-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Tom,
Let me know if you get over near London and we can talk over a spot of tea! More info on Simudyne here: http://www.simudyne.com Safe travels. - -- Best regards, Justin Lyon +44 781 480 2797 - mobile (preferred) +44 20 8144 4072 - London +1 210 787-3498 - Texas Tom Johnson wrote: > Many of you run web sites of various types and for varying purposes. > Can it/they be read by our friends in China? Check it out. > (FYI, mine is sometimes blocked, not in China but in parts of the > Mideast. It is www.analyticjournalism.com > <http://www.analyticjournalism.com> and the "a-n-a-l" of "analytic" > trips certain wires of censorship.) > > That said, I will be in Cairo, Amman and Dubai in the coming three > weeks. Any FRIAM-ers in those parts who would like to meet for a spot > of tea? > > -tom johnson > > > > Posted by Monique Van Dusseldorp > <http://www.poynter.org/profile/profile.asp?user=186406> 3:35:42 PM > Great Firewall of China: Useful, or Not? > firewall <http://greatfirewallofchina.org/> > greatfirewallofchina.org <http://greatfirewallofchina.org/> > According to "Great Firewall of China," Poynter Online is coming through > just fine in the People's Republic. > > Did you ever wonder whether your site can be enjoyed from China? In the > People's Republic, censorship decisions can change day by day. The Great > Firewall of China <http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/> is a new site > that helps you determine whether a site is blocked by Chinese government > online censorship. > > Enter any site's URL to see in real time whether it is censored in > China. The site's Dutch organizers -- a documentary maker with a Chinese > background, and a media artist who organized some financial support from > a few cultural funds -- route your URL request through to the server in > China, and share the results back to you. So not only will you learn > whether your site is available; you'll also get to see it as the Chinese > do. (Editor's note: The "view the site in China" feature was not working > when I tested it just now.) > > Wired reports > <http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72872-0.html?tw=wn_index_3> that > all 1.8 million LiveJournal sites are still blocked, and that Wikipedia > remains unavailable. > > Tidbits contributor Fons Tuinstra , who is based in China, adds these > caveats for using the site: "For Chinese online veterans, the firewall > is not a problem, since there are dozens of easy-to-use tools to get > around it. What I'm missing at a site like this is an overview of those > tools, so newcomers can access them more easily. > > "Another problem with this site is that it creates the illusion of a > centralized organized censorship. In fact, much Chinese censorship is > locally organized. When the rumor of a new IP-block goes around, people > here start checking how the situation is in different regions of China. > That pattern is not as straightforward as this site suggests." > > > > -- > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > www.analyticjournalism.com <http://www.analyticjournalism.com> > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > To change something, build a new model that makes the > existing model obsolete." > -- Buckminster Fuller > ========================================== > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF9YAUhfoqghrmIrARCr0sAJ9sH4ATUBEzkZcmIyLDjmvbeideZgCffkpK 3dkf0dGT/oHRlKBv++DTBnU= =lbZL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
