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Skype messes up, badly.
While Skype claims to have fixed the problem, the fact that TOM-Skype was enabling surveillance and privacy breaches in such a shocking manner for a significant period of time demonstrates that eBay/Skype as a company has not placed enough emphasis on pro
Are We Bloggers Journalists? Huge Question
It is indeed a loaded question in a world where technology and easy access to it has transformed the role of journalism and how it is practiced.
Can I be considered a journalist because I do have access to the necessary technology and information to expr
Internet users less tolerant for manipulation
China's netizens are becoming less tolerant for manipulation of their online conversation, says CIC-founder Sam Flemming, a leading authority on the online buzz in China in a CSB podcast. The ongoing melamine milk crisis might be a watershed on how the in
The meek shall inherit the web
The developing world missed out on much of the excitement of the initial web revolution, the dotcom boom and Web 2.0, largely because it did not have an internet infrastructure. But developing countries may now be poised to leapfrog the industrialised wor
Grouping Recent Internet Books: Internet Optimists vs. Pessimists
A number of very interesting books have been released over the past year or two which debate how the Internet is reshaping our culture and the economy.
Op-Ed Columnist - Slipping Over the Great Firewall of China
Yet the underlying trend in recent years is the opposite. For all the continuing repression, Chinese live far freer lives now than when I lived in Beijing in the 1980s and ’90s. Ordinary citizens can now easily travel abroad, choose their own housing and
Drilling a Hole into the Great Firewall of China
Rebecca MacKinnon has just published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about the true meaning and scope of the so-called Great Firewall of China, the digital fortress that keeps one sixth of the world's population in the dark of the information
The sticky issue of web security
The openness and freedom of the internet, one of its greatest strengths, has clashed with authority since the earliest days of online communication.
In letting people publish and read whatever they want, the potential for everything from lawbreaking and
Malaysia: What exactly is sedition?
It has been a tumultuous time for blogging and online expression in Malaysia. With the ongoing court cases with blogger and online news portal editor, Raja Petra Kamaruddin, as well as the detention of Malay language blogger, Abdul Bakar aka ‘Penarik Beca
Turkey is Typing….Bloggers Banning Themselves
If you are a long-time follower of the Turkish blogosphere you will have undoubtedly heard about the Turkish ban on Wordpress….and the periodic bans on YouTube, and on the social-networking widget site Slide, oh..and now on Dailymotion as well. I think th
Cyber-War and Non-State Actors
In addition to the bloody conventional war that has raged between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia (which at least appears to be at a pause, now), there has also been a less-bloody but no-less-ruthless cyber-war waged by Russia against Georgia’s tech
Misunderstanding cyberwar
There’s nothing like the term “cyberwar” to capture a reader’s attention. For those who grew up on “Wargames”, “Sneakers” or William Gibson novels, the term conjures up images of heroic hackers in shadowy basements, frantically tapping on keyboards in a l
Arab Media: Dilemmas of a free media: S Nihal Singh
Freedom of the media, as we understand it, does not exist in the Arabian Gulf. The surprise is not that this is so, but rather in how new shoots of a more tolerant and liberal era are beginning to sprout.
The Chinese Censorship Foreigners Don't See - WSJ.com
Censorship of ordinary Chinese people's electronic communications within China has changed little. Visiting reporters just aren't noticing because these forms of censorship relate to Chinese-language content they're not familiar with, hosted on Web sites
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