Migration Point for the Press Tribe
  " "Like reluctant migrants everywhere, the people in the news tribe have to decide what to take with them, when to leave, where to land. They have to figure out what is essential to their way of life... They have to ask if what they know is portable."
  (tags: citizenmedia CitizenJournalism newmedia journalism press journalism2.0 internet)
• Nart Villeneuve - Perspectives on Transparency
  "it is rather remarkable that Baidu has introduced a consistent censorship notification mechanism....It also suggests an increasing openness within China concerning censorship and informs Chinese Internet users.."
  (tags: china censorship search baidu chineseinternetresearch freespeech internet csr)