A statement by the five leading media organisations and journalist trade unions in Sri Lanka carried in the Daily Mirror today is the first expression in the history of journalism in Sri Lanka that bloggers are defined as being inextricably part of the media community. In reply to the Media Minister’s statement five media organisations […]
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Tamilnet accessible from Sri Lanka once again
Tamilnet, blocked by the Government and all major commercial ISPs in Sri Lanka earlier this year, is now accessible through SLT’s ADSL (Broadband) connections (last checked 19th December 2007, 6:30PM local time). The website was the first in Sri Lanka to be blocked, with the Government openly stating that it was searching for hackers to […]
Italy’s anal approach to blogging
By G8 standards, Italy is a strange country. Put simply, it is a nation of octogenarian lawmakers elected by 70-year-old pensioners. Everyone else is inconsequential. In the aptly titled A geriatric assault on Italy’s bloggers, Bernhard Warner from the Times Onlines rails against the proposed new law in Italy that would require require all bloggers, […]
