Word: webbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...increasing hits on the Web site—which took over one million unique hits this past October—prompted the publication’s leaders to consider also how that content’s accessibility might be improved, Macht said...
...concurrent revamp of both the Web site and the print magazine serves as part of an effort to create administrative linkages, replacing a sharp divide between the two worlds with unified “thought teams” specializing in certain issues, according to Macht...
...York Times column this week discussing Obama’s “Christian realism,” and that Obama himself has referred to Niebuhr as his “favorite philosopher.” All the rhetorical overlap can be a little surprising—but the web of tightly-linked references is a clear indicator that we’ve come across a particular approach to looking at the world...
...founding of the People's Republic. Online censorship followed each in near lockstep. China blocked YouTube in March, Twitter in June and various proxy and virtual-private-network services - used to bypass domestic blocks and access to overseas websites - ahead of the National Day celebration. China's Web censors blocked Facebook in July after unrest broke out in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Average users in that northwestern region have been without Internet access for the past five months, a rare blackout amid China's tendency for more targeted censorship methods. (See pictures of China's 60th birthday bash...
...Web censorship in China is rarely an all-or-nothing endeavor. When a site begins to carry too many materials or too much commentary that the authorities find objectionable, it will get blocked if based overseas, or highly restricted or possibly closed if it's based in China. Web users move on to new haunts or find new routes to old ones. But by plugging enough holes and muffling enough dissenting voices, China's Communist Party curbs online opposition to its rule while still allowing the Internet to be open enough to not dangerously impede commerce...