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Manon Latil

Iran's hegemonic venture guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • In the Arabic media, editorials condemned "Iranian irredentism" and drew comparisons with Saddam's ambitions and their catastrophic end.
Ed Webb

The BBC's Twitter slip: Peter Horrocks' lesson on private messages | Media | guardian.c... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 07 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 07 Feb 09
     
    More lessons in how not to use Twitter
Amira AlTahawi

Angry words on Twitter to be prosecution evidence in New York murder trial | Technology... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...tter-murder-dancy-trial-harlem

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  • Amira AlTahawi on 12 Jan 10
     
    "Angry words on Twitter to be prosecution evidence in New York murder trial\n\nProsecutors intend to present court with tweets between victim Kwame Dancy and accused man Jameg Blake"
Ed Webb

How a man setting fire to himself sparked an uprising in Tunisia | Brian Whitaker | Com... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 28 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Reporting of these events has been sparse, to say the least. The Tunisian press, of course, is strictly controlled and international news organisations have shown little interest: the "not many dead" syndrome, perhaps. But in the context of Tunisia they are momentous events. It's a police state, after all, where riots and demonstrations don't normally happen – and certainly not simultaneously in towns and cities up and down the country.So, what we are seeing, firstly, is the failure of a system constructed by the regime over many years to prevent people from organising, communicating and agitating.Secondly, we are seeing relatively large numbers of people casting off their fear of the regime. Despite the very real risk of arrest and torture, they are refusing to be intimidated.
  • Ben Ali may try to cling on, but his regime now has a fin de siècle air about it. He came to power in 1987 by declaring President Bourguiba unfit for office. It's probably just a matter of time before someone else delivers that same message to Ben Ali.
  • international news organisations have shown little interest: the "not many dead" syndrome, No, that's not the reason. The reason is that this SOB is one of our SOBs. We must be absolutely sure that we don't risk letting let any nasty Islamists or not-compliant folk near the levers of power before we start to fan the flames of democracy.
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  • Tunisia could be the most "laique" eligible country , more than many other arab and some european countries. Women emancipation and civil family laws are an example. Education rate is very high, and the gdp per capita is good.What's missing : transparency, freedom and real democraty.Please don't think that the regime of Ben Ali is the bastion againt extremists .. the unique bastion against all extremists are education , freedom , respect and well being. Fighting extremists by guns , fire and jail is a complete failure. Please note that the modern governments in maghreb countries have destroyed the islamic in-country traditional institutions known by their moderation and their knowledge of the religion whick maked the influence of "eastern islamic schools" like wahabism from saudi be predominant on the new era of staellite channels .. which is not very good news for all of us ..
Ed Webb

Will Saudi women drivers spark a revolution? - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 26 May 11 - No Cached
  • The royal family probably thought that by taking down al-Sharif's Facebook page they could silence her protest, says Pat Bartels at Gather. But the video is still visible on YouTube. This case "illustrates just how oppressed women are in Saudi Arabia," and now that the word is out that women are standing up for their rights, there is no going back."Saudi woman uses social media and lands in jail"
  • Al-Sharif's crime, in the eyes of the government, wasn't driving, says Jane Martinson in Britain's Guardian. It was posting her protest video on Facebook and Twitter — the social networking powerhouses that have helped uprisings spread elsewhere. The government probably won't budge on its longstanding passive support of religious clerics' ban on women driving, but it will be "quick to stamp down" any effort by protesters to harness the power of the internet and use it against the government."A drive for freedom in Saudi Arabia"
Ed Webb

In defence of anonymity, despite 'Gay girl in Damascus' | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...blogging-press-freedom-amina

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shared by Ed Webb on 19 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Social media is a minefield for the unwary. Some things demand vetting if not outright verification, because the risk is to be an utter dupe. The BBC has especially sound practices in this regard, but it, too, was fooled.It's worth noting that traditional and new media organisations were instrumental in unmasking the falsity of the "gay girl" blog. Among others, National Public Radio's Andy Carvin asked his Twitter audience for help, and got plenty, while the Washington Post did its own digging into the matter; meanwhile, the Electronic Intifada website pieced together some evidence as well – and all kinds of people with no media affiliations contributed what they knew, learned or surmised.
  • Sounding real is not the same as being real. The fake Amina's blog was especially well done, with details that sounded authentic even to native Syrians. Its unmasked author said he was telling larger truths, but we have a name for this technique: fiction.
  • pseudonym. This is a much-used method online – not revealing one's own name but having a consistent identifier. It's one step away from outright anonymity, where there is no accountability whatever
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  • It is up to us to cultivate an abiding distrust for speech when the speaker refuses to stand behind his or her own words – that is, by using one's own name.
  • it is essential to preserve anonymity (in special circumstances), even if we discourage it, while simultaneously improving trust.
  • What we should all fear is what too many in power want to see: the end of anonymity entirely. Governments, in particular, absolutely loathe the idea that people can speak without being identified. It will always be possible to create and disseminate anonymous speech with adept use of technology, but governments and their corporate handmaidens are working hard to make it much more difficult – and I fear there will soon be widespread laws disallowing anonymous speech, even in America. We should not allow them to succeed.
gweyman

The first Arab Bloggers Meeting was private and low key. Not this year's | Yazan Badran... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...arab-bloggers-meeting

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  • gweyman on 08 Oct 11
     
    Excellent piece from Yazan Badran
Tom Trewinnard

Alexandria's new library shelving scholarship for profit, say critics | World news | gu... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ndria-library-food-bibliotheca

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shared by Tom Trewinnard on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Tom Trewinnard on 28 Aug 09
     
    Great to see The Guardian quoting Egyptian blogger Zeinobia!
  • Tom Trewinnard on 28 Aug 09
     
    This is a horrendous plan, the library in Alex is beautiful and this would turn it into another non-descript food court. Great to see The Guardian quoting Zeinobia!
Ed Webb

Charlie's Angles: Why rickrolling is bad for the link economy | Technology | guardian.c... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Once you start rickrolling people, and more importantly get a reputation for it, you're heading towards being the Zimbabwean dollar in the link economy: it doesn't matter how many you offer, people just aren't going to buy them.
  • If your Facebook page's principal URL said "click here for more about me!" and then linked to a Rick Astley video, what would people think of you? That you liked a practical joke, perhaps. This could be useful for them to know. But they wouldn't have learnt anything about you, apart from that fact. As we become simultaneously more promiscuous in making our online personalities visible, and therefore more likely to come across people without any other context than their own representation of themselves, there's less and less time to make an impression.
  • Without links, the web doesn't really work. You can't go anywhere. And if your fear is that the next link someone offers on will take you essentially nowhere — they get marked. On services where you can't see the full link — most URLs passed on Twitter are shortened via link-shortening services, to fit them into its 140-character limit — or where the link doesn't tell you much (as with any YouTube URL), it's all about trust. The pound or dollar in your pocket is a form of trust: you trust whoever you trade with to redeem a pound's worth of value from it. Same with links.
  • Ed Webb on 02 Apr 09
     
    Sound advice, if a shade dull...
Ed Webb

Heather Harvey: Trying to read Grazia in Iran | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...iran-censorship

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shared by Ed Webb on 01 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 01 Feb 09
     
    Censorship discussion
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