links for 2009-07-01

• Help us to map internet censorship | Technology | guardian.co.uk
  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?"
  (tags: crowdsource guardian internet filtering censorship access igf opennet)
• Ottawa needs a strategy for cyberwar - Full Comment
  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
  (tags: internet filtering foi igf iran digital censorship opennet rondeibert)
• Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds | Online Journalism Blog
  RSS v Twitter
  (tags: newspapres twitter rss feeds journalism news digital internet future futureofnews)
• CHina delays internet filtering plans - Radio 4 Today prog
  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.
  (tags: bbc today china internet filtering IGF radio4)
• YouTube - reporterscenter's Channel
  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.
  (tags: youtube google citizenjournalism journalism digital internet future)
• BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - The Reith Lectures: The Reith Lectures 2009
  A New Citizenship: Professor Michael Sandel delivers four lectures about the prospects of a new politics of the common good.
  (tags: reith lecture bbc sandel politics moral citizenship)
• Nick Ferrari quits Iran Press TV over ‘bias’ after Iranian election - Times Online
  File under "should know better"
  (tags: presstv iran media pressfreedom)