China’s hissy-fit over the recent meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dalai Lama prompted two bloggers to count the number of times that China has accused other nations of hurting the feelings of the Chinese people.  It appears that about 25% of the world’s countries have done that very thing.  The Chinese must [...]

Authorities in the Malaysian state of Pahang are so upset by “slanderous comments” on the internet that the government has hired three pensioners to write respectful blog posts.
The Pahang Government has appointed three pensioners as bloggers to thwart slanderous comments and allegations posted on the Internet.
State Information, Science, Technology and Innovation Committee chairman Datuk Mohd [...]

No explanation has been given for the arrest of online journalist and blogger Shahnaz Gholami in Tehran on 9 November. She has been arrested and jailed several times in the past for her activities as a women’s rights activist and journalist. Most recently, on 20 September she was sentenced to six months [...]

I have no idea how accurate this is or what algorithm is used. I just entered my blog’s URL at the Typealyser, and here’s what came up.
INTP – The Thinkers
The logical and analytical type. They are especialy [sic] attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig [...]

An Iranian-born blogger who holds dual citizenship with Canada has been arrested in Tehran and charged with spying for Israel.  Hossein Derakhshan, known as the godfather of the Iranian blogosphere (or “Blogfather”), returned to his homeland about three weeks ago.
A prominent Iranian blogger, nicknamed the Blogfather for spawning Iran’s spectacular blogging revolution, has been arrested [...]

Egyptian State Security Investigation officers took writer-blogger Reda Abdel Rahman into custody last month and have detained him at an undisclosed location.  His mother and two sister asked officials where they are keeping him, but the request was not well received.
The mother of Mr. Redda Abdel-Rahman Ali, and her two daughters (Azza, and Hebba), went [...]

At the risk of incurring the Journalism Doctor’s disdain, I want to thank those who have commented on my recent post “John Miller’s mind is made up”.  They have provided enlightening background information on Ayatollah Khomeini’s contentious Little Green Book.
Annie Lessard of Point de bascule supplies the URL of the full text of the French [...]

In his latest blog post, “The Journalism Doctor” John Miller meditates on the preamble to The Canadian Multicultural Act of 1985, arguing that current objections to state censorship in Canada arise from ignorance of what multiculturalism entails.
Along the way, he slips in yet another drive-by smear of his nemesis Mark Steyn.
My fact-check analysis of Steyn’s [...]

A special court holding session behind closed doors inside a Burmese prison today sentenced a young blogger named Nay Phone Latt (at right) to 20 years and 6 months incarceration.  Also, poet Saw Wai, received a two-year term for a poem containing concealed ridicule of Senior General Than Shwe, head of the governing military junta.
Reporters [...]

Hazel Blears, “communities secretary” in Britain’s Labour government, says something monumentally stupid about political blogs.
“Until political blogging ‘adds value’ to our political culture, by allowing new voices, ideas and legitimate protest and challenge, and until the mainstream media reports politics in a calmer, more responsible manner, it will continue to fuel a culture of cynicism [...]

Last month, Nigerian-born US-based blogger Jonathan Elendu was detained by Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) and held incommunicado for eleven days before being released without charge.  Now comes news that SSS have arrested another US-based Nigerian blogger Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe, who runs HuHuOnline. Mr Asiwe is still in custody and has been held without charge [...]

Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer has been in custody since November 2006 when he was arrested for “insulting Islam” and “insulting the president” over articles he posted online.  In February 2007, he was sentenced to a total of four years’ imprisonment.
Today marks the half-way point of his sentence, and Reporters Without Borders is calling for his [...]

Earlier this year an Italian judge invoked a 1948 law against “clandestine newspapers” in ordering a writer to close his blog.  Now an Italian politician has expressed his fear that “almost the entire Italian internet” is illegal.
The story begins back in May, when a judge in Modica (in Sicily) found local historian and author Carlo [...]

As readers of my former blog Magic Statistics will know, I recently retired and moved from Canada’s frozen North-West to its hurricane-prone South-East. In 1988, my wife and I moved from Vancouver, BC, to Whitehorse, Yukon, where I worked as a statistician for 20 years. Last month, we sold our house and moved [...]