Woeser’s Middleway Blog Hacked Again

Beijing-based Tibetan writer/blogger Woeser has been writing the “Tibet Update” series on her Middleway blog, hosted outside of China. About 3 am Beijing time on May 27, 2008, her blog was hacked by a group calling themselves “Chinese Hongke Alliance.”

(A profile of Woeser, written by Washington Post’s Beijing correspondent Jill Drew is here.)

Charter Will Monitor Customers’ Web Surfing to Target Ads

Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable system in the United States, has started telling its high-speed Internet customers that it is going to keep track of every site they visit on the Web.
The cable company will sell the data to a firm called NebuAd, which in turn will use it to show ads to Web-surfing Charter customers that are meant to be related to their interests. (Visit a knitting site yesterday and see yarn ads today.)
Charter started sending letters out to several hundred thousand customers in four markets: Fort Worth, Tex.; San Luis Obispo, Calif.; Oxford, Mass.; and Newtown

Complete article
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/charter-will-monitor-customers-web-surfing-to-target-ads/index.html?ref=technology

Australian Government Internet Censorship Intent

Australian government is moving towards censoring the Internet through controlling the ISPs.
Full article below.

http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/
internet_censorship_under_fire_537224

Great Link for News of Tibet

http://en.epochtimes.com/index10.html