Shifting Sidebars #11
Our World - Reporters without Borders. Network monitoring attacks on reporters worldwide. Site in French, English, and Spanish. Numerous annual reports, including restraints on net.
OpenNet Initiative. Systematically studies and challenges net filtering worldwide. Many studies on the site.
Electronic Frontier Foundation. Protects all manner of digital rights. Many court cases on site.
Our Net - Photobucket. Put your images and videos here and link to them from your blogs, websites, and other netplaces. 1 gig free storage (that's a heap) just for you!
Google Maps. Once Google Local, now re-named Google Maps by popular demand. Very, very flexible way of finding places and events in US. Would you believe Rockville has a 'Chinatown?'
Nice Blogs - Blogger Indonesia. By A. Fatih Syuhud, a dedicated and prolific blogger writing from New Delhi.
Presiden SBY. The President's team gets the news out. Fresh every day. It's really a syndicated website, but let's give SBY a little leeway.
Change. New thoughtful blog by Martin Manurung, a young progressive Indonesian intellectual.
Direktif. Consistently useful Indonesian aggregate blog with solid tech slant.
Sarapan Ekonomi. Nice light blog on Indonesian economy by former journalist Rasyad A. Parinduri.
FP Passport. Official blog of Foreign Policy magazine.
DetikInet. Popular portal detikcom's tech blog.
Satya Witoelar. What's to say? For those who love the net, this blog is consistently interesting.
Hi, Martin. Better email me directly. Three Singapore blogs in the Nice Blogs list -- Internet in Asia, Singabloodypore, and (naughty) Xiaxue were all up and running when I checked just now. Don't think any are run on servers in Singapore. But it's true websites and blogs are supposed to register in Singapore, and new regs curtail political podcasts and videocasts -- just in time for the current general election. Not that all this matters -- there's been so much self-censorship so long in all Singapore media. And the election is de facto over on nomination day. The numerous formal net restrictions represent typical PAP overkill. Like the latest effort to have certain audio removed from the SDP website. But the video by Dr. Chee Soon Juan's wife, Chee Siok Chi, is still playing on YouTube!
Posted by: John | April 25, 2006 08:49 AM
John, thanks for mentioning my blog. Anyway, I try to open the Singaporean blog, but it says 'forbidden'.
Posted by: MartinManurung | April 24, 2006 07:16 PM
Hiya, Satya. Well, what else are aged Ooms good for if not to point everyone to the generasi penerus. I look forward to your next 50 years of blogging. :-)
Posted by: John | April 24, 2006 08:23 AM
wow, didn't expect to see a mention of my blog from uncle john himself. thanks! and also thanks for spreading a link to the lahap blog the other day.
Posted by: Satya | April 24, 2006 07:29 AM