links for 2008-07-03

• Whatever » Reminder: There’s No Actual Office for “President of the Left”
  "I’m fundamentally unsurprised to discover that Barack Obama, who has been in politics for a number of years, is a politician. And a politician who wants to win as big as he can."
  (tags: election politics vote2008 obama)
• On The Media: Transcript of "Online China" (June 27, 2008)
  Me and Jeremy Goldkorn, interviewed for NPR's "On the Media"
  (tags: media china internet censorship privacy surveillance freespeech csr)
• Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom | Threat Level from Wired.com
  "Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday."
  (tags: copyright google youtube viacom privacy freespeech security)
• Top Print and Web Designs - editorsweblog
  "The newspaper websites most often cited were elpais.com (Spain), guardian.co.uk (United Kingdom), globeandmail.com (Canada), 24sata.hr (Croatia), and Times Online (United Kingdom)." Interesting, none from the U.S.
  (tags: newmedia newspapers internet webdesign journalism)
• Associated Press vs. Drudge Retort and blogosphere: facts and outcome - editorsweblog
  "This is the real issue at stake: how fast can the law be adapted to the reality of the Web, in order to avoid costly conflicts over subjective interpretations of "fair use" of content?"
  (tags: AP DMCA journalism IP copyright news blogs bloggers blogging law internet newmedia)
• The Hindu : Front Page : IT professional lands in prison for no fault of his
  He spent seven days in lock-up and 43 days in jail; A mobile phone operator gave his IP address to Pune police; He is fighting to get compensation from company
  (tags: india law privacy surveillance csr internet mobile business)
• Obama Voters Protest His Switch on Telecom Immunity - NYTimes.com
  "Senator Barack Obama’s decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants has led to an intense backlash among some of his mos
  (tags: obama vote2008 privacy surveillance csr law congress politics)
• Wikipedia Chinese version unblocked
  "Perhaps this is part of the Olympic polishing project, or just the Net Nanny's nap time. Whatever the cause, it's good news. "
  (tags: wikipedia china chineseinternetresearch censorship)
• So, how do the Chinese Bloggers avoid the "censorship" | IfGoGo.com
  "Yes, censorship takes a lot of trouble to bloggers, but there are many funny ways to avoid the censorship. Let me introduce some of the methods..."
  (tags: censorship china chineseinternetresearch bloggers blogging blogs freespeech)
• A Reflection of Power | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com
  Next Media's Jimmy Lai says Beijing is interfering more and more deeply in Hong Kong affairs.
  (tags: hongkong china politics media publishing freespeech)
• Stephen Vines: Hong Kong’s schizophrenic China patriotism - Thomas Crampton
  "Beijing should celebrate the territory’s uniqueness rather than fear it, Vines said."
  (tags: hongkong china nationalism politics freespeech media)
• Yet Another Twitter Badge - Twitter Balloon | korelab
  Create a twitter badge for your blog or website...
  (tags: blogging tools newmedia flash twitter social)
• Human Powered Editorial Processes
  Discussion of blogged.com: "a smart approach to making people aware of their service- editors rate the sites and a note is sent to the blogger notifying them and providing a badge for their blog- and who doesn't like to see themselves in an editorial huma
  (tags: blogs blogging journalism editing journalism2.0 newmedia citizenmedia internet)
• The Standard - ZTE seals Ethiopia deal
  "ZTE, like its local rival Huawei Technologies and others in the industry, have long established their businesses in emerging areas such as Africa and India. "
  (tags: ZTE huawei internet africa china)
• China Media Project » Blog Archive » “Information openness” a growing topic for China’s media
  "while the lasting effects of the National Ordinance on Openness of Government Information remain to be seen, there can little doubt that media have used the very fact of the law’s existence to advance discussion of its spirit — the value of timely in
  (tags: china news journalism freespeech chineseinternetresearch)
• Obama's Brain Trust : Rolling Stone
  "The candidate's handpicked team of top advisers has raised more than $250 million, outmaneuvered the Clintons and created a formidable grass-roots political machine. So why doesn't anyone know their names?"
  (tags: election2008 obama politics)
• techPresident – Anti-Telecom Immunity Group Tops MyBarackObama.com
  "will the Obama campaign thank the group for pointing out the error of the senator's ways? Will they reiterate his stand in favor of FISA as written? Will they revoke the MyBO logins of anyway who had anything to do with this whole thing? Stay tuned."
  (tags: obama vote2008 election2008 politics socialnetworking cyber-activism protest)
• techPresident – PdF2008: Edwards, Lessig, Zittrain, Pesce Keynotes Are Up on Pdf.Blip.tv
  videos of plenary sessions from "Personal Democracy Forum 2008: Rebooting the System"
  (tags: politics internet cyber-activism)
• Judge Protects YouTube’s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves
  "I say this with the utmost respect, but Judge Stanton is a moron. And Google simply cannot hand this data over without facing a class action lawsuit of staggering proportions."
  (tags: privacy surveillance viacom youtube video google law copyright censorship freespeech)
• Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  "The Court's erroneous ruling is a set-back to privacy rights, and will allow Viacom to see what you are watching on YouTube. We urge Viacom to back off this overbroad request and Google to take all steps necessary to challenge this order and protect the
  (tags: law privacy youtube surveillance google viacom freespeech csr)
• techPresident – The FISA Protest and myBO: Can We Talk? Can They Listen?
  "we've never before had a national campaign create an open platform for mobilizing supporters AND THEN seen a salient chunk of those supporters openly use that platform to challenge the candidate on a policy position."
  (tags: politics obama vote2008 election2008 FISA protest freespeech privacy)
• Testimony before the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission: Hearing on Access to Information and Media Control in the People’s Republic of China - Statement of Randolph Kluver
  "... very few Westerners understand why Chinese react as they do to our comments...very few Chinese believe our professed goals of our criticisms, and do not believe our professed ignorance of the historical dominance of the West over China."
  (tags: china media olympics u.s.a. humanrights freespeech)
• Global Voices and Conflict Early Warning « iRevolution
  "Global Voices is a far more effective local information and response network than FAST ever was...."
  (tags: globalvoices ideas blogging blogs internet citizenmedia)