The Chinese government, feeling threatened by the flow and exchange of information among its 100 million Internet users, announced yesterday the imposition of new regulations intended to limit access to news and commentary not pre-approved by the government’s Propaganda Department. The new rules will allow only the posting of “healthy …
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History for Nothing: Clicks for Free
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (that's of the UK) is offering free access over the weekend.
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 24
Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten" posts.
Read More »In the Garage
Most of the music is terrible, which is encouraging.
Read More »Subject 2 Discussion Anniversary Show
A hearty congratuations to Shaun Daily upon reaching the first anniversary of his news and commentary webcast show SUBJECT 2 DISCUSSION! Tonight’s anniversary show airs at 6pm PST, 9pm EST LIVE on LVROCKS.COM – guests this week will be Joe Gandelman from The Moderate Voice in the first hour, and …
Read More »Oscar Red Carpet Bleacher Seats Up For Grabs Online
The Red Carpet beckons and surely you would look better sitting there than the dufuses pictured above. For one week, from noon PST September 19 until noon PST September 26 (yes, that means now), fans can enter a random online drawing to win one of 300 bleacher seats available to …
Read More »FMC ’05 Policy Summit Podcasts
In the better-late-than-never category, so thunderstruck was I by my experience at the Future of Music Coalition’s ’05 Policy Summit last week in Washington, DC that I am just now getting caught up. In particular I had the great good fortune of moderating the session on “How to Podcast and …
Read More »Google – Too Much Power?
If information is power, is there such a thing as too much power or too much knowledge? I recently wondered that after listening to an NPR program on Google. It contained information that was both fascinating and infuriating. This was the first time – except for during the recent news …
Read More »Comments On Comments
I just don't see the point in wading through somebody else's conversation that has nothing to do with me, or anything I have written.
Read More »Google Fight Continues
Google is under fire on copyright issues
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