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Asia Business Intelligence: This article describes the damage to undersea cables in detail, stating that "China Telecom, one of the mainland's main telecommunication and broadband service providers, said that at least six of its cables in the sea area 15 kilometers south of Taiwan had been cut, affecting telecommunications between the mainland and Taiwan, U.S. and Europe." (via Cosmos)
RConversation: But now it is targeting blogs in Farsi or Chinese or Arabic while the Western media is relatively open. It's the topics that hit close to home that they want to control; (via Cosmos)
Global Voices Online: The newly-born portal for progressive bloggers Bullog was booted from its host server in Inner Mongolia late last month, and relocating to Beijing hasn’t seemed to help as the site””as well as its backup home at niubo.org””has been unaccesible for the last few days. None of this has slowed down any of the bloggers it brought together, Yangcheng Evening News web editor Wen Yunchao for example, who publishes a weekly bulletin of internet affairs on his MSN Spaces blog. (via Cosmos)
广州大é“ä¸: On the other hand, standing back and saying nothing while Western companies contribute to Chinese Internet censorship isn't acceptable to me either. Companies need to stop using the excuse that effectively says "the Internet will make them free in the long run so it doesn't matter so much what we do in the short run." But meanwhile Americans should not act as if our own country is some kind of free speech gold standard - as, unfortunately, some people especially in Washington have been prone to do. (via Cosmos)
Elizabeth in China: In contrast, Reporters Without Borders stated on 12 October that English Wikipedia appeared entirely unblocked, including the article on the 1989 protests, but that the Chinese language version was unaccessible for most Chinese. The advocacy organization criticized the government shift as meant “to appease its critics abroad while continuing to censor the information available to its own population,” (via Cosmos)
”¦My heart’s in Accra: John Kennedy, reporting from Guangzhao, is watching his Chinese blogger friends get a lesson in network georgraphy as they discover which services do and don’t function after the cable break. Andrew Lih is in Singapore, and has the results of his tests on different blogging and email services, as well as other net-dependent services like Skype. (via Cosmos)
Wikipedia Weekly: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Post in Audio, MP3, Episodes Add a comment (via Cosmos)
Daveydweeb.blog: The Wikimedia Foundation, which is responsible for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews (and others), uses the funds from such fundraising drives to pay for hosting (you would not believe how much that costs…), to pay their four employees, and so on [...]'>Wikipedia’s next fundraiser will have an exciting twist (via Cosmos)
[Johnstodderinexile.wordpress.com] 2005 December « From the Desert to the Sea”¦: I finished a trip that started in Syracuse, where I rented an Olds, drove north until I hit the border shared by New York and Canada, put on a couple of community meetings where my client would explain the baffling new US-VISIT program, then drove through the Mohawk reservation and some of the bleakest farm country I’ve ever seen, then down into Plattsburg. After another meeting the next morning, my clients and I drove our cars to catch the ferry.
[Pazpeacesalaamshalom.blogspot.com] Paz Peace Salaam Shalom: On March 14, 1979, twenty-five years before I met Café on A co-creators Armando Vázquez and Debbie De Vries, a pre-dawn earthquake off the coast of Guerrero rumbled through Mexico City and destroyed much of the Iberoamericana Univeristy where I worked. Had it struck a couple of hours later, the campus would have been teeming with students, teachers and staff.
[Blogs.law.harvard.edu] 2.0 link0 Nate Knows Nada: Rayleejun link1 "The most courageous ...: (If you're an atheist who votes Republican, there's a good bet that -- like gay Republicans -- you've had to make some sort of peace with the fact that you are an oddly fitting minority in your choice of political associates.) The Democrats have a more diverse religious underpinning than the Republicans (as I'd also wager that you'll find a wider range among the stances of religious believers in the Democratic party), and so their median religious belief is likely more to the middle, where the Republicans' is further right.
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