links for 2009-07-05
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Martin M outs the Telegraph for cod bylines. The comments are good too. But he's right, these days, why bother?
July 05, 2009
July 01, 2009
links for 2009-07-01
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Latest Guardian experiment with Crowdsourcing: "We think there's more to be done on internet censorship - specifically, to point to the "grey areas" where we don't know enough about what governments do. Do you know?"
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According to the latest estimates of the OpenNet Initiative, more than 30 countries block access to some kind of information online. What is most disturbing is that many of them are increasingly doing so using a variety of subtle, indirect and flexible forms of controls: denial of service attacks against sources of information deemed strategically threatening, sometimes contracted out to criminal organizations
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RSS v Twitter
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China is to delay a controversial plan requiring all new computers sold in the country to be equipped with an internet filtering software, state media says. Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones considers what this decision means for the Chinese government. Journalist Isabel Hilton, who edits chinadialogue.net, explains whether plans for the filter, called Green Dam Youth Escort, will be resurrected.
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The YouTube Reporters' Center is a new resource to help you learn more about how to report the news. It features some of the nation's top journalists and news organizations sharing instructional videos with tips and advice for better reporting.
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A New Citizenship: Professor Michael Sandel delivers four lectures about the prospects of a new politics of the common good.
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File under "should know better"
Internet emerging as theatre of conflict
(Media feature by BBC Monitoring on 30 June )
A dispute over a Russian war memorial in Estonia in April 2007, which escalated into a diplomatic row between the two nations, is regarded by NATO as the first outbreak of cyber warfare.
The internet is emerging as a theatre in warfare, with the conflict between Georgia and Russia in 2008 being matched by attacks on internet services in both countries.
The aftermath of the June 2009 Iranian presidential election, where street protests coincided with attacks on websites belonging to Iranian government, media and opposition groups, brought the issue of the internet as a theatre of conflict to the fore.
Governments are now taking cyber security seriously, with the UK announcing its strategy on 25 June 2009, while reports have emerged of a disagreement between the USA and Russia over a treaty for cyber warfare.
Emergence of cyber warfare
The dispute between Russia and Estonia over the decision to move a Russian war memorial in Tallinn in April 2007 resulted in a month-long attack on Estonian web assets belonging to both government and businesses, forcing NATO to consider cyber warfare as a new type of asymmetric conflict with the potential to damage crucial state infrastructure.
On 30 April 2007, Estonian newspaper Eesti Paevaleht quoted Minister of Justice Rein Lang as saying that many of the attacks were coming from Russian state-owned servers.
Subsequent research showed that attacks may also have originated from Russian private web users, ethnic Russians in Estonia and from the wider diaspora. Estonian business newspaper Aripaev noted on 6 August 2007 that the means to attack Estonian web servers was being sold on Russian web forums for up to 150 dollars.
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June 29, 2009
links for 2009-06-29
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Experts on Iran who have monitored the channel’s programming on the Internet say it has succeeded in a difficult task, giving a tempered account of developments that have been deeply divisive among Iranians
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The history of rock writing begins around 1966 when, with what was once mere "pop" being taken seriously, the American writer Paul Williams published a journal-cum-fanzine titled Crawdaddy, which aimed to bring to rock music the kind of cerebral writing long devoted to folk and jazz. Other currents were swirling around the more educated bits of the US counterculture, among them the expressive precedents set by the Beats and the possibilities suggested by New Journalism.
June 26, 2009
links for 2009-06-26
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David Schlesinger talks to IOC about the new realities of media: the only path is to embrace the change and embrace the new. Longing for the ways of the past will not work.
We in the traditional media and you in the IOC must concentrate our efforts on defining and developing that which really adds value.
That means understanding what really can be exclusive and what really is insightful.
It means truly exploiting real expertise.It means, to my earlier point, using all the multimedia tools available and all the smart multimedia journalists to provide a package so much stronger than any one individual strand.
It means working with the mobile phone and digital camera and social media-enabled public and not against them.
June 25, 2009
links for 2009-06-25
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Marc ambinder - excellent post suggesting the panoply of sources we have about Iran as an intelligence service to the masses.
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Nieman verdict on Guardian crowdsourcing experiment on MPs expenses
June 24, 2009
links for 2009-06-24
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At one time, authoritarian regimes could draw a shroud around the events in their countries by simply snipping the long-distance phone lines and restricting a few foreigners. But this is the new arena of censorship in the 21st century, a world where cellphone cameras, Twitter accounts and all the trappings of the World Wide Web have changed the ancient calculus of how much power governments actually have to sequester their nations from the eyes of the world and make it difficult for their own people to gather, dissent and rebel.
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Graph of internet filtering in Iran
June 23, 2009
links for 2009-06-23
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Story behind the kidnap and escape of NYT reporter
June 22, 2009
links for 2009-06-22
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Review of live blogging and running commentaries on breaking news, with recommendations
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The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.
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The urban, middle-class youngsters might not like the rules imposed on them by the clerics who run their country, but they have learned how to live with them. After all, 60 per cent of the population has never known any Iran other than the 30-year-old Islamic republic.
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The mob may be an evil, but even in the 21st century it may be a democratic necessity.
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"There is, however, one thing our governments can and should do, without needing to say anything in direct relation to the authorities in Iran. This is to maintain and enhance the 21st-century global information infrastructure which allows Iranians – whichever candidate they support – to keep in touch with each other and to find out what is really happening in their own country. "
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"The overriding purpose of the Iraq inquiry announced by Gordon Brown last week is to restore public confidence in governmental decision-making. To achieve this, it needs to be conducted by independent individuals who reflect a range of views necessary to address the issues and in a politically balanced way."
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boinbboing aggregation of sites and analysis re Iran
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Biases and social media - One of the reasons MSM outlets are so focused on social media is that they’re not able to deploy reporters to cover these protests. In some cases, the majority of reporting from the ground is coming from social media. It’s worth asking what the biases might be in amplifying those social media reports.
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Roger Cohen on Twitter, Iran and lessons thereof
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