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Blogging every day keeps the doctor away
At least some British journalists understand where new media is going: Journalists in the UK are more likely to be producing video content and blogging as part of their workload than their European counterparts, a new survey has suggested. According to the European Digital Journalism Study, 61 per cent of UK respondents said their publications…
The next chapter of Salam Pax
Years after Salam Pax, aka The Baghdad Blogger, became world famous for writing about life under Saddam and the American invasion, he’s now living in London, studying journalism and helping to launch new online initiative, Mind the Globe. Here’s his post from late May: You want to know why Muqtada is so popular? Look at…
This is what war does to a man
A US Marine emails blogger Andrew Sullivan about the use of torture in Iraq – he claims he never saw Americans do it but Iraqi troops was a different story altogether – and his feelings towards the occupied nation: To tell you the absolute truth, I had many moments in Iraq when I could see…
More repression for the masses
How Google, Yahoo and Microsoft assist censorship of the internet in China.
The online fight-back
With a truce between Hamas and Israel coming into force today, the sad likelihood of it lasting is virtually nil, but at least death and destruction will be on hold. For now (until Israel decides to properly re-invade Gaza.) Meanwhile, Palestinian militants are taking their battle into cyberspace: The Palestinian Islamist movement, Islamic Jihad, has…
Dissent with a Chinese face
My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: The Olympic Games will show the world a different kind of China, writes Antony Loewenstein During last weekend’s Chinese Internet Research Conference in Hong Kong, Hu Yong, Associate Professor at Peking University, said that after the Sichuan earthquake, many…
Bearing the brunt
Bloggers are on the front line against repressive regimes across the world: More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report. Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University of Washington annual report. In 2007 three times as…
Real-time apology
The new face of American justice? Two Florida teenagers who threw a drink in a drive-thru worker’s face have been forced by a judge to post an apology on YouTube. But will the punishment work?