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We are very excited to announce the release of The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism.  Following the recent protests in Moldova, the value of Twitter as a tool for digital activism is more prominent than ever.  Yet in addition to bringing greater awareness to that tool, the hype surrounding Moldova revealed misunderstanding of the value of of Twitter for activism and, even though the realists responded strongly, there was not a stand-alone resource which clearly defined how Twitter could be used by activists.  We hope this guide will fill that void.

Good news for users of Google Chrome, Picasa, and other Google desktop apps on Windows systems: Google Update, previously a background new version checker that was mighty hard to kill off, runs as a scheduled task, either when your system is idle or every so many hours. Better still, if you no longer use Google apps at all, it uninstalls itself. [via Google Operating System]

“請記住一九八九年六月三日。在中國的首都北京發生了最悲慘的事件。幾千名民眾，其中大多數是無辜的市民，被全副武裝的士兵們在向市中心推進的過程中殺害。在被害的民眾中也有我們北京中國國際廣播電臺的同事。士兵們駕駛著裝甲車，用機關槍來對付千萬名試圖阻擋他們向前推進的本地市民和學生們。當裝甲車強行通過之後，士兵們仍然肆無忌憚地向街上的民眾掃射。據一些目擊者說，有些戰車甚至撞向一些猶豫不前的步兵。北京中國國際廣播電臺英語部深切悼念那些在這場悲劇事件中遇難的人們，並呼籲所有的聽眾與我們同聲抗議這一嚴重違反人權、殘暴鎮壓人民的行徑。

Because of the abnormal situation here in Beijing there is no othernews [of the incident] we could bring you. We sincerely ask for yourunderstanding and thank you for joining us at this most tragic moment."