Welcome to the second Roundup here on evo-gamer.com, I hope that people who read this find it useful to keep track of what I am writing and any other interesting bits and pieces I spot along the way.
Hit the jump and see what there is this week.
The Roundup is a new feature I am planning to put up quite regularly, say once a week or once a fortnight. It will be a collection of links to pieces of writing I have done that I want to highlight, and maybe a bit of blurb about what I have been up to. I may also throw some links of other interesting things in. Lets do this thing!
First order of business, I got a 2:1 in my BA (Hons) Modern History and Politics degree. Hell yeah! In other news I have recently started doing some writing on Resolution and I will soon be writing semi-regularly on GamingDaily
Oh and as I haven’t actually mentioned it here before, I am currently spending most of my writing time on The Reticule which I am involved on with Greg Wild, Steve Peacock, Phill Cameron and Mattias Tammet, or more commonly StalinsGhost, SteveTheBlack, The Poisoned Sponge and Mythrilfan.
After the EU election results last night saw the BNP get two MEPs elected there was some Twitter chat, at one point Jim Rossignol said Perhaps the reason there isn’t a liberal, technology and media savvy party to vote for, is because no techno-liberals ever go into politics.
If you hit the jump you will find a ‘manifesto’ for what I think a techno-liberal party would stand for. Note this isn’t a real manifesto in any way, shape or form.
It was brought to my attention by Twitter that the micro-blogging app has been blocked in China. Mashable reports that Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail.com and many other sites have been blocked ahead of the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre on June 4th.
This is nothing new, in researching my dissertation into Chinese Internet Censorship a trend emerged where the state authorities started clamping down on peoples’ freedom to use the internet at times of political tension. Twitter has become a very useful tool for people to express their opinions, and it is only in the past 12 months that it has reached the popularity it has now.
Blocking Twitter and Flickr shows how serious the Chinese authorities are when it comes to preventing the spread of information which undermines the credibility of the government. I have long held the belief that the internet is a home for freedom of expression and in the case of China, I feel that the internet has a large part to play in shaping the future of the country. I won’t say that simply because of the internet we will see democracy in the country, but I do feel it is important in enabling Chinese people to share things with others.
As an aside my dissertation is well and truly complete, and so is uni! Results are but a week and a bit away, can’t wait to see what grade my dissertation got!