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Down by the riverbankGlobal TimesThis narrow building has a history of more than 150 years, and now is a place of respite for backpackers, featuring many free services including unblocked access to Facebook on the public computers. The hostel also has ... Read the rest of this entry »
Censorship: News website Rolling Stones accessible againThe Express TribunePAKISTAN: The website of the American news magazine, Rolling Stone that has been inaccessible to Pakistani internet users since 2011 was reopened earlier this week. At least 13 ... Read the rest of this entry »
 BBC News | Poison Attack Revives Fury in China Over '95 Case New York Times What began as an online conversation about the pressures of China's cutthroat education system and the dearth of mental health services gave way to discussion of other cases of poisoning in China, many of them committed by students consumed with ... The Resurrection of Zhu Ling, Poison VictimThe Atlantic all 62 news articles » |
InfoQ Interviews David J. Anderson at Lean Kanban 2013 Conference InfoQ.com There is a lot of momentum for Kanban in the market, you hear about it a lot, people tell you they have boards on the wall, they're monitoring the flow on the board, and so on, but it's shallow, it's stuff they picked up from the internet. The Agile ... |
Blogging in Pakistan ain ' t like blogging in America Alaska Dispatch But the internet in Karachi did not appear to be the same internet I'd known and loved in America. I wasn't prepared for the censorship. The last thing I expected to be blocked from viewing was a ... Twitter was unblocked the following day, but it was ... Blogging in Pakistan ain't like blogging in America - GlobalPostGlobalPost all 2 news articles » |
 The Atlantic | The Resurrection of Zhu Ling, Poison Victim The Atlantic Hundreds of thousands of Internet users sympathetic to Zhu are now pursuing their version of justice through online vigilantism -- by exposing personal information of the suspect, by tweeting and commenting on the case on China's micro-blogs, and even ... |
Blogging in Pakistan ain't like blogging in America - GlobalPost GlobalPost I would quickly learn that internet censorship in Pakistan teeters atop a confusing, politically-fraught seesaw. While content that is presumed to contain pornography is blocked immediately by the Pakistan ... Twitter was unblocked the following day ... and more » |
What next for social networking site VKontakte? The Calvert Journal The police search, which extended to Durov's home, has sparked concern among Russian netizens and internet watchers who see the move as the latest in a line of government attempts to silence political debate online. They argue that VKontakte's ... |
Kyrgyzstan News Site Unblocked, Yet Still IllegalInter Press ServiceThough lawyers for several respected civil society organisations argued that only a court could order a website blocked, the State Communications Agency bowed to parliamentary pressure... Read the rest of this entry »
 The Atlantic | New Thing: Chinese Web Users Love Petitioning the White House The Atlantic It also remains unblocked by the Great Firewall within China. Most importantly, moments such as these hint, however obliquely, at the latent promise of a truly connected Internet, rather than the siloed version that effectively exists today. China's ... Editorial: Chinese turn to White House website with petitions - The RepublicThe Republic all 63 news articles » |
