Anonymous Blogging Roundtable
I think the roundtable [link to http://committeetoprotectbloggers.blogspot.com/2005/04/anoniblogging-roundtable-location-has.html no longer works] went well. Mark Glasser started us off with a review of the state of the world, with China having 67 bloggers in jail, Bahrain requiring bloggers to register, Cuba having a black market in email accounts with one costing $240, out of an average annual income of $1700.
We talked a lot about technology, and less than I would have liked about what holds people back from blogging. Hossein Derakhshan had some great input both at the panel and afterwards about the need for a variety of reading tools…Reporters Sans Frontiers has a list of issues country by country. (I’m in his “Building a bloggosphere” talk now, and he again mentioned that his blog has more readers via email than web or RSS, and that he evades blocks by buying new domains.)
I think we got awfully technical in the roundtable — Nashville is Talking says “Well, this Anoniblogging Roundtable is a little more technical than I thought it would be. I mean, I’m not sure what I thought it would be like, but I at least thought I’d be able to follow along.”
The Media Drop, Committee To Protect Bloggers, and Rconversation all have more.
To live in interesting times – open Identity systems
As the technical community is starting to realise the dangers of the political move to strong but unprotected ID schemes, there is renewed interest in open Internet-friendly designs to fill the real needs that people have. I’ve written elsewhere about…