links for 2006-12-05
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December 4, 2006|
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"Hoping to turn the millions of people with digital cameras and camera phones into photojournalists, Yahoo and Reuters are introducing a new effort to showcase photographs and video of news events submitted by the public."
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"The challenge for Yahoo will be to get enough users to submit relevant and usable content - a problem it knows all too well after a failed effort to partner with Al Gore's Current TV."
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Ann Condi reports on the apathy many Chinese white collar workers have toward Internet censorship, and concludes: "What Internet activism there may be in China, it is not coming from the upwardly-mobile Chinese white-collar workers. "
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"China has decided to substantially liberalize restrictions on coverage by foreign journalists ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the government announced Friday."
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"NEWS Corporation's MySpace.com is in talks to bring the social-networking site to China with trade publisher IDG's Chinese venture arm and former China Netcom Group chief executive Edward Tian, the Wall Street Journal has reported."
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"Iran yesterday shut down access to some of the world's most popular websites. Users were unable to open popular sites including Amazon.com and YouTube following instructions to service providers to filter them."
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"Reporters Without Borders voiced alarm that Malaysia could introduce repressive legislation on the Internet after Science and Technology Minister, Kong Cho Ha, said the government planned new rules to block its malicious use and prevent bloggers posting
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"blogging is a social phenomenon with Asians primarily blogging as a means to maintain and build their social connections and to express themselves." (hat tip to Sami)
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Here's a belated link to the press release about the Asia blogging report, giving more details on its findings. I'm trying to track down a copy of the actual report...
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Jeff Ooi observes: "Equally significant is the indication derived from the study that blogs are impressively a trusted source of information, with half of the respondents believing that blog content is as trustworthy as traditional media."
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"A survey of 25,000 MSN portal visitors across seven Asian markets - Hong Kong, India, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand - found that almost half of those online in Asia have a blog, and 40 percent of these bloggers are blogging for more th
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