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Tom Johnson
Many of you run web sites of various types and for varying purposes.  Can
it/they be read by our friends in China?  Check it out.
(FYI, mine is sometimes blocked, not in China but in parts of the Mideast.
It is www.analyticjournalism.com  and the "a-n-a-l" of "analytic" trips
certain wires of censorship.)

That said, I will be in Cairo, Amman and Dubai in the coming three weeks.
Any FRIAM-ers in those parts who would like to meet for a spot of tea?

-tom johnson



Posted by Monique Van
Dusseldorp<http://www.poynter.org/profile/profile.asp?user=186406>3:35:42
PM
Great Firewall of China: Useful, or Not?
 [image: firewall] <http://greatfirewallofchina.org/>
greatfirewallofchina.org
According to "Great Firewall of China," Poynter Online is coming through
just fine in the People's Republic.
 Did you ever wonder whether your site can be enjoyed from China? In the
People's Republic, censorship decisions can change day by day. The Great
Firewall of China <http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/> is a new site that
helps you determine whether a site is blocked by Chinese government online
censorship.

Enter any site's URL to see in real time whether it is censored in China.
The site's Dutch organizers -- a documentary maker with a Chinese
background, and a media artist who organized some financial support from a
few cultural funds -- route your URL request through to the server in China,
and share the results back to you. So not only will you learn whether your
site is available; you'll also get to see it as the Chinese do. (Editor's
note: The "view the site in China" feature was not working when I tested it
just now.)

Wired reports<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72872-0.html?tw=wn_index_3>that
all
1.8 million LiveJournal sites are still blocked, and that Wikipedia remains
unavailable.

Tidbits contributor Fons Tuinstra, who is based in China, adds these caveats
for using the site: "For Chinese online veterans, the firewall is not a
problem, since there are dozens of easy-to-use tools to get around it. What
I'm missing at a site like this is an overview of those tools, so newcomers
can access them more easily.

"Another problem with this site is that it creates the illusion of a
centralized organized censorship. In fact, much Chinese censorship is
locally organized. When the rumor of a new IP-block goes around, people here
start checking how the situation is in different regions of China. That
pattern is not as straightforward as this site suggests."


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Tom,

Let me know if you get over near London and we can talk over a spot of tea!

More info on Simudyne here: http://www.simudyne.com

Safe travels.

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Tom Johnson wrote:

> Many of you run web sites of various types and for varying purposes.
> Can it/they be read by our friends in China?  Check it out.
> (FYI, mine is sometimes blocked, not in China but in parts of the
> Mideast.  It is www.analyticjournalism.com
> <http://www.analyticjournalism.com>  and the "a-n-a-l" of "analytic"
> trips certain wires of censorship.)
>
> That said, I will be in Cairo, Amman and Dubai in the coming three
> weeks.  Any FRIAM-ers in those parts who would like to meet for a spot
> of tea?
>
> -tom johnson
>
>
>
> Posted by Monique Van Dusseldorp
> <http://www.poynter.org/profile/profile.asp?user=186406> 3:35:42 PM
> Great Firewall of China: Useful, or Not?
> firewall <http://greatfirewallofchina.org/>
> greatfirewallofchina.org <http://greatfirewallofchina.org/>
> According to "Great Firewall of China," Poynter Online is coming through
> just fine in the People's Republic.
>
> Did you ever wonder whether your site can be enjoyed from China? In the
> People's Republic, censorship decisions can change day by day. The Great
> Firewall of China <http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/> is a new site
> that helps you determine whether a site is blocked by Chinese government
> online censorship.
>
> Enter any site's URL to see in real time whether it is censored in
> China. The site's Dutch organizers -- a documentary maker with a Chinese
> background, and a media artist who organized some financial support from
> a few cultural funds -- route your URL request through to the server in
> China, and share the results back to you. So not only will you learn
> whether your site is available; you'll also get to see it as the Chinese
> do. (Editor's note: The "view the site in China" feature was not working
> when I tested it just now.)
>
> Wired reports
> <http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72872-0.html?tw=wn_index_3> that
> all 1.8 million LiveJournal sites are still blocked, and that Wikipedia
> remains unavailable.
>
> Tidbits contributor Fons Tuinstra , who is based in China, adds these
> caveats for using the site: "For Chinese online veterans, the firewall
> is not a problem, since there are dozens of easy-to-use tools to get
> around it. What I'm missing at a site like this is an overview of those
> tools, so newcomers can access them more easily.
>
> "Another problem with this site is that it creates the illusion of a
> centralized organized censorship. In fact, much Chinese censorship is
> locally organized. When the rumor of a new IP-block goes around, people
> here start checking how the situation is in different regions of China.
> That pattern is not as straightforward as this site suggests."
>
>
>
> --
> ==========================================
> J. T. Johnson
> Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
> www.analyticjournalism.com <http://www.analyticjournalism.com>
> 505.577.6482(c)                                 505.473.9646(h)
> http://www.jtjohnson.com                 tom at jtjohnson.us
> <mailto:tom at jtjohnson.us>
>
> "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> To change something, build a new model that makes the
> existing model obsolete."
>                                                    -- Buckminster Fuller
> ==========================================
>
>
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