After the recent, good news in the US that “net neutrality” would remain, the power of Washington appears to be shifting in various other directions. Welcome to a post-America world: After complaints about American dominance of the internet and growing disquiet in some parts of the world, Washington has said it will relinquish some control…
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Iran, Michael Jackson, and Generation X
My following article appears in the Asia-Pacific Magazine The Diplomat: Our writer argues that his young tech-savvy peers, celebrity fixations aside, are increasingly engaged in global issues like this summer’s riots in Tehran. The violent June uprisings in Iran ricocheted around the world. While young, old, conservative and liberal Iranians protested the stolen election win…
Lone voices in Iran will be heard
Human rights abuses in Iran, especially since the disputed June election, are growing by the day. Here’s just one way that the internet is spreading the information to the world, away from government thugs: Following controversial elections in Iran, Ibrahim Sharifi joined the popular street protests. After being tracked down by Iran’s security forces, he…
The Zionist blogging army is coming to a battle near you
I mentioned in early September a forthcoming blogger conference in Israel as a way for Zionist forces to co-ordinate propaganda for the state. Let’s call them whores for Israel. Evgeny Morozov, writing on his Foreign Policy blog, has a long post about the event and it’s worth quoting in full: At the risk of stepping…
Good reporting will live on, perhaps on the smell of bytes
The internet may be killing advertising in the media but perhaps the future ain’t so dull, after all: For the European Digital Journalism Survey 2009, 350 European journalists were asked what impact the internet had on journalism – and the outcome is surprising. Even though it appears whining is part of everyday journalism work these…
Why does nobody love journalists?
Mainstream media, you have a serious problem: The news media’s credibility is sagging along with its revenue. Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate, according to a poll released Sunday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. That marks the highest level…
US liberation brings web crackdown to Iraq
Internet censorship is rife across the Middle East, issues I discuss in my book, The Blogging Revolution. Now, six years after the fall of Saddam, Iraq may be going in a similar direction:
Living as normal a life in Gaza as possible
Ramadan in Gaza is a celebration (like everywhere in the Muslim world) but even more so in a land blockaded by Israel and Egypt. One blogger has posted some photographs of “normal” life in the Strip:
The poor and down-trodden aren’t participating in politics
The internet revolution (for the rich and well-connected): In 2004, Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s techie campaign manager, declared that “the Internet is the most democratizing innovation we’ve ever seen—more so even than the printing press.” Five years later, after Barack Obama’s largely Web-based presidential campaign and Iran’s largely Twitter-fueled election protests, there is no doubt…
Ham-fisted Zionist propaganda (on the Sabbath)
Zionist bloggers, come to Israel to meet fellow Jews and learn how to spread the word about…Humus? What do Humus101, The Big Felafel, and Mommy’s Going Meshugganah have in common? They’re all blogs which concern Jewish issues such as being a tourist in Israel and how to deal with a Jewish in-law. Creators of these…