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katherine ong

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Twitterers defy China's firewall - 0 views

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  • katherine ong on 10 Aug 09
     
    Twitterers in China discuss whether the government's attempt to censor the web has worked.
  • katherine ong on 10 Aug 09
     
    a mind revolution
Wye Keen Wong

Cultural Barriers to Effective Communication - 0 views

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Cultural Barriers Communication

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  • Wye Keen Wong on 08 Aug 09
     
    Section from a web site that deals in training people in how to deal with "Intractable Conflict"
Andrew Ooi

Internet users upset over Govt's filter attempt - 0 views

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Internet Censorship Malaysia

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  • mulling an Internet filtering system similar to China’s controversial “Green Dam” project
  • Government has called for a tender for a system that could block “undesirable websites.”
  • The MSC Malaysia Bill of Guarantees specifies that the Internet will not be censored to ensure the success of the MSC Malaysia initiative
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  • Many in the Government have blamed the vibrant and critical Internet culture for Barisan Nasional’s losses in the 12th General Election in March last year, and there has been pressure from some quarters to muzzle the medium. The Government had previously considered registering bloggers, many of whom are critical of the ruling coalition.
  • anonymous on 25 Aug 09
     
    Mandatory internet filtering is a form of censorship. Full stop. Not only is the concept being considered in Malaysia but also right here in Australia too. Governments claim the internet filtering will only serve to filter out "harmful" web content - but who is to decide what is "harmful"? The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) serves to monitor web content and attempts to ensure illegal documentation such as child pornography ceases to be available online. But in terms "harmful" content... where is the line drawn?
Maria D'Amato

Aussies call an end to just phoning on mobiles - 0 views

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  • Using mobiles for just calls and texting is a thing of the past, as a third of Australians now check emails on their handsets and more than 70 per cent access mobile entertainment and information services.
  • In spite of the global financial crisis, the use of mobile phone services has continued to grow in the past year as more Australians buy internet-enabled smartphones, the 2009 Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index reveals.
  • In last year's survey, just 7 per cent of respondents accessed social networking sites from their handsets, but this figure has jumped this year to 32 per cent, with half of those accessing the sites daily.
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  • General web browsing is also on the rise, with 21 per cent of respondents visiting websites on their mobile phones at least once a day.
  • Half of Australians used or bought entertainment services on their mobiles at least once a month, with games, ringtones and music downloads the three most popular categories.
  • Accessing the web, video, music and information on mobile phones was now well and truly mainstream.
  • The survey showed mobile phone service use was now "a commodity as opposed to a luxury for many Australians".
xuejiao lin

The changing web of Chinese nationalism - 1 views

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China culture politics Internet speech freedom

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  • xuejiao lin on 05 Oct 09
     
    Nowadays, Chinese people are enjoying greater freedom of speech and access to Internet. Both external environment and domestic development contribute to this. As in the new nationalism that forbidden by authorized government, the changing web of Chinese nationalism is such a powerful tool that inspires people to observe and thought independently. It also creates online nationalism, which could be considered as a growing potential turbulence.
  • Blaze Yau on 05 Oct 09
     
    I agree what you talked about the online nationalism of Chinese as a growing potential turbulence. In fact, there are a lot of cases showing the trend of the ' growing potentail turbulence'. The debate between Chinese governement and the Melbourne Film Festival on the documentary of Rebiya Kadeer (The 10 Conditions of Love) has led to breakdown of Film Festival's offical site. People believed that the site has hacked by Chinese hacker. I believe that the Chinese nationalism is obviously leading to an online nationalism which may impact on both positive and negative sides.
glen donnar

China Puts Online Games That Glorify Mafia on Its Hit List - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • This year more than a thousand Web sites have been shut down for “vulgar” content, although some critics complain that academic or public service sites that deal with sexually transmitted diseases have also been swept up in the juggernaut.
  • Industry experts say that at least 90 percent of all online games in China have some form of violence, whether they involve homicidal kung-fu masters, sword-wielding hobbits or monsters with a taste for human flesh
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      xinning ji on 29 Jul 09
       
      the only thing CHinese government should do is to classify the level of games and also films. it can make people choosing approriate type of game depending on their ages, and avoid young people to reach the voilence and strong sexual behaviour.
  • There are summer camps for teenagers who spend too much online,
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  • more than 10 percent of the country’s young people are “addicted” to the Internet
  • the definition includes children who spend more than six hours a day staring at a computer screen while avoiding sleep, social interaction and schoolwork
  • 70 percent of all juvenile crimes were “induced by Internet addiction
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      glen donnar on 30 Jul 09
       
      Great work, Jenny! Perhaps Sticky Notes would be good to ask a question of fellow students or for agreement on your comment.
  • Whether it is religion, environmentalism or nonprofit charities, the Chinese government has always been wary of any organized activity it cannot directly control.
  • xinning ji on 29 Jul 09
     
    even though Chinese government try the best to govern the mass media but sometimes it is hard to give the restriction on online information because of its fast speed of spread and a large amount of information.
Lucy Rechnitzer

Twitter taken down to silence one man - 0 views

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  • Twitter taken down to silence one man New York August 9, 2009 CYBER attacks on Twitter and other popular web services last week disrupted the lives of millions of internet users, but the real target was one man: a 34-year-old economics professor from the republic of Georgia.
  • The attacks were ''the equivalent of bombing a TV station because you don't like one of the newscasters'', said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at internet security company F-Secure.
  • The hackers used a botnet, a network of thousands of infected personal computers, to direct massive amounts of junk traffic to Cyxymu's pages on Twitter, LiveJournal, YouTube and Facebook in an attempt to disable them.The millions that were affected were, in a sense, simply bystanders, experiencing shrapnel from an internet blitzkrieg that took aim at one person and knocked out an entire community.
Christoph Zed

Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think « Socialnomics - Socia... - 0 views

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social media facebook web 2.0 gen y gen z internet

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  • out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
  • 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
  • Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshme
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  • People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services  than how Google ranks them
  • In the near future we will no longer search for  products and services they will find us via social media
  • Christoph Zed on 20 Aug 09
     
    how social media is changing our culture and idenity. some simple stats on social media
Christoph Zed

BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook in challenge to Google - 0 views

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social media web 2.0 facebook google

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  • "People really want to do stuff real time and I think they (Twitter) have done a great job.
  • "FriendFeed is well known for having some powerful and intelligent technology that allows users to aggregate everything they do online and do it all in real time.
  • bility for users to import activities from third parties services like YouTube and Flickr to letting users comment or say they "like" something in another user's feed.
Christoph Zed

BBC NEWS | Technology | Call to use more government data - 0 views

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governance web internet technology citizen democracy usa

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  • One of President Obama's campaign promises was to make the US government more open and transparent.
  • "It's a great opportunity to redefine how government works," said Mr O'Reilly
  • "We've got to recognise that we can't treat the American people as subjects but as co-creators of ideas. We need to tap into the vast amounts of knowledge... in communities across the country.
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  • "We have gotten into this model of thinking the government is like a vending machine. We pay taxes and get roads and schools, police and armies and whatever else.
  • "The new model is about participation. It's about the government saying we will provide you with these services that you can build upon.
  • One of the most cited examples of how government-as-a-platform works best can be seen at a site called Apps for Democracy.
  • Apps for Democracy which aimed to "engage citizen technologists to build the perfect technology solution to meet their needs".
  • "With the help of these home-grown innovators, we're engaging the community in government and building a digital democracy model for governments everywhere,"
  • Mr O'Reilly warned that "going back to politics as usual" was not an option and that in the midst of the government's willingness to open up its data, there were some pitfalls to look out for.
Maria D'Amato

Hotmail hacks easy as 123456 - 0 views

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shared by Maria D'Amato on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Password security was thrown into the spotlight this week after it was revealed that 10,000 Hotmail user names and passwords had been leaked online. A day later, a separate list of 20,000 addresses and passwords for Gmail, Yahoo and AOL were found on the web.
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