Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Cuban Bloggers Challenging Government Censorship
Yoni Sanchez 's Generacion Y.
Miriam Celaya's sin EVAsión
Readings on Cuba & the Internet:
Claudia Cadelo, "Cuba: Bloggers Gather In Spite of the Challenges," Global Voices Online, January 1, 2009.
Edan Ring, "Cuba's next revolution," Haaretz, January 10, 2009.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), "Anyone can browse the Internet... unless they are Cuban," May 20, 2009.
Committee to Protect Journalists Special Report: "Chronicling Cuba, bloggers offer fresh hope," September 10, 2009.
Video on Cuban Bloggers & Internet Access in Cuba:
This Video was posted on YouTube and also on Reporters Without Borders shows a Cuban citizen trying to access the Internet at the hotel Melia Cohiba on May 9, 2009. The YouTube desciption attributes it to a cuban blogger, Yoni Sanchez of Generacion Y.
"Restricción del acceso a Internet para cubanos en el hotel Melia Cohíba"
Description posted on YouTube:
"Ayer sábado 9 de mayo, me fui al hotel Meliá Cohiba para comprobar si siguen las limitaciones de acceso a Internet para cubanos. Varios amigos me habían dicho que la medida limitadora se había echado atrás pero quería comprobarlo por mí misma. De manera que Reinaldo y yo fuimos e hicimos este pequeño video.
La turista que aparenta leer el Granma soy yo. Yoani Sánchez, Generacion Y."
Committee to Protect Journalists Video Report on Cuban Bloggers:
Blogueros Cubanos from Committee to Protect Journalists on Vimeo.
Labels: blogging, Censorship, Cuba, Internet
Net Control: Resources for News about Internet Censorship around the World
OpenNet Initiative [Read "About ONI"] The ONI Newsreel compiles the latest news about internet censorship and surveillance from around the world.
Reporters Without Borders has an "Internet" page with all of the latest reports of internet censorship.
Labels: Censorship, Internet, links, Net Control
People's Republic of the Grass Mud Horse?
A video of the "Grass Mud Horse Song" became a big hit in China in January of 2009. Some analysts have interpreted this song as a protest against censorship. According to Michael Wines,
"The grass-mud horse is an example of something that, in China’s authoritarian system, passes as subversive behavior. Conceived as an impish protest against censorship, the foul-named little horse has not merely made government censors look ridiculous, although it has surely done that.
It has also raised real questions about China’s ability to stanch the flow of information over the Internet — a project on which the Chinese government already has expended untold riches, and written countless software algorithms to weed deviant thought from the world’s largest cyber-community."You can read the rest of Michael Wines article here:
Michael Wines, “A Dirty Pun Tweaks China’s Online Censors,” New York Times, March 12, 2009.
Watch “The Song of ‘Grass Mud Horse (草泥马)’" Video (Warning Explicit Captions.)
More articles about the Grass Mud Horse:
Xiao Qiang, "Music Video: The Song of the Grass Mud Horse 《草泥马之歌》" China Digital Times, February 8, 2009.
Oiwan Lam, “China: More on Grass Mud Horse,” Global Voices Online, March 2, 2009.
Oiwan Lam, “China: Goodbye Grass Mud Horse,” Global Voices Online, March 18, 2009.
CNN Report explaining 'Grass Mud Horse' phenomenon, featuring Rebecca MacKinnon
Grass Mud Horse Cartoon Video on YouTube:
Labels: Censorship, China, Grass Mud Horse, Internet, Net Control
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
2018: Life on the Net: Lessig, Ito, Rosedale
The "2018: Life on the Net" panel from Fortune Brainstorm featured:
Lawrence Lessig (Author, Stanford Law School)
Joichi Ito (Creative Commons CEO, Six Apart)
Philip Rosedale (founder Linden Labs, Second Life)
Moderator: Quincy Smith (CBS Interactive CEO.)
Labels: Internet
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Behind the Golden Shield: Internet in China
China Digital Times: Video: Sino-Korean Online Gaming Tensions, (October 8, 2008.)
Description: "This video of a Korean gamer’s rant against Chinese gamers and Chinese civilization in general has been making the rounds in Chinese cyberspace."
Journeyman Pictures video about "Internet Addiction--China" (January, 2008)
Description: "Pressure on Chinese children to succeed is turning them into reclusive computer junkies. The Internet has become the only place they can escape. "
Journeyman Pictures video about "The Great Fire Wall of China" (May, 2008)
Description: "China has the most sophisticated censorship and Internet surveillance in the world. But despite this autocratic control some guerrilla bloggers are still managing to get their message through. "
"Virtual Carnivores," China's Online Vigilantes, The Economist, (October 2, 2008)
Description: "Untold legions police the Internet in China to block information deemed politically threatening. But the world’s biggest online population still has a wild streak. Worries are growing about Internet vigilantes who mount “renrou sousuo”, or “human-flesh searches”, to ferret out perceived wrongdoers.""
Labels: China, Internet, surveillance
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Future of Advertising According to Google's Nikesh Arora
Nikesh Arora (President EMEA Operations Google) discussing "the future of advertising" at the IESE Business School in Madrid in June of 2008
Labels: Advertising, Google, Internet, Marketing
Vinton Cerf @ Google Zurich on Future of the Internet
Vinton G. Cerf, aka the "father of the Internet," is the co-designerof the TCP/IP protocols that made the Internet possible and former Chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He now works for Google as a vice president and "Chief Internet Evangelist."
Listen to Cerf discuss the history and future of the Internet in this speech given in November of 2007 at Google's Zurich headquarters.
Labels: Google, Internet, Vinton Cerf
