Archive for May 18th, 2007
You knew something interesting might happen at this afternoon’s Personal Democracy Forum panel on citizen-generated content right from the start — as the crowd gathered, a confrontational flier put together by MoveOn.org circulated through the room, accusing MySpace of censoring site members’ words and pictures. Once the discussion got rolling, MoveOn’s Eli Pariser wasn’t shy about repeating the points as a part of his discussion of the strengths and drawbacks of social media. Also on the panel? MySpace’s Jeff Berman, who defended his site as a democratic community that thrived on user-generated content and which would be foolish to poison its own well.
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May 18th, 2007
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In today’s keynote conversation at PDF between the NY Times’s Thomas Friedman and Google CEO Eric Schmidt (liveblogged here, among other places), Schmidt mentioned in passing an event from last year that I’d missed entirely. Apparently, Google Earth and several other websites became so politically subversive in Bahrain that the government blocked them for a time.
It’s obvious why a government might block YouTube and opposition websites in order to shut down undesired political discussion, particularly before an election, but why Google Earth?
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May 18th, 2007
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I’m at the Personal Democracy Forum conference in NYC today and tomorrow, so e.politics is on an irregular publishing schedule (“erratic” is a better word, in many ways). If you’re here, look me up.
– cpd
May 18th, 2007
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