From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Bloggers across the Internet have shown that you don’t have to be part of the mainstream media to uncover an important story and tell it to the world. But how do you start investigating a big story for your blog?
Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released tips for bloggers who [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2006
EFF Releases Bloggers’ Guide for Investigating Government Agencies
Save EPA Libraries!
From the American Library Association Washington Office Newsline:
Senators Barbara Boxer and Frank Lautenberg have drafted a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee stating their concern that EPA is dismantling their unique library system.
Call your senators today and ask them to sign onto Boxer-Lautenberg “Dear Colleague” letter! The letter asks the Appropriators to direct EPA [...]
Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2006
From Reporters Without Borders:
New countries have moved ahead of some Western democracies in the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, issued today, while the most repressive countries are still the same ones.
“Unfortunately nothing has changed in the countries that are the worst predators of press freedom,” the organisation said, “and journalists in [...]
Transparency and Silence: A Survey of Access to Information Laws and Practices in 14 Countries
From the Open Society Institute:
This report details the results of a study undertaken by the Justice Initiative and its partners to discover how government offices and agencies in fourteen countries—Argentina, Armenia, Bulgaria, Chile, France, Ghana, Kenya, Macedonia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, South Africa, and Spain—respond to specific requests for information.
Amazon won’t give book-search details to Google
From the Mercury News:
As expected, online retailer Amazon.com Inc. has objected to providing details about its book search feature to rival Google Inc., which says it needs them to fight copyright infringement allegations from a group of authors and book publishers.
‘Net neutrality’ would get warm reception in a Democratic Congress
From the Mercury News:
A Democratic takeover on Capitol Hill would be good news to those who say the government should prohibit telecommunications giants from playing favorites with Internet content.
Vietnam cracks down on net ’subversives’
From the Guardian:
Vietnam is controlling the use of the internet by encouraging providers and users to spy on each other and turn informant if they suspect politically ’subversive’ activity, according to a report today by Amnesty International.
China moves toward ‘real name system’ for blogs
From News.com:
The Internet Society of China has recommended to the government that bloggers be required to use their real names when they register blogs, state media said on Monday, in the latest attempt to regulate free-wheeling Web content.
The society, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Information Industry, said no decision had been made but [...]
Academics line up against each other in US OA battle
From Information World Review:
Universities in the US have become embroiled in a letter-writing war over a proposed public access research law.
Microsoft bows to the Belgians
From News.com:
Microsoft said on Friday it would remove links to articles in Belgian newspapers rather than be sued for copyright violation like Google was.
Microsoft received a cease and desist letter last week from Copiepresse, which represents French and German-language Belgian newspaper publishers, with complaints similar to a lawsuit the organization filed against Google and won. [...]