Chinese officials are retreating from their controversial plan to install an internet filtering system on computers in the country. But only somewhat. The country
It seems a witty little word play, and international non-profits Wherever the Need and Skadaddle Media are really having fun with it. But they are also using Twitter to call attention to the importance of sanitation and to raise money to build eco-sanitation toilets for developing countries. The programme calls for people to tweet their friends on the networking site and ask them to donate
In June, a group of Azeri bloggers posted a video in which a donkey holds a news conference before a circle of gravely nodding journalists. The video was a sly send-up of the government, which had been accused in the local media of paying exorbitantly to import donkeys. Two of the group that created the video, Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli, 30, were arrested in the last week of July in
http://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/aquapedia/Home A US based professor has launched Aquapedia, a web-based repository for information regarding the water sector. The beta version currently hosts 14 case studies, 8 of which have no information posted yet. The creator of the site, Shafiqul Islam of Tufts University, has attempted to establish a collaborative environment
The high costs of publishing traditional journals open the door for sponsored content In April 2009, an online life sciences magazine, The-Scientist.com carried a curious story about a journal called The Australasian Journal of Bone and Medicine that was published in the early part of the century. The journal published by the reputed publisher Elsevier reprinted articles from
Swiss citizens can now do away with tiny letter boxes in their houses. The Swiss Postal Service has tied up with an IT company that will scan the envelopes of all letters and e-mail them to clients for a fee. The clients can select the letters they want to read, and have them opened, scanned and e-mailed to them. They can also archive their scanned letters or ask for unopened letters to be
