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Global Voices Summit: The Open Net Initiative and internet censorship

Posted Thursday June 26, 2008, 3:48 am, Over one day old

In our conference room, we’ve got an amazing cross-section of free speech activists in censored nations - several people introduce themselves by talking about their banned websites, or the prison sentences they’ve served due to their online speech.

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PDF: Citizen Media - left, right, left, right?

Posted Monday June 23, 2008, 1:40 am, Over one day old

(The answer she gets from the two speakers isn’t very satisfying - Ruffini points out that most “independent” voters voted for Reagan, and argues that most independents will vote for either the Republican or the Democrat this year.)

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PDF: Visualizing the political blogosphere

Posted Monday June 23, 2008, 1:40 am, Over one day old

He offers thoughts on a very broad topic - “What can you do with all the social media data - if you’re collecting information from Twitter, Usenet and blogs, simultaneously?” Hurst points out that, with a bit of creativity, one can extract a great deal of data from blogs.

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PDF: Rebooting the System

Posted Monday June 23, 2008, 1:40 am, Over one day old

The industrial way of talking about the internet and politics looks at the amazing, huge things that campaigns have been able to conduct online: Obama has registered a million contacts on Facebook, and has raised tens of millions of dollars from small donors online.

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Tsvangarai pulls out of Zimbabwe elections

Posted Sunday June 22, 2008, 4:33 am, Over one day old

My new friend said, “I’m not sure I believe this is really happening. More importantly, he and his party officials must have been trying to figure out whether it was worth more deaths of MDC voters if - as they surely believe - their votes wouldn’t be allowed to count anyway.

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Kenya: Citizen Media in a time of crisis

Posted Friday June 20, 2008, 8:33 am, Over one day old

Over the next weeks, as African and international leaders flew into the country to mediate, clashes between ODM and PNU supporters, and between Kikuyu and minority ethnic groups were responsible for more than a thousand and at up to 600,000 internally displaced persons.

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Chartock Radio, and the challenge of public broadcasting

Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008, 9:47 am, Over one day old

Clearly, they don’t live in Western Massachusetts or the Albany, New York area. There’s an upside to this, of course - produce excellent programming and you’ll get donations from far outside your geographic area.

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Zimbabwe: small reasons to hope?

Posted Tuesday June 17, 2008, 3:33 am, Over one day old

If you’ve been following recent news out of Zimbabwe, you know that the leadup to the June 27th run-off election has featured shockingly violent intimidation, flagrant disregard for international election laws and norms, and provocations of the international community.

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Chris Kelty: The Cultural Significance of Free Software

Posted Tuesday June 17, 2008, 3:33 am, Over one day old

Kelty observes that free collaboration in these systems is more common outside of academe than within, which seems counterintuitive, until one considers the incredible importance of taking credit within the academic world as a way to promote your career.

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The lengths some guys will go to for a blog post?

Posted Monday June 16, 2008, 1:47 am, Over one day old

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