BBC dot.life blog: Twitter and the China earthquake
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, China, Twitter | 1 Comment
BBC Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones muses on Robert Scoble’s claim that Twitter broke the news of the earthquake in China quicker than United States Geological Survey, which provides early warnings of seismic events.
“Let’s see, as this story unfolds, whether this is the moment when Twitter comes of age as a platform which can bring faster coverage of a major news event than traditional media, while allowing participants and onlookers to share their experiences,” suggests Mr Cellan-Jones.
Read More..>> Full story...Shanghai Daily available on Amazon Kindle
Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under Newspapers, China, Handy Technology | 1 Comment
China’s English language newspaper the Shanghai Daily has made its e-paper edition compatible with the Amazon Kindle.
According to the Daily, the paper is the first in Asia to launch an e-paper for the device - launched in November last year - which downloads editions wirelessly and automatically.
The title joins other papers, including the Washington Post […]
Online Journalism China: The voices in-between the official press and the western media
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under CNN, Online Journalism China, Olympics, USA, Online Journalism, China, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Adding to the burgeoning hoard of international bloggers on Journalism.co.uk, China Daily’s Dave Green offers an insight into the world of online journalism in China.
Domestic furore over the Western media’s reporting of the Tibet risings and the Olympic Torch relay was as inevitable as night following day, but the nature of the backlash wasn’t as […]
Reuters: China becomes world’s largest Internet population
Posted on April 25, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, China | Leave a Comment
China has moved past the US as the country with the most internet users, it was reported by Chinese state media.
According to Reuters, Xinhua news agency quoted the China Internet Network Information Centre, claiming that the number of internet users in the country had risen to 221 million by the end of February - surpassing the number of internet users in the US for the first time.
Read More..>> Full story...Online Journalism China: There’s an expanding array of tools to supply uncensored news - but how many are prepared to listen?
Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under Censorship, Online Journalism China, Skype, China, blogs, Politics, Citizen journalism, online communities, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
To add to our burgeoning hoard of international bloggers, Journalism.co.uk has recruited China Daily’s Dave Green to write about online journalism in China.
I recently fell into conversation with a Beijing taxi driver regarding his opinion on the situation in Tibet. His view was that he really had no idea who to believe, as he felt […]
Reuters: IOC allows websites to carry unlimited photos and article
Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under Olympics, Editors' pick, China | Leave a Comment
New internet rules from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will allow websites to carry an unlimited number of photos and articles on this summer’s Beijing Olympics - as long as they are for editorial and journalistic use.
Australian websites will also be allowed to show three minutes of Olympic events a day, in 60 second clips, as part of a deal between the IOC and Seven Network.
However, the sites will have to be ‘geoblocked’ to prevent access from outside of Australia.
Internationally the new rules allow sites of ‘bona fide’ news organisations to stream all or part of press conferences held in the games’ media press centre - after a delay of 30 minutes
Read More..>> Full story...Chinese officials told to influence online news coverage of games, says RSF
Posted on March 31, 2008 - Filed Under Olympics, Censorship, China, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Chinese government officials have been told to ‘orientate online opinion’ in the build up to and during this year’s Olympic Games in Beijing, press freedom campaign group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said.
According to RSF a confidential memo seen by the group ‘confirms that the authorities have an active policy towards online information content’.
In the […]
BBC Technology: BBC website ‘unblocked in China’
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Censorship, China, BBC | Leave a Comment
BBC Technology reports that after years of strict control by the Beijing government, stories from the BBC News website are available in full.
The corporation’s staff in China are reporting that for the first time The Great Firewall of China - the technology used by the Chinese authorities to prevent access to sites it deems unacceptable - is allowing access to news stories that were previously blocked.
Read More..>> Full story...Rusbridger attacks Chinese ‘censorship’ as Tibetan riots quelled
Posted on March 18, 2008 - Filed Under Censorship, guardian, Olympics, Telegraph, China, Online Journalism, blogs, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has written to the Chinese ambassador in the UK attacking China’s censoring of foreign news websites - including Guardian.co.uk - in the wake of the Tibetan riots.
Mr Rusbridger asked for the ambassador’s assistance in unblocking his website back online and ensuring that access to it remained free of interference.
“As you will […]
IOC blogging guidelines - ‘Blogging form of personal expression, not journalism’
Posted on March 7, 2008 - Filed Under sport, Olympics, Censorship, China, Citizen journalism, blogs, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has had the definitive word on what a blog actually is by publishing its blogging guidelines for the upcoming Beijing Games (apologies for the late reference to these guidelines - they were first published some time ago).
“The IOC considers blogging, in accordance with these Guidelines, as a legitimate form of
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