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...looks to be more of a damp squib, probably due in part to unusually strict enforcement of visa regulations. Some 500,000 tourists will visit Beijing this month, according to official estimates - that's about the same number that checked out the capital in August last year. One Chinese netizen named Ran Zaifei had this to say about the security restrictions: "Originally the Olympic Games were just that: games. But this game has become so heavily guarded that it's really gone over the top," Ran wrote on his blog. "Government officials should do a little self-examination...
...generation and Western-educated, a healer rather than a warrior by profession and a Netizen rather than a nationalist by instinct, but don't expect to see Bashar Assad even talking to Israel any time soon. No matter how much Washington cajoles, peace with the old enemy isn't going to feature on the agenda of a presumptive president whose priority will be political and even, perhaps, physical survival...
...this country today, there is little doubt that the Internet would have taken first place as the (virtual) civic institution par excellence. Democracy in America could only imagine such potential for civic engagement. No longer limited by under-funded public libraries or the high cost of owning books, any netizen can strive toward informational parity with CEO's and government bureaucrats alike...
...know that when you're in the computer lab, you look over and see other people doing very non-pine things from their accounts. It's time to stop cowering before the pine gods, and get on with your life as a card-carrying netizen...
...information all over the world, for instance, and message boards that flow directly out of daily stories. "The Net is a much freer medium than the traditional press right now, and people are intoxicated by it," says media critic Jon Katz, who writes a column for HotWired's Netizen www.netizen.com) Katz, whose career has included stints at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Boston Globe, says that when he used to finish writing a print story, his job was over. But with the instant and intense reaction of readers posting messages, publishing a story online is just the beginning of the process...