Ethan Zuckerman notes that the Chinese are starting to show up in (blog search engine) Technorati.com.
Basically, the Chinese language blogosphere appears to be exploding in popularity. And the 12 Chinese blogs listed in Technorati’s top 100 may be just the tip of the iceberg. … I estimate that MSN is hosting a minimum of [...]
Reporters Without Borders has today released a wonderful handbook of international blogging. The 84-page guide includes sections that discuss the basics of blogs and blogging terminology, and it moves quickly into a serious how-to guide for blogging anonymously and blogging successfully. This is a first for the international blogging community, and I am certain that [...]
Recently, the mega search engine Yahoo! collaborated with Chinese authorities in jailing Chinese journalist Shi Tao for allegedly distributing state secrets. Apparently Yahoo has taken the initiative to provide the journalist’s email address and IP address in order to link him to posts and emails that he was making while distributing information. Why is Yahoo [...]
There’s an old dream held by certain Englishmen of the Enlightenment: the perfect prison, the panopticon. In the panopticon, every cell can be seen into by a single guard standing in the center tower. But the prisoners can’t see into the guard tower. The prisoners begin to monitor themselves; they must assume that they are [...]