Latest posts by Rebecca MacKinnon from March, 2005
Freedom to Connect
I'm currently in Washington D.C. at the Freedom to Connect conference. There is a live audio stream and live chat, linked from the top of the conference website. The conference tagline: "The future of telecommunications is in play. Freedom to Connect will shape the debate." I'll be speaking on Global...
Global Voices Brainstorm: live webcast & IRC
UPDATE: THE WEBCAST WILL BE AT: rtsp://h2odev.law.harvard.edu:554/global.sdp The IRC channel is #globalvoices on irc://irc.freenode.net Ethan Zuckerman and I will hold a brainstorming session about Global Voices here at the Berkman Center tomorrow at 12:30pm Eastern time (17:30 GMT). If you can't be here in person, please join us remotely. We...
How to set up a free videoblog
(Corrected with more info.) It looks pretty easy, for anybody from anywhere. Thanks to these simple instructions created by Michael Verdi and emailed to GV by Peter Van Dijck. Peter points to what he says is the most complete video blog directory to date. It would be great if people...
Hoder drives huge traffic to Iranian presidential candidate's blog
Hossein Derakhshan (Hoder) says “Mostafa Moeen, the reformist candidate for the next president, has written his second post on his blog, which means he is taking it seriously.” Unfortunately when I clicked on the link, there is an error message showing that Moeen’s bandwith has been exceeded. The power of...
The Malaysian Blogosphere: chat with Mack Zulkifli and Jeff Ooi
(photo courtesy Jeff Ooi) Malaysian bloggers Jeff Ooi and Mack Zulkifli have been blogging up a storm lately about attempts by vested political and business interests in Subang Jaya, who want to build a “food court” in the spot where a badly-needed police station was planned. (The neighborhood where the...
Introducing Peter Tan
In the intro to his blog, The Digital Awakening, Peter Tan writes: I am a Roman Catholic Malaysian Chinese, born and bred in Penang, late-thirties, suffered spinal cord injury at eighteen, paralysed from chest down and afflicted with chronic kidney failure. This blog chronicles my life, thoughts and opinions. Chatting...
Malaysian Blogs: Live IRC intervew & chat, Friday 15:00GMT (10:00am EST)
Malaysian bloggers Jeff Ooi and Mack Zulkifli will help me kick off our first LIVE Globalvoices online IRC interview and chat. Join us Friday (tomorrow) at 15:00GMT (10:00am Friday EST, 23:00 Friday China time, etc.) IRC location: #globalvoices on Freenode. (irc://irc.freenode.net/#globalvoices). Unfamiliar with IRC chat? For instructions on how to...
The China situation: Q&A with Isaac Mao
Chinese blogger Isaac Mao has been watching the latest crackdown on internet bulletin boards and website registration with great concern. I e-mailed him some questions which he was kind enough to answer: Rebecca: Up until now bulletin boards have remained the number-one way that Chinese communicate on the internet. Will...
Chinese protest BBS crackdown
Photos: 2005.3.18 Fete-Day for SMTH BBS on Community.webshots.com Xiao Qiang reports at China Digital Times that Chinese students have been protesting vigorously online – and more cautiously offline – after Chinese authorities began restricting access to some of China's most influential online bulletin boards . Xiao reports: From March 16,...
Madrid audio posted
Thanks to Gohsuke Tanaka for posting the audio from our Internet track at the International Summit on Democracy, Security and Terrorism. The audio for the Day 1 workshop leading to our Infrastructure of Democracy document is here. The document makes recommendations to governments about how to avoid destroying free speech...
Safe Democracy & the Internet
Recommendations for Safe Democracy: The document of recommendations for the Club of Madrid is on the wiki page here. David Weinberger has posted the IRC for our workshop yesterday.
Internet, Democracy & Terrorism
Ethan Z and I (among others) are Madrid now, at the Safe Democracy conference, where people from around the world have gathered to discuss how you fight terrorism without destroying democracy. See some news coverage here, here and here. Joi Ito has organized a workshop focusing on internet issues. As...
