Clearing the Cache: An Eye on Tehran
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, June 17 2009
- Another powerful photo from the Flickr stream of faramarz.
- The OpenNet Initiative comes out with a timely report on Internet filtering in Iran.
- Some context for the role of social media as the unrest continues in Iran: the visas of foreign journalists are expiring, and they're not being renewed.
- Video is rush-posted of Clay Shirky's TED@State talk.
- Chris Dodd's YouTube request for health care ideas pulls in more than 500 responses (making his session, says YouTube, the most active "Senator of the Week to date.")
- ProPublica tries to make sense of some Recovery numbers.
- Sixty-three percent of Americans, reports Pew, now have broadband at home -- a considerable 15% jump over last year.
- How "civic-minded Chinese" are using the 'net.
- And Privacy Camp is happening this Saturday at the Center for American Progress building in DC.
(With Micah Sifry)