Times Online - Sunday Times, "The suicide web cult that killed our son"

Wired News: The Passion Inflames the Web more on The Passion and its impact online

BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Politicians monitor the 'bloggers' an interesting article on how blogging can bridge the 'divide' in Northern Ireland. It also contains a micro-list of relevant links.

Reporters sans frontières - China: "Reporters Without Borders today condemned the latest Chinese effort to gag the Internet by means of directives to portals that have discussion groups. As a result of the directives, many news groups have closed since 23 February and filtering of online messages has been stepped up. Verisign's decision to assign China a DNS root server is also worrying for the Web's future."

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Hollywood moment for ancient language about the Aramaic used in Gibson's film - the story has a tech edge: "'The word we use for 'television' is 'surqolo',' Dr Kiraz explained. 'It's made up from the words for 'vision' and 'voice'.'"

the Wired Press - The Passion of The Christ: The Second Coming? satiral swipe at Mr Gibson's familiarity with sequels, with net reference.

Vmyths.com, It takes guts to say 'Jesus' virus

Peacefire Blocking software information. Worth checking regularly.

Wired News: Net Dissidents Jailed in China

Yahoo! News - Gibson's new film goes on release bloated with controversy and hyped by the Church

Wired News: At the Front in the Virus Wars

Infoshop News - Anonymous Blog Cracks Window Into Hasidic Community: "Yeedel, as we'll call him, writes an anonymous weblog (or 'blog'), a kind of online diary, under the pen name Hasidic Rebel. His comments, first posted in February, range from musings about the Hasidic lifestyle to stinging indictments of the community. "

Reuters, China arrests Internet essayist "Chinese police have formally arrested a civil servant, whose Internet essays are critical of the government, for subversion in a case that has provoked widespread criticism of China's human rights record."

Aljazeera.Net - New US channel raises Palestinian ire: "Farid Abu Dhuhair is Professor of Journalism and Mass communication at the Najah University in Nablus. He believes the very idea of launching al-Hurra station stems from a misunderstanding.

"Al-Hurra, it is claimed will 'tell us' Israel is not killing Palestinians

“The Americans think that we hate them because we don’t receive accurate information about the reality of American politics. This is not true.

"'America’s image is ugly because American policies and actions are ugly. America can’t act the way it is acting and expect Arabs and Muslims to love her.”

something of a pre-emtive critique of al-Hurra, found on al-Jazeera ...

Reuters AlertNet - Spanish judge hailed for Guantanamo extradition

Wired News: Foiling Laptop Data Thieves

‘Asian Cyberactivism’ to be launched tomorrow

ArabicNews.com, Al-Oroush links negotiations to approval of Amazigh as an official language, 2 Feb 2004 This is not an area I have previously addressed in this blog; an initial google of the subject revealed a number of online networks associated with Amazigh, including an online forum Amazigh.net and the AmazighOnline website, which claims to be a portal to the Amazigh world.

Yahoo, Open Source Gaining Traction in Asia this fits in with what I feel will be a significant development during the coming years, regarding accessability to technology (also discussed elsewhere in this blog).

Reuters, How Spammers Are Targeting Mobile Phones in Asia

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Chinese activists evade web controls