50 years after the Cuban Revolution, repression remains rife on the island.

A growing number of bloggers are fighting back, however, and daring to speak out.

I was interviewed by Sarah Arnold in US magazine The Nation for an article published online on December 23:

According to a Committee to Protect Journalists
(CPJ) report released December 4, of the 125 media workers in prison -
a list that includes Ibrahim Jassam, a photographer held in US custody
in Iraq - more of them published online than in any other medium.

Literary Minded, Australia’s finest literary blog, has published its Literature that Rocked My World in 2008 list.

My book, The Blogging Revolution, features:

An eye-opener. A well-written, personalised nonfiction book that
is essential to our era. Should be read by young and old. See my extensive interview with Antony.

Australia continues to pursue a plan to censor the internet. It is almost guaranteed to fail, for practical and ethical reasons.

I was interviewed recently by the Knight Pulse project in the US about my thoughts. It’s worth reading the whole article, but my comment was:

Is the Islamic Republic about to establish an internet court to filter websites and blogs?

Following my recent talk at Harvard's Berkman Centre, the Law School has published a report on the event.

Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It’s a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance.

Cuba’s regime still refuses to understand that censoring the internet and bloggers just makes it look petty and dictatorial.

After all, the days of the “revolution” are coming to an end.

I gave a presentation at the wonderful New York-based NGO Witness
this week. The organisation improves human rights through the global
use and distribution of video cameras to document abuses and events.

I was asked to talk about my new book, The Blogging Revolution, and the ways in which new technology is rapidly shifting the goal-posts of information dissemination.

The Hub is their new project that uses the interactive nature of the web to mobilise activists on human rights issues.

Now this:

Leading Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas, who features in my book, recently refused a meeting with outgoing US President George W. Bush:

I owe Bush nothing and he owes me nothing and even if he has
something that I might want, I no longer want it. I am inherently
against any American involvement in the Egyptian business be it good or
bad. I just want him to hold his peace and stop supporting the Egyptian
regime. Put the Iraqi invasion aside with all the other worldwide
disasters that Bush brought on the world, it is more than enough for me
that Bush calls president Mubarak “a man of peace”.

The guts of bloggers in a US-backed dictatorship.