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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All we know is that the noise is growing
The latest on the crisis in Iran. Violence, state brutality, Twitter and resistance.
The MSM need to make more room
Following the carnage in Mumbai, the use of new technology was central to our understanding of the event. After my recent talk at Harvard University’s Berkman Centre, in which I discussed the growing role of alternative news sources to challenge the increasingly myopic and desperately under-resourced mainstream media, a blogger at Harvard’s Law School continues…
Leaving the MSM in the dust
Twitter comes of age – the Mumbai coverage was way ahead of traditional media.
Jihadists have fun online
Those feisty terrorists dare to use new technology to further their aims? Could Twitter become terrorists’ newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks.
The web won’t set us free
My following article was published by the Washington Post online on September 26: During China’s milk powder crisis, with tens of thousands of babies affected by the contaminated goods, the country’s blogosphere railed against corrupt officials. One outraged blogger wrote: “What are the people in the Government doing? They just want mistresses, they want cash,…
The small details matter
The wonders of Twitter (a technology that I’ve generally thought of as fairly irrelevant to the pursuit of journalism.) Jeff Jarvis explains why I may be wrong: We online citizens are living in public, revealing small details of our lives with our updates and our content. It’s in the smallness of this personal news that…
How to escape a brutal American friend
A reliable American ally – Egypt continues to repress any kind of political activism – requires creative thinking by anybody caught up in its madness: James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone. Buck, a graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley, was in…