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Debate rages in Hungary over who has the power to shut down a website

There's a debate raging in Hungary right now about who has the power to shut down an anti-Semitic website. The site is hosted by a webserver in the USA although edited and operated from Hungary. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has written to the US Congress and asked then to 'assist in terminating the anti-Semitic provocations in…

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Added by Mary Murphy on July 6, 2012 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Write your blog post in less than one hour...or you're not blogging

Many people have asked me the difference between blogging and other forms of writing. My colleague Katharina Hoene sent this to me today and it's worth considering. It explains it all so nicely:

"Arianna Huffington first asked Ephron to write a blog for her when Mark Felt was revealed to have been Deep Throat. "So I tossed something off and got this huge response, and it was fun to do." In the two years since then, she has blogged roughly once a fortnight, on politics…

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Added by Mary Murphy on June 27, 2012 at 2:05pm — No Comments

The heart and soul of blogging

'The heart and soul of blogging is the individual and/or the group of individuals opining on the fly and responding post-haste to one and all.' [1] And speaking of heart and soul, it is gratifying to see so many participants blogging on this forum about the IGF in Nairobi. It's also interesting to note that most of the posts are from those participating remotely. What a resource the Internet is!

It doesn't take long for us to start taking things for granted, though. I can still… Continue

Added by Mary Murphy on September 29, 2011 at 11:35am — 1 Comment

Putting shoes on IG stakeholders

Many years ago, in another life, I was working in retail banking in Ireland. The 1980s were recessionary times and things were difficult. The bank I worked for seemed to be in a constant state of change with new regional managers being appointed on what seemed like a quarterly basis. Each in turn would do a tour of the branches in the region, introducing themselves to the staff and try, often in vain, to make an impression of sorts; an impression that would tell us, perhaps subconsciously, that… Continue

Added by Mary Murphy on November 9, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

First impressions: a novice's view of IGF 2010

Up until June of this year, I had never heard of Internet governance. Being one of 2 billion Internet users, I am familiar with the term 'Internet'. I am also familiar with the term 'governance'. I had just never put the two together. Then I got involved in producing the revised, updated, 4th edition of Jovan Kurbalija's book - An Introduction to Internet Governance - and a whole new world opened up...a world fed on an alphabet soup of abbreviations and acronyms. Initially (excuse the pun) I… Continue

Added by Mary Murphy on September 21, 2010 at 5:31pm — 6 Comments

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