Committee to Protect Bloggers

An article in Forbes today said the Burmese internet is being reconnected to the outside world. The reporter says, “Researchers at the OpenNet Initiative reported Friday that the country’s only Internet service provider, Myanmar Infotech, had begun relaying data again sometime Thursday.” I’m not sure where they’ve said this. I can’t find it on their […]

I spoke with Seth Mydans, a reporter for the New York Times who’s been covering Burma. When he looked at Niknayman’s Cbox account, he noted that a great deal of the material posted in the last days indicated access to foreign media, which was unlikely (though not impossible) from inside the country. Even allowing for […]

At the bottom of the central sidebar is Niknayman’s cbox, code courtesy Marshall. Grab the code on his ReadWriteWeb post and let’s get it viral.

Niknayman has posted a link to the list of 344 people arrested in Burma so far.
Duncan has posted an HTML version of this list of arrested Burmese on his site. Thanks, Dylan.

OK. I’m not a technological genius. Or even competent. So I’d like to issue a challenge to the membership of the CPB.
Can you create a media channel, preferably embeddable, that unites all the photos and videos tagged “Burma” on all the major photo- and video-sharing sites and uploaded in the last month?
If so, please […]

The Guardian’s News Blog had a good list of sources for Burmese news. I’ll try to augment.
Niknayman’s cbox (Blogger in Burma, and associates)
Soneseayar (Burmese blogger outside the country; also has a cbox)
Irrawaddy (Burmese news site in Thailand)
Mizzima (Burmese news agency with offices in India and Thailand)
Ko-Htike (Burmese blogger in London)

The other post was getting too long, so I’m starting a second.
As I said at the end of Pt. 1, the only blogger I can find inside Burma still posting is Niknayman, who is posting via cbox, a “tagboard” comment box. (I’ve installed one in our sidebar.) Here’s Niknayman’s Burmese cbox and here’s Niknayman’s […]

Burma has become an object lesson for the power of blogging and, sadly, for the vulnerability of bloggers to the actions of a determined government. Protests began in August and, due to the lack of both independent domestic press and the presence of many international journalists, bloggers did the heavy-lifting in getting the news out.
Burma-based […]

According to Australia’s The Age newspaper, the blog of Burmese blogger, Moezack, has gone dark. Moezack’s photos and posts were used extensively by the news media as the protests heated up.
The blog of another (exile) Burmese blogger, KoHtike, has also gone dark. (Update: That is, has been blocked.) The Justice and Injustice blog is […]