rebecca mackinnon

www.newyorker.com — Dispatches by Evan Osnos. 'The Chinese Communist Party can move like a gazelle when it senses that its grip on social stability might be at stake. Within days of Mubarak’s downfall, Beijing had rounded up liberal activists, slowed the Web to a crawl, and poured security forces into areas that it thought could be used for the kind of online organizing that is sweeping the Middle East.

rconversation.blogs.com — On Monday afternoon I did an online chat with these patriotic young people who run Anti-CNN, a website launched in the wake of the Tibetan unrest and crackdown last year by a group of young Chinese who felt that the Western media was presenting a distorted and inaccurate picture of China.

www.youtube.com — Thomas Crampton interviews ex-CNN Beijing bureau chief and the driving force behind Global Voices Online, Rebecca MacKinnon, about advice she has for journalists coming to China during the Beijing Olympics. Her advice echos loudly for other visitors or long-term residents as well.