February in Paris, 1983. A group of student leaders are ushered into the presence of President Mitterand by huissiers. They stay slightly more than an hour, discussing Marxism-Leninism, youth, and society with the ever-inconsistent, sometimes brilliant, sometimes crooked, sometimes socialist and sometime fascist president. Years later, one of them, Jean-Claude Cambalebis remembers the three questions [...]

Over on almost a diary, I’ve recently mentionend a survey of German blogging called “Weblogs 2005 - Bloggen im deutschsprachigen Raum”, conducted by Jan Schmidt at the University of Bamberg. While the German blogger himself is a relatively unknown species to date, the relatively small size of the German blogosphere as a whole has [...]

You will all remember the Satin Pajama awards with great fondness, I trust. Lots of new blogs for everybody, staggeringly opulent prizes for the favoured few, and a juicy whiff of scandal into the bargain — good clean fun for the whole family.
Well, if you like that sort of thing, you’ll want to check out [...]

Global Voices has a story (Hat Tip Financial Times and Simon World) about how China dissident Shi Tao has more than a little cause to be angry with Yahoo. Reporters Sans Frontiers, on analysing the text of the verdict in Shi Tao’s case (he was sentenced to 10 years in April for “divulging state [...]

This Slate article on what the IRA statement means by our own Scott MacMillan is quite excellent.

Drat! Comments still aren’t working. This may be part of the story. And just when the Economist has one of its most interesting supplements in ages.

Flickr.com’s hugely popular photo-sharing servers appear to have a hard time today. But if you’re patient you may get a glimpse at the the most recent shared images tagged with “London”.

I’ve created a kinja digest with bloggers who cover the situation. It works half-decently. Possibly useful.
And I’ll recommend the Wikipedia coverage once again.

Just to inform everyone that our sisterblog - A Few Euros More - is continuing, and now has a more permanent URL. You can also find a latest posts thread near the top of the sidebar on Afoe.

The results of the Freedom Blog Awards organised by Reporters Without Borders are in.
Reporters Without Borders selected around 60 blogs that, each in their own way, defend freedom of expression. The organisation then asked Internet-users to vote for the prize-winners - one in each geographical category.
Go see. There are also a couple of European [...]