The great news for Democrats in Massachusetts, and Independents too for that matter, is that there are three different, strong choices for a nominee for governor in this year’s race. Despite the strength of the Democratic field, the choice, to me, is not hard. I consider it my great good fortune to have gotten to … Read more
As Rebecca MacKinnon reports, Global Voices today won the Knight-Batten Award for innovation in journalism. It’s quite an accomplishment, for which literally hundreds of people can take credit. GV has been a runaway success since RMacK and Ethan Zuckerman kicked it off not so very long ago. I’m so happy for everyone whose hard work … Read more
In the past several weeks, I’ve been playing with a new format that my friends at TopTenSources developed. We’ve seen the Citizen Journalist; this idea is the Citizen Editor. Several of us have been using a new bookmarklet-style tool that makes it very easy to tag a story when you’re reading it, provide a bit … Read more
John Bracken at Media SITREP says “we are liberated but in the dark.” It’s a fun post: he admits that “our interactive media world isn’t all peaches and cream,” reviews a forthcoming book, and cites the policy proposals of a candidate for AG of New York State. Impressive range.
Remarkably good news coming out of the GV community and beyond: the release of Hao Wu after five months in prison in China. (See Rebecca MacKinnon’s op-ed from April 20 in the Washington Post for more background.) Congratulations to his family and to the international community of supporters who have been pulling for him all … Read more
A breaking report from on the ground in Tunisia on the filtering topic at the World Summit on the Information Society: the Expression under Repression session and a phalanx of secret police who showed up. In case you missed it, here is the freshly-released, extensive ONI report on Internet filtering in Tunisia. The short form … Read more