I was interviewed earlier this week by the BBC Radio Five program Pods and Blogs. We discussed my new book, The Blogging Revolution, the growing tendency of Western governments to try and censor the web and the role of Western multinationals, such as Skype, to assist the Chinese regime in its filtering process.
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The Blogging Revolution: from Iran to Cuba
My following interview by Hamid Tehrani for Global Voices was published today: Antony Loewenstein, a Sydney-based freelance journalist and blogger, has recently published his new book: The Blogging Revolution. This book talks about the impact of blogging on six countries: Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, China and Cuba. He says: I chose the six countries…
Getting the masses involved
Are blogs good for democracy? A recent Yale university political union debated the issue.
Rolling in cash
There is money to be made from blogging: Blogs with 100,000 or more unique visitors a month earn an average of $75,000 annually—though that figure is skewed by the small percentage of blogs that make more than $200,000 a year. The estimates from a 2007… Business Week article are older but juicier: The… LOLcat empire rakes in…
Vibewire on The Blogging Revolution
Vibewire is one of Australia’s finest online youth portals (I used to write a regular column for them years ago.) I was recently interviewed by one of their writers, Jacqui Dent, about my book, The Blogging Revolution: Blogging is being used increasingly to speak out against oppression in authoritarian regimes and speak up amidst mainstream…
What Iranian bloggers are saying about the US election
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Antony Loewenstein, author of The Blogging Revolution, writes: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in New York last week and conducted a number of fascinating interviews that confirmed his chameleon nature. He told Democracy Now! — after expressing typical bigotry against homosexuals… — that his country would accept…
The Melbourne Age reviews The Blogging Revolution
The following book review of The Blogging Revolution appeared in the Melbourne Age on September 20: Antony Loewenstein’s journey through the blogging world brings some surprises, says Thuy On. In 2007, journalist Antony Loewenstein travelled to some of the world’s hot spots to meet up with bloggers, activists and dissidents whose cyber activities challenge the…
The Podcast Network on blogging
The Podcast Network has around 500,000 listeners in Australia, the US and internationally. I was interviewed this morning about my book, The Blogging Revolution, the web in repressive regimes and why the Western media must do a better job when reporting the rest of the globe.