Relevant to my post below, there is an excellent site that measures restrictions and restriction attempts against the Internet. This isn't done by a bunch of cranks, it is a project sponsored by Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Toronto, called the OpenNet Initiative. On it there are country-by-country reports [...]
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Measuring Internet Restrictions
Posted in Internet on January 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Press freedom in Action
Posted in Press freedom on January 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
We talk a lot sometimes about freedom of the press in what are usually called the "Western Democracies" (plus a few others like India). We take such freedom as part of our birthright but I don't think we often realize what it means — how it plays out operationally, in real life. This [...]
Still Relevant After 170 Years
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Here’s from a recent Times editorial, issues that are right on the mark in these days of Presidential eavesdropping and subpoenas against Google to obtain seemingly limitless access to records of the personal behavior of private US citizens:
During the War of 1812, an angry mob smashed the printing presses of a Baltimore newspaper that dared [...]
Civility! Not!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
One of the attributes of the current highly-polarized political environment is the gradual degeneration of polite discourse. And, it starts at the top. For example, the current ruling party suggests that people hold different opinions than theirs are not just wrong, they are in fact traitors giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Sorry, [...]
Collaboration
Posted in Internet on January 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I'm seeing a lot of software and web-based services lately, aimed at supporting groups . Some of these are social: FaceBook and MySpace come to mind. Classmates is the grand-daddy of these. Flickr is a site that allows people to share photos, indexed among other things by self-assigned categories, and Delicious provides a [...]
Favorite Links
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Here are a few of my most highly-used links:
http://tech.nytimes.com/top/news/technology/cybertimesnavigator/index.html : the New York Times’ own newsroom source link page, what their reporters use. Doesn’t get more authoritative than this.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/ : Bruce Schneier’s take on Internet security issues, always relevant, an every-day read.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks : The Association of Computing Machinery’s Forum on Risks to the Public [...]
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