My latest New Matilda column, co-written with Independent Australian Jewish Voices blogger Michael Brull, responds to predictable charges of political bias by the Zionist lobby: Labor MP Michael Danby’s accusation of antisemitism against two Jewish writers is a false and dangerous misuse of that term, write the accused, Michael Brull and Antony Loewenstein Sometimes, people…
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Blogging the lower classes
ActionAid Australia has a new program that sends bloggers to developing countries “to give poverty a voice.” Blogging can’t just be written by the elite for the elite; others have to get a look in.
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People make revolutions
I wrote before about the dangers of over-playing the significance of the web in Iran. It’s hard not to moved, though, by this Iranian blogger: I will take part in the rally tomorrow. It might become violent. Perhaps I may be one of the people who is meant to die. I am listening to all…
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They blog, I blog, we all blog
The following review of my book The Blogging Revolution appears in the latest edition of Harvard University’s Nieman Reports: An Australian blogger interviews dissident bloggers worldwide, and in his book he explains why what they do matters and who is trying to stop them. By Danny Schechter I am a blogger, a media critic, and…
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Don’t wait for the web to bring democracy
As Iran teeters and the Supreme Leader warns protestors, Zionists, foreigners and the media to back off – he would be comical if this wasn’t so serious – many in the West should be cautious about heralding the Twitter Revolution. As I write in my book The Blogging Revolution, new technology doesn’t on its own…
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Can the West not intrude?
Jordanian blogger Hareega on the situation in Iran: Let Iranians vote for whoever they want to, and if they’re taking the streets and are going bring down Ahmadinajhad let them do it themselves.
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When the power of the crowd can work
How has the Huffington Post been reporting the rapidly shifting changes in Iran? Blogs, YouTube, Twitter, sources, tips and a lot of caffeine: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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Blogger forced to reveal his identity
I was interviewed before on ABC Radio’s World Today program: PETER CAVE: To some people the appeal of the internet is getting information out in the public domain without revealing where it’s come from. But that could change after a court in the United Kingdom ruled that bloggers have no right to anonymity. A policeman…
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They blog what they see in front of their eyes
Harvard University’s Berkman Centre (where I gave a presentation last year on my book, The Blogging Revolution) have released a new report mapping the Arabic blogosphere. Some key findings that suggest Barack Obama will need to match his pretty words with far more than rhetoric: The one political issue that clearly concerns bloggers across the…
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All we know is that the noise is growing
The latest on the crisis in Iran. Violence, state brutality, Twitter and resistance.