George Brock (Professor and Head of Journalism at City University London, long time writer and editor for the Times of London) has a thoughtful and… Read More »Brock’s insights on the Tunisia media attention disparity
On December 17, a 26 year old Tunisian man named Mohamed Bouazizi reached the end of his rope. An unemployed university graduate, Bouazizi had become… Read More »What if Tunisia had a revolution, but nobody watched?
Colleagues at the Berkman Center and I are releasing a report today titled “Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites“.… Read More »New Berkman Paper on DDoS – silencing speech is easy, protecting it is hard
My friend Dave Winer is working through a set of principles about online free speech at Techwithoutborders.org. They seem to me to be a very… Read More »Dave Winer’s Techwithoutborders.org
Whether you believe Julian Assange should be Time’s Man of the Year, or whether you’d like to see him tried for espionage, rape or other… Read More »If Amazon has silenced Wikileaks…
My friends at the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT are engaged in a very interesting crowdsourcing project. You may remember Moldova’s “Twitter Revolution”… Read More »Civic media in Moldova… and Cambridge, MA, too…