The News Review:
- City Room Blogging at NYTIMES.CM/CITYRM.
- As Blogs Are Censored It’s Kittens to the Rescue
- Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 22)
- Commons Speaker contest: election day blog – live
City Room Blogging at NYTIMES.CM/CITYRM.
New York Times
LEEPublished: June 22 2009 AN RGANIC FARM With a ViewThe sustainable garden with the most exclusive real estate in Washington is no doubt the one at the White House. The sustainable farm with the most exclusive view in New York is the one that just opened on Governors Island. “It’s pretty trippy to see plants growing and the Statue of Liberty” said Leslie Koch president of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation which oversees the island. She had brought three tomato plants from home to contribute to the 600 or so others on the farm. The three-acre farm one of a handful of commercial organic farms in the five boroughs is a collaboration between the corporation and the Brooklyn nonprofit group Added Value which teaches teenagers about sustainable and.
As Blogs Are Censored It’s Kittens to the Rescue
New York Times
Zuckerman wrote for a recent talk. People who could not “care less about presidential shenanigans are made aware that their government fears online speech so much that they’re willing to censor the millions of banal videos” and thereby “block a few political ones. ”As it happens Mr. Zuckerman said the Iranian government’s censorship task has been made harder because there is a thriving blogging community there which he attributes to an earlier Iranian censorship campaign against traditional print media in 2003. Writers flocked to the Internet. This fact combined with a history of blocking access to social media tools since at least 2004 means that a large group of computer-savvy communicators “have had five years to figure out” how to get their message out. They have learned about all manner of “proxies” that is improvised ways of evading censorship — often connecting to a computer outside of Iran which then can connect to the Internet freely.
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Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 22)
Huffington Post
6:00 PM ET — Google moves quickly. In the course of a few hours it. Story continues below.
Commons Speaker contest: election day blog – live
guardian.co.uk
If there’s a third vote it should come just in time for the 10 o’clock news. If it goes beyond that it could go into the early hours of Tuesday. I’ll be blogging until we get a result. Until recently the Tory moderniser John Bercow was the favourite.