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1. Email privacy (2012)
   
2. Domestic reality does not match bold words on Internet freedom of expression (November 2, 2011)
   The U.S. government gives lip service to online free speech but simultaneously acts in ways to drastically limit freedom of expression.
3. The Information Sage (May 1, 2011)
   
4. BBC Joins Smear Campaign Against Assange and Wikileaks (February 1, 2011)
   The campaign by the establishment press against Julian Assange is intensifying.
5. The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism (2011)
   The economic context points to the paradox of the Internet as it has developed in a capitalist society. The Internet has been subjected, to a significant extent, to the capital accumulation process, which has a clear logic of its own, inimical to much of the democratic potential of digital communication, and that will be ever more so, going forward. What seemed to be an increasingly open public sphere, removed from the world of commodity exchange, seems to be morphing into a private sphere of increasingly closed, proprietary, even monopolistic markets.
6. The Secret Secret (December 9, 2010)
   Only those with proper clearances can participate in discussions that affect significant aspects of our lives. Certain technological achievements, our collective ethical decisions (torture, secret prisons, air strikes, etc.), our collective behavior towards other nations and peoples (foreign policy discussions) and more are often obscured by state secrecy. Like the medieval clergy, those holding classified clearances are the sole legitimate interpreters of the 'really important' knowledge. In effect, they are a caste that guides our political and technological cosmologies.
7. A War on Wikileaks? (August 11, 2010)
   If the state fails to make any sense - not surprising - it is because it is has no intention of doing so. The state is appealing to something more visceral with all of this posturing: fear. It wants to strike fear into the minds and bodies of people working with Wikileaks, or anyone else doing such work, and anyone contemplating leaking any classified records. Fear is its greatest weapon of psychological destruction, with proven success at home. The outcome the state hopes for is greater self-censorship and greater self-monitoring.
8. IFJ Releases Press Freedom Report for South Asia (April 30, 2010)
   The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in association with the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) will officially release the eighth annual report on press freedom in South Asia at a regional event on May 3.
9. Microsoft, piracy, and independent media in Kyrgyzstan (April 14, 2010)
   Selective enforcement of alleged software infringement is being used with some frequency in the former Soviet republics as cover to harass independent media. Local law enforcement officials have been given broad powers, in the name of fighting piracy, to raid premises and seize hardware. For the most part, Western companies and governments have encouraged this broadening of powers.
10. Does Wikipedia Suck? (March 26, 2010)
    Students were told to pick a concept, theory, or individual central to their paper, read the matching Wikipedia entry, and assess how useful it is for their research.
11. Journalists assaulted and censored (March 17, 2010)
    Palestinian journalists are under attack from Israeli forces and are also subjected to raids and arrests as a result of political rivalry between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, report the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom (MADA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Meanwhile, Israel continues to target and detain scores of Palestinians involved in protests against the separation barrier in the West Bank with freedom of movement and expression violations, reports Human Rights Watch.
12. U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy Wikileaks (March 15, 2010)
    This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. ``The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out''. It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses ``trust as a center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or whisteblowers'', the report recommends ``The identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistlblowers could potentially damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site''.
13. Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0 (March 12, 2010)
    The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increasingly inventive netizens demonstrate mutual solidarity by mobilizing when necessary.
14. Freedom of expression under attack in every region, say IFEX members on International Human Rights Day (December 17, 2009)
    To mark International Human Rights Day IFEX members paused to comment on violations of free expression as they commemorated the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
15. The dark side of the internet (November 26, 2009)
    Search engines access only a very small fraction of the deep web, which is estimated to be five hundred times as big as the surface web.
16. Free Speech Protection Act could slow 'libel tourism' (November 16, 2009)
    Free press advocates in Britain are looking to a bill stuck in the U.S. Congress for moral support in the fight to reform England#s draconian defamation laws. The U.S. bill, the Free Speech Protection Act 2009, is itself the product of those laws, which have made London the capital of #libel tourism.#
17. What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its Collections and its Means of Access to Them (November 6, 2009)
    The Library cannot solve its space problems by adoption of a “digital strategy”
    without seriously damaging our larger mission to promote scholarship of unusual scope and
    depth. If the Library’s own access to its own general book collection were to be dumbed
    down to only the levels of subject access provided by Google, Amazon, or Internet search
    mechanisms, we would effectively be endorsing, and institutionalizing, the level of
    ignorance exemplified by the Six Blind Men of India.
18. Berlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch (November 4, 2009)
    Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch.
19. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Other Languages (October 30, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to other languages. Connexions (founded 1975) maintains an online library dealing with human rights, civil liberties, social, economic and environmental alternatives, and grassroots activism. Volunteer translators may be located anywhere, since documents can be sent by email; however, volunteers living in Toronto are welcome to work out of the Connexions office along with our other volunteers and interns.
    Volunteer translators are wanted for translation into various languages, including:
    Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Korean, Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Czech, Esperanto, Estonian, Persian, Georgian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Javanese, Latvian, Lithuania, Macdeonian, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Tagalog/Filipino, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.
20. Sources Calendar (October 29, 2009)
    Listings of events of interest to journalists, editors, researchers, publishers and others working in the media and in publishing, covering Canadian and international events, press conferences, meetings, festivals and holidays, as well as award deadlines.
21. Sources News Releases (October 29, 2009)
    News releases from organizations and companies on a wide range of topics. Includes an extensive topic index, an archive of releases going back to the 1970s, and links to experts and organizations knowledgeable about the issues covered in the releases. Available via RSS feed as well as on the Sources.com website.
22. 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance (October 22, 2009)
    23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
23. Windows and online banking - Just say no (October 14, 2009)
    There has been a rash of online heists that have stolen millions of dollars from businesses and non-profit organizations. While circumstances are different in each case, they all point to a single point of failure: Each theft relied on the successful compromise of a Windows-based system. It was this undeniable fact that led Brian Krebs - author of the Security Fix blog which over the past month has published a series of articles detailing high-stakes bank thefts - to recommend Windows machines no longer be used by those who choose to do their banking online.
24. Guardian gagged from reporting Parliament (October 13, 2009)
    
25. Trafigura gag attempt unites house in protest (October 13, 2009)
    Efforts by the law firm Carter-Ruck to stop reporting of a Commons question about Trafigura have outraged MPs on all sides.
26. Guardian gagged from reporting parliament (October 12, 2009)
    Today's published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found. The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented # for the first time in memory # from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret.
27. The Twitterest Pill (October 9, 2009)
    Who judges the legitimate and illegitimate uses of communications technology in social movements? Which networked alliances have State-sponsorship, and which ones face criminalization and State-crackdown? Social media are relying on open network access, but this openness too easily sugarcoats itself in democratic notions (participation, interactivity, freedom). At the same historic moment, we are also witnessing an expansion, integration, and refinement of sovereign police power. When the two converge we begin to see an increase in repressive intervention into, and pre-emption of, information use.
28. BBC High Court defence against Trafigura libel suit (September 11, 2009)
    This document was submitted to the UK's High Court by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in September 2009, as a Defence against a libel claim brought against them by the oil company Trafigura. A May 2009 BBC Newsnight feature suggested that 16 deaths and many other injuries were caused by the dumping in the Ivory Coast of a large quantity of toxic waste originating with Trafigura. A September 2009 UN report into the matter stated that 108,000 people were driven to seek medical attention. This Defence, which has never been previously published online, outlines in detail the evidence which the BBC believed justified its coverage. In December 2009 the BBC settled out of court amid reports that fighting the case could have cost as much as 3 million pounds. The BBC removed its original Newsnight footage and associated articles from its on-line archives. The detailed claims contained in this document were never aired publicly, and never had a chance to be tested in court.
29. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Arabic (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Arabic.
30. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Chinese (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Chinese, and from English to other languages.
31. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Danish (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Danish, and from English to other languages.
32. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Dutch (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Dutch, and from English to other languages.
33. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Farsi (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Farsi, and from English to other languages.
34. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Finnish (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Finnish, and from English to other languages.
35. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to French (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to French, and from English to other languages
36. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to German (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to German, and from English to other languages.
37. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Italian (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Italian, and from English to other languages.
38. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Japanese (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Japanese, and from English to other languages.
39. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Korean (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Korean, and from English to other languages.
40. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Norwegian (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Norwegian, and from English to other languages.
41. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Polish (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Polish, and from English to other languages.
42. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Portuguese (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Portuguese, and from English to other languages.
43. Volunteer Translators Wanted English to Spanish (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Spanish, and from English to other languages.
44. Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Swedish (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Swedish, and from English to other languages.
45. Citizen media takes the stage as protests continue in Iran (June 23, 2009)
    Wth foreign media expelled from Iran, and local journalists being targeted, citizen journalists are becoming vital in covering the situation on the ground. MENASSAT interviewed Magda Abu-Fadil, Director of the Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut (AUB), to discuss what this means for the future of journalism
46. 12 States Sign World's First Treaty on Access to Information (June 19, 2009)
    12 European countries today became the first states to sign the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents.
47. Sources Select Resources (June 15, 2009)
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
48. Secret Documents (June 11, 2009)
    Recent stories about misplaced cabinet documents and secret memos reminded Cecil Rosner of a similar experience 25 years ago. It was one of those moments reporters seldom experience # and never forget.
49. Directory of Public Domain Clip Art (June 6, 2009)
    The Open Clip Art Library is a collection of clip art that#s been placed in the public domain and is free to use....
    
50. Swine Flu Coverage Around the World (May 28, 2009)
    The swine flu story quickly topped the American media agenda when the story broke in late April. How did coverage in other countries compare with the U.S.? Was there any correlation between the number of confirmed cases and quantity or nature of coverage? How did Spanish-language media in the U.S. react? A new report examining press coverage of the outbreak in several countries offers answers. How did coverage in the U.S. compare to media in other countries, both in the level of coverage and the way it was framed? How did the number of cases reported or the geographic proximity to the epicenter of the outbreak impact coverage? And, did the Spanish-language press in the U.S. treat the outbreak differently than its English-language counterparts?