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“In autocracies, people try to keep out of censuses. In democracies, by contrast, they want to be in them” Excellent Economist article on the politics of censues.
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A distributed translation project allowing any volunteers to translate a text and readers to rate the quality of the translations.
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Marc Lynch translates Egyptian blog posts that suggest that the young Muslim Brotherhood bloggers who embraced blogging, including Abdel Monem, are being dismissed as a political faction and marginalized
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WTO rules for Antigua in dispute with US over online gambling… but gives very modest damages to Antigua. Antigua is legally permitted to pirate US IP to recover the $21m damages… which is pretty fascinating.
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John Bracken’s overview of the most important writing about the state of and future of the media in 2007.