-
Vietnam is having trouble controlling speech on blogs, and is evidently reaching out to Yahoo and Google for "help" – I suspect, given the Principles Process that these companies have recently gone through, they're unlikely to offer help. AFP piece notes "The government will announce new rules this month, stressing that weblogs should serve as personal online diaries, not as organs to disseminate opinions about politics, religion and society,…"
-
Excellent, compact backstory on the ongoing conflict in eastern DRC
-
Powerful video report on the refugee crisis in eastern DRC from Michael J. Kavanagh of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Includes a conversation with Indian forces attempting to keep peace under a UN mandate, and with a young schoolteacher who's fled rebels, who may be Rwandan-backed.
-
A dispute between Cogent and Sprint sheds some light on the critically important, and rarely discussed, private peering agreements between internet backbone companies
-
Ama's name change to Harumafuji is the jumping off point for an excellent conversation about names in sumo, especially their relationship to stables.