Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Jonathan Ben Artzi’s parents, who’ve been supporting his ultimately successful campaign for conscientious objector status related to his military conscription sent me an interesting lecture Amos Schocken, publisher of Haaretz, delivered at the University of Missouri school of journalism. In the interview, Schocken uses Jonathan’s case to make a very important point about the [...]

I can’t tell you how many different times and ways I’ve tried to get Tikun Olam linked or featured at media websites. Sites like Salon.com, Slate.com, Nytimes.com, Truthdig, Huffington Post, you name it, and I’ve e mailed them about my content. No takers. Perhaps I don’t get enough traffic or I don’t [...]

Google.cn screenshot
The New York Times reports today that Google is unveiling its “new face” in China, Google.cn. And its ‘new face’ looks like Google’s very old face, i.e. lacking in some of its most innovative features. There will be Google News, there will be Google search (censored), but no Blogger.com and no Gmail. [...]

The past two days brought interesting technology news on the freedom front. Yesterday, Tom Zoeller wrote about the willing role that the major internet companies play in China’s massive and sophisticated campaign to block its citizens from ‘forbidden knowledge.’
Though the article centered on Microsoft’s shameful acquiescence in a Chinese directive to shut down the [...]