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Cuba: War Reflections Global Voices Online » Freedom of Speech
"Today, we are informed about every loss suffered by the American army in Iraq but I remember the secrecy about the number of Cuban soldiers who fell during the Angolan War": Generation Y reflects on the loss of life as a film about the Cuban war in Angola is released ...

IBM’s “Mastering the Creative Commons” Creative Commons » CC News
IBM, outside of their endeavors in personal computing and technology, is an active participant in the world of open source technology. It should come as no surprise then that IBM has an article on their website titled Mastering the Creative Commons. Filed in their “Web Development | Open Source” series, Uche Ogbuji does a nice [...]

Global Flight Patterns Over 24 Hours I&D Blog
I wonder if there is one of these for Web traffic? (Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan)

Ethan Zuckerman at MIT Soapbox on 10/8 (webcast) Berkman Center Newsfeed

Cuba: Human Rights Activist Re-Arrested Global Voices Online » Freedom of Speech
Cuban diaspora blogger Uncommon Sense reports that a Cuban human rights activist who was paroled from prison earlier this year because of poor health, now faces up to five years in prison "on a charge of 'attacking' — which has been used before to silence critics of the dictatorship."

Will Your ISP Stand Up for Your Free Speech Rights? Citizen Media Law Project -

Worth more than 1000 words Media Re:public
“Over the years I have tried to use images and ideas to cut through complacency and apathy while trying to raise consciousness about an array of social issues from discrimination and human rights, to health and the environment….” — Chaz Maviyane-Davies Coming out of my own complacency and apathy about everything that isn’t the draft of [...]

Maldives: First free election underway Global Voices Online » Breaking News
Maldives Live covers the first free election in Maldives that started yesterday. The latest results indicate that the long serving (since 1978) president Maumoon Abdul Qayyoom is leading.

Japan: Machida city council requests regulation of Street View Global Voices Online » Breaking News
Blogger and lawyer Yōji Ochiai [落合洋司] reports on news [ja] that the Machida city council in Tokyo has made a written request [ja] for investigations into regulation regarding Google's Street View Service, which has sparked some negative reactions in Japan [ja]. "My position has been to oppose entirely the targeting, ...

Are privacy tools enough? Digital Natives
As I went on Diana’s field trip through Facebook’s privacy controls on Wednesday, I wondered two things: Do digital natives understand the gravity of what and how much information they expose of themselves on the Internet? And secondly, although disclosed information can be filtered, do we ever take into account that our information is owned [...]

Hong Kong: Yahoo falls to GFW? Global Voices Online » Freedom of Speech
Recently netizens found out the photo search function of HK Yahoo! has been filtered / re-indexed. Some netizens were worried that such practice is the beginning of political censorship. Ben Crox follows through the discussion in his blog post.

Global Flight Patterns Over 24 Hours I&D Blog
I wonder if there is one of these for Web traffic? (Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan)

Links: Day in the Life, + New Review of Born Digital Digital Natives
Two quick links! The first: a new video from Micah Spear, found via Julia Roy and American Shelf Life. The video is a stop-motion photographic tour through “a day in the life of a born digital human.” I love the style and the music, and I’m always fascinated to peek into representations of individual [...]

Housing Bubble Journalism: Still Inadequate Center for Citizen Media
In today’s Wall Street Journal story about the deflation of the housing bubble, “Housing Pain Gauge: Nearly 1 in 6 Owners ‘Under Water’,” consider this passage: Stephanie and Jason Kirschenman thought they were being prudent when they agreed in late 2004 to buy a new four-bedroom home in Lodi, Calif., for $458,000. They put a substantial [...]

Berkman's Hiring: Financial/Administrative Associate Berkman Center Newsfeed

The Uncertain Internet: Core Net Values for the [TBD] Administration Berkman Center Newsfeed

Burma, Kenya and the role of the Internet Media Re:public
A new case study over at Internet & Democracy, The Role of the Internet in Burma’s Saffron Revolution, has given rise to a discussion at the I&D blog, where Veronica Alfaro has challenged what she sees as its overly pessimistic assessment that the protests did not lead to “tangible political change.” You can join the [...]

Korea: The Death of an Actress and… Global Voices Online » Breaking News
The death of Choi Jin Sil, who has been regarded as a ‘national actress,’ gave a big shock to Korean society. Her image has been like a self-righting toy, from her poverty in childhood to a renowned actress, and from the failure of marriage with a big scandal to the ...

Japan: Machida city council requests regulation of Street View Global Voices Online » Breaking News
Blogger and lawyer Yōji Ochiai [落合洋司] reports on news [ja] that the Machida city council in Tokyo has made a written request [ja] for investigations into regulation regarding Google's Street View Service, which has sparked some negative reactions in Japan [ja]. "My position has been to oppose entirely the targeting, ...

China: The Rumor Monger Jia Xiaoyin Global Voices Online » Freedom of Speech
ESWN translated an article from Southern Metropolis Weekly about the rumor monger Jia Xiaoyin, an university student who fabricated the intension of Yang Jia's act in killing the cops in Shanghai.