Blogging Revolution is a new book by Antony Loewenstein about the global tribe of bloggers who live and write under repressive regimes.

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They Blog, I Blog, We All Blog

Leading American writer and media critic Danny Schechter writes a wonderful review of the book in the Nieman Reports at Harvard University:

I am a blogger, a media critic, and a human rights-oriented journalist.
I am also a fan of Australian blogger, freelance writer, and author
Antony Loewenstein, because even as he profiles brave online
journalists and writers in his “The Blogging Revolution,” he doesn’t
leave his voice in the background. Nor does he avoid the deeper media
crisis that creates all of the reasons anyone needs for appreciating
the value and importance of the proliferating blogosphere.

Power of the people

Dawn is Pakistan's leading English-language paper and today it publishes a positive review of the book.

One part of the medicine

Evgeny Morozov is a fellow at the Open Society Institute and has written for The Economist, Newsweek, and other publications, and is working on a book on how the Internet transforms global politics.

His latest article in the Boston Review:

Everyone is vulnerable

Welcome to the face of 21st century terrorism:

A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and
has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices
around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded.

Our control is developing

A session at the Open Forum Institute in New York on February 10 about The Future of Freedom and Control in the Internet Age.

Emerging from behind Castro’s curtain

A brave and rare blogger in Cuba speaks out.

The Communists are coming

Internet censorship is worsening in China. From yesterday's New York Times:

It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek alternative to the stultifying
variety show beamed into hundreds of millions of living rooms on the
eve of each Lunar New Year holiday. But the program, called “Shanzhai,”
which roughly translates as “knockoff” or “underground” gala, was not
to be.

What would baby Jesus do?

My recent book, The Blogging Revolution, discusses the role of internet censorship in so-called “repressive” regimes.

I wrote an article for the Melbourne Age
last November detailing the various reasons why Australia’s current
plans to implement an online censorship program was practically,
morally and ethically suspect.

Now, early in 2009, supporters of this scheme are far and few between.

Oh, unless you count the utterly unrepresentative Christian lobby.

From Facebook with love

As much as the US-backed dictatorship would like to stop it, Egypt's online activists are thriving.

Salam Pax is back

Salam Pax, the famous exiled Iraqi blogger who endorsed my book The Blogging Revolution, returns to Iraq.