Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

• 8.30.07 CENTCOM’s blog team. posted in Blogging, Free Expression, InfoWar

  It seems that I missed this article from 2006. The article discusses the creation of CENTCOM’s blog team.
  The team’s motto is “Engage,” and Flowers and others work with more than 250 bloggers to try to disseminate news about the good work being done by U.S. forces in the global war on terror.
  The blog team also [...]

• 8.28.07 Target: Wordpress posted in Blogging, Internet Censorship, Technology

  wordpress.com — a blog hosting service which hosts nearly 1.4 million blogs — is now blocked in Turkey and Thailand.

  Wholesale blocking of blog hosting services is unfortunately becoming more common place. Ethiopia, Pakistan, Iran, Syria and China block all of blogspot, for example, and India, Tunisia and UAE selectively block some blogspot blogs.

• 8.13.07 Censored in Iran, Deleted in USA posted in Blogging, Notice and Takedown

  The blocking of websites by national filtering systems make content unavailable to those in such countries, but the deletion of content makes it unavailable to all. The blog of my friend Hossein was recently shutdown due to legal threats, making it unavailable to all while it was previously only censored in Iran.
  (Hossein’s update [...]

• 3.16.07 Pakistan: Blogspot accessible, but block has not been lifted posted in Blogging, Free Expression, Internet Censorship, Technology

  Athough Blogspot is currently accessible in Pakistan the block has not been lifted.
  In the past the blogs at *.blogspot.com were on one IP — blocked in Pakistan — while the interface to update your blog at blogger.com was on a different IP — unblocked in Pakistan. So you could update you blog, but you [...]

• 7.6.06 Reality and GFW Redux posted in Blogging, Internet Censorship, Uncategorized

  Nicholas Kristoff of the NY Times created two blogs on hosting services in China and posted content intended to be provactive. To his “frustration” he was not immediately censored (other than crude filtering, such as replacing keywords with asterizes). This expectation of instant censorship stems from myths surrounding internet censorship in China. Kristoff repeats the [...]