On this day, June 13th, 2008, the news brings to our attention Chinese hackers, praise for collective action, the future of civic media, “filthy” Coca-Cola, and much, much more.

• How is IT helping and hampering movements?
• NYTimes coverage of the Webby’s (pretentiously hilarious!)
• Frustrated Chinese blogger will not touch “filthy product” after Coca-Cola perceivably shows love for Tibets (and other perspectives from the Chinese blogosphere).
• US Lawmakers: Chinese hacktivists sneaked into our computers.
• The is G8 coming together to fight Internet organized crime.
• Neo-individualism and praise for collective action.
• And finally, many cool examples of what the future of civic media might look like.

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On this day, May 19th, 2008, the news brings to our attention accusation of Free Press lies, eJihad, Internet savvy rape victims and more.

• Gordon Brown: The Internet will shame Burma’s Junta.
• Is the Free Press lying? The Register says so.
• Speaking of The Register, UK Police squash flash mobs.
• Microfinance is apparently at some sort of crossroads.
• Vertical markets are rapidly shifting their fundraising to the internet.
• Virtual Jihad is steadily gaining press attention.
• And finally, [more on] rape victims who use the Internet to look for help.

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On this day, May 8th, 2008, the news brings to our attention bloggers for Burma, Internet fund raising as means of life support, tips for sustaining an online community by Flickr, the swelling of the social networking community, meditations on the destruction of the “netizen” by way of gadgetry, zany acts of hilarious consequence, and more.

• Apparently, the Facebook community hates Microsoft.
• Internet fund raising is reportedly keeping Sen. Clinton in the race.
• Online community membership “swells” as the market for social networking software triples.
• Flash Mob, noun, “A sort of secret event where a select few are told to gather and perform some zany act of hilarious consequence at a random place and time.”
• Burmese blogs help to mobilize fund raising efforts in response to cyclone-related destruction.
• George Oats of Flickr very generously discusses how to Internet communities best flourish.
• Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet governance and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, assets that that our “tethered appliances” like iPhones and Blackberrys create two classes of Internet-user, and this gets in the way of positive netizenry.
• Finally, if your local paper is shutting down due to layoffs, entrepreneurs like Rich Carr might suggest that you start your own news source online.

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