Friend's blogs Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/images/fd.gif http://feed.informer.com/ http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/CGKOSV135O.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/06/090706crbo_books_gladwell?printable=true">Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker</a>: Mildly critical review of Anderson’s new book. http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/133088134 Internet Politics - Andrew Chadwick http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/133088134? Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:49 GMT <p><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/30/content_11628335.htm">Xinhua is reporting</a> that the MIIT in China has decided to delay implementation of the Green Dam Youth Escort software program. (HT: Rebecca MacKinnon, who has been doing a terrific job documenting the proposed Green Dam regulation from the start on her <a href="http://rconversation.blogs.com/">blog</a>.)</p> <p>Much to their credit, leaders like Commerce Secretary Gary Locke of the Obama Administration have been <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090625/ts_nm/us_usa_china_trade_tech">pushing back</a> on the proposed Chinese regulations on trade-related grounds.  Today's announcement from Xinhua suggests that perhaps reason has prevailed and the push-back has been effective.</p> <p>Here's hoping implementation of the Green Dam software mandate(-or-is-it?) is indefinitely delayed. The software had all manner of problems, which we at the ONI, among others, <a href="http://opennet.net/chinas-green-dam-the-implications-government-control-encroaching-home-pc">documented</a>. And the notion of requiring, or even just “strongly encouraging,” implementation of a given software program on all computers would set a terrible precedent in terms of the ability for the state to control communications of its citizens.</p> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/06/30/green-dam-implementation-delayed-in-china/ John Palfrey http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/06/30/green-dam-implementation-delayed-in-china/? Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:51 GMT <p>The <a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/orders/courtorders/062909zor.pdf">Supreme Court says:</a> “08-448 CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., ET AL. V. CSC HOLDINGS, INC., ET AL.: The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. The Chief Justice and Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.” (The Solicitor General <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/05/30/solicitor-generals-brief-in-cablevision-case/">wrote a terrific brief</a> urging the Court to take this approach earlier this year.)</p> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/06/29/scotus-denies-cert-in-cablevision-good-call/ John Palfrey http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/06/29/scotus-denies-cert-in-cablevision-good-call/? Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:06 GMT <a href="http://www.bigissuescotland.com/features/view/89">The Big Issue - Reclaim the tweets</a> http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/132170980 Internet Politics - Andrew Chadwick http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/132170980? Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:33 GMT http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/132170192 Internet Politics - Andrew Chadwick http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/132170192? Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:30 GMT <p>Congratulations to the Berkman-affiliated <a href="http://webecologyproject.org">WebEcology</a> project on <a href="http://webecologyproject.org/WEP-twitterFINAL.pdf">their near-instant empirical study</a> of tweets on the Iran election. They've tracked more than 2 million Tweets over the past 18 days.</p> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/06/26/webecology-study-on-tweets-in-the-iran/ John Palfrey http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/06/26/webecology-study-on-tweets-in-the-iran/? Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:29 GMT <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/24/astroturfing-advertising-twitter-politics/print">Touching up the grassroots</a> http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/129947330 Internet Politics - Andrew Chadwick http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/129947330? Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:10 GMT <p>The New York Times' Brian Stelter and Brad Stone have a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/world/middleeast/23censor.html?hpw">very thoughtful piece </a>in the paper today about the changing role of censorship in an Internet age, with references to ONI work. The final point, made in the story by Ethan Zuckerman, draws an appropriate connection to the Green Dam story in China from a few weeks ago.</p> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/06/23/nyt-story-on-iran-elections-and-technology-with-linkage-to-green-dam/ John Palfrey http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/06/23/nyt-story-on-iran-elections-and-technology-with-linkage-to-green-dam/? Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:47 GMT A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend an excellent workshop on new media and political engagement at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Ismael Peña-López, an attendee, was live blogging the event. <a href="http://ictlogy.net/20090528-citizen-politics-i-jordi-segarra-new-and-old-strategies-of-political-communication/">Here is the excellent result</a> (note: this is the first of several entries. Scroll up for the rest). http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/127551908 Internet Politics - Andrew Chadwick http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/127551908? Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:51 GMT <a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/news/iranelectiontwitterrss.html">Apple - Downloads - Dashboard Widgets - Iran Election Twitter RSS</a> http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/127473660 Internet Politics - Andrew Chadwick http://www.andrewchadwick.com/post/127473660? Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:42 GMT