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Maya of Maya's Corner follows up on her earlier posts on Bulgaria's institutionalized disabled children and posts an account by a woman who adopted two Bulgarian Roma children ten years ago and managed to locate her adoptive daughter's twin sister.
Now is Wow Too posts video of Leatherback turtle hatchlings in Grande Riviere, Trinidad, as they make their first trip out to sea.
The women of St. Vincent and the Grenadines are under siege by a serial rapist and Abeni is “very uneasy about the whole scenario…I have now developed an intense hatred for the rapist or rapists who have turned women into prisoners in their own homes. Is it too much to want my life back?”
Famed she is, though definitely not for her blogging, which is too bad, because there's no doubt that a lot of people would be interested to see the control-room photos and series of Chinese-language sources that Tibetan writer Woeser has just posted which show just how close of an electronic eye Chinese authorities now have over Tibet in “Project Skynet” (not to be confused with that Skynet.
Yang Jia's case goes to trial today, after having been postponed for the Olympics. Previously he had been harmonized after having been heroized by many online for walking into a police station in Shanghai last month and killing six cops after what was accepted was an earlier case of injustice and police brutality of which he was rumored to have been on the receiving end.
Tuesday afternoon in China and many bloggers are waiting to hear what the verdict will be, if it even comes today. Writing about it is not working very well, as demonstrated by lawyer and legal blogger Liu Xiaoyuan in his post on his Sina blog, ‘A ban has been sent down on featuring blog posts discussing the Yang Jia case':
Yesterday, I was interviewed by some foreign media; they wanted me to talk about issues of press freedom and freedom of speech during the Olympics. During the Olympics, authorities stopped blocking foreign media websites, and we were free to browse them, this is definitely a big step forward. But, controls on internet speech are tighter than they were before, and many things cannot be talked about; even posts like this one will be deleted.昨天,有外媒采访我,让我谈奥运期间新闻和言论自由问题,我只好实话实说了。在奥运期间,管理部门不屏蔽外媒网站,我们可以自由地去游览,这确实是一大进步。但是,对网络言论的控制比以前更加严格,很多话题不能谈论,如写了这类博文也会被删除。
想不到奥运结束了,网络言论仍然没有放开。昨晚,我获知杨佳一案开庭的消息,立即写了博文发到各个博客,有的博客照样不给放行。我发在凯迪网猫眼看人论坛中的帖子,也被锁定不能予以回复。
今天上午,我又在该网发了谈杨佳案的帖子又遭锁定,网友不能加以评论和回复。
What I didn't expect is that now that the Olympics are over, internet speech still hasn't be let go. Last night I heard that the Yang Jia case is going to trial, and I immediately posted this out to all my blogs; some of them, as usual, wouldn't let me post. The thread I posted on the Cat898 BBS? Locked so that no-one can reply.
This morning, another thread I posted about the Yang Jia case got locked down, so netizens couldn't leave comments or respond.
This afternoon, I sent to a text message to a close friend who's an editor at Bokee, hoping they could feature my post “Why didn't the Shanghai #2 Intermediate Court put the information about Yang Jia's trial online>”. He texted back: there's an order. I texted back to that, asking, ‘is it an old order, or an order now?' He wrote back: ‘the old one's still here, and there's a new one too.'中午,我给博客网一位熟悉的编辑发短信,希望能推荐一下博文《上海二中法院为何不在网上公布杨佳案开庭消息》。他回复短信称,有禁令。我又发短信询问,是以前的禁令,还是现在的禁令?他回复我说,以前的还在,现在的也有。
有网友将我的文章发到某论坛上,点击后打开不了。
正如《财经网》记者所说的,这一切是早有周密安排的。
Some netizens reposted my post to a certain BBS, but if you click it, it won't open.
Just like the Caijing reporter said, this was all carefully planned long ago.
One anonymous commenter on Liu's post has written:
不让人说话,只能说明心里有鬼
(2008-08-26 13:43:55)
Not letting people speak, that just shows they must be hiding something
The Beijing Tsinghua university website was hacked on 24 of Aug. The hacker wrote a fake interview in the website in which the university president said the university system is spoon feeding “shit” to students' brain. More from matrix at Solidot.
ESWN translated a citizen report from inmediahk.net on a civic action mobilized by netizens against a theatre group.
Laptop sales have doubled in the Middle East, says Jordanian blog Jazarah. “Personally I guess the growth in internet penetration is one of the main reasons behind the growth in laptop sales, the number of internet users in the Arab world is in a continues growth, for instance, social networking users in Arabia and Africa grew-up by 66% in 2008, so were are talking about millions of Arabs are on social networking sites, not to mention other internet services, more reasons to be online,” he explains.
Arab video sharing portal Ikbis, which is run from Jordan, reports new developments on the site.
Blogger Times, a blogging magazine written by Arab bloggers, covering new developments and current issues within the Arab blogging world, has published a new story called Blogging.. a Palestinian revolution.” How is the blogging scene in Palestine and what should bloggers focus on?
According to the site:
رغم الانتشار الواسع للتدوين في العالم العربي,الآن المدونات لم تجد مكانها الطبيعي بين رواد الانترنت والكتاب والصحفيين في الأراضي الفلسطينية, رغم الحاجة الملحة لذلك نظرا لما يمر به الشعب الفلسطيني من محنة وما يحيط به من مخاطر , تحتاج إلى المواجهة وكشف غموضها ونقل المعاناة الفلسطينية إلى الخارج لكسب مزيدا من التأييد والتعاطف مع القضية الأكثر جدلا في العالم . هذا ما خرجت به ندوة ” المدونات الثورة الجديدة” والتي نظمتها مؤسسة الثريا للإعلام والاتصال, في صالة السلام على شاطئ بحر غزة , بحضر جمع من الإعلاميين والمدونين الفلسطينيين . Despite the widespread use of blogging in the Arab world, the blogging has not found its natural place among Internet users, writers and journalists in the Palestinian territories. And that’s even despite the urgent need for it because of the misfortune and plight the Palestinians endure, which needs confrontation, uncovering the mystery and telling the suffering to an international audience to bring more support and sympathy for the most controversial issue in the world.The report adds:
فداء المدهون مديرة المؤسسة ومراسلة الجزيرة توك قالت في مداخلة لها حول المدونات وتاريخها بأن:” الحرب الأمريكية على العراق كانت سببا رئيسا لشهرة التدوين وانطلاقه في العالم , من خلال ما كان يدونه الجنود الأمريكيين حول تفاصيل الحرب حتى بات كمراسل عسكري ميداني ينقل ادق تفاصيل المعركة على شبكة الانترنت”. وأوضحت المدهون انه وبالرغم من حملات الملاحقة للمدونيين واعتقال البعض منهم في دول عربية كـ ” مصر , السعودية , الكويت والبحرين “,لم يفت في عضد المدونيين و واصلوا طريقهم نحو كشف الحقيقة والتعبير عن هموم المواطن العربي البسيط وأثرت في الرأي العام العربي من خلال ما يكتب ويدون على شبكة الإنترنت.However, some of the participants downplayed the role blogging plays.
على الجانب الأخر اعتبر الصحفي مفيد أبو شمالة من وكالة رامتان للانباء , انه لا حاجة للتدوين في ظل وجود الصحف والمواقع الإخبارية على شبكة الانترنت, وقال :”لو اعتبرنا ان لكل زائر انترنت مدونة , فيصبح كل المدونون صحفيين وبالتالي لن نجد من يقرأ ما يكتب على الانترنت”.