Internet Jelly

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2007 7:42 AM EDT

Article Source: staff.interesource.com

technology, internet, china, blogs, free-speech, governance, repression, ugc, patti-smith, jell-o

At the beginning of the year the Time magazine's 'Person of the year' cover got me thinking about issues of control and the internet in a global and local context. It focused on the proliferation of user generated content (UGC), and talks about being on the verge of a 'new digital democracy'. When 'old' media starts talking about citizens taking over, a 'revolution' and 'power to the people', perhaps it signals the opposite?