Latest posts by Rebecca MacKinnon from March, 2005
Freedom to Connect
I'm currently in Washington D.C. at the Freedom to Connect conference. There is a live audio stream and live chat, linked from the top of the conference website. The conference...
Global Voices Brainstorm: live webcast & IRC
UPDATE: THE WEBCAST WILL BE AT: rtsp://h2odev.law.harvard.edu:554/global.sdp The IRC channel is #globalvoices on irc://irc.freenode.net Ethan Zuckerman and I will hold a brainstorming session about Global Voices here at the Berkman...
How to set up a free videoblog
(Corrected with more info.) It looks pretty easy, for anybody from anywhere. Thanks to these simple instructions created by Michael Verdi and emailed to GV by Peter Van Dijck. Peter...
Hoder drives huge traffic to Iranian presidential candidate's blog
Hossein Derakhshan (Hoder) says “Mostafa Moeen, the reformist candidate for the next president, has written his second post on his blog, which means he is taking it seriously.” Unfortunately when...
The Malaysian Blogosphere: chat with Mack Zulkifli and Jeff Ooi
(photo courtesy Jeff Ooi) Malaysian bloggers Jeff Ooi and Mack Zulkifli have been blogging up a storm lately about attempts by vested political and business interests in Subang Jaya, who...
Introducing Peter Tan
In the intro to his blog, The Digital Awakening, Peter Tan writes: I am a Roman Catholic Malaysian Chinese, born and bred in Penang, late-thirties, suffered spinal cord injury at...
Malaysian Blogs: Live IRC intervew & chat, Friday 15:00GMT (10:00am EST)
Malaysian bloggers Jeff Ooi and Mack Zulkifli will help me kick off our first LIVE Globalvoices online IRC interview and chat. Join us Friday (tomorrow) at 15:00GMT (10:00am Friday EST,...
The China situation: Q&A with Isaac Mao
Chinese blogger Isaac Mao has been watching the latest crackdown on internet bulletin boards and website registration with great concern. I e-mailed him some questions which he was kind enough...
Chinese protest BBS crackdown
Photos: 2005.3.18 Fete-Day for SMTH BBS on Community.webshots.com Xiao Qiang reports at China Digital Times that Chinese students have been protesting vigorously online – and more cautiously offline – after...
Madrid audio posted
Thanks to Gohsuke Tanaka for posting the audio from our Internet track at the International Summit on Democracy, Security and Terrorism. The audio for the Day 1 workshop leading to...
Safe Democracy & the Internet
Recommendations for Safe Democracy: The document of recommendations for the Club of Madrid is on the wiki page here. David Weinberger has posted the IRC for our workshop yesterday.
Internet, Democracy & Terrorism
Ethan Z and I (among others) are Madrid now, at the Safe Democracy conference, where people from around the world have gathered to discuss how you fight terrorism without destroying...
