Inspired by the grassroots Obama campaign, a Japanese student tried to start an online group to mobilize young Japanese voters. But he discovered that his online effort violates the country’s 50-year-old election law. Akiko Fujita reports. Listen
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On this week’s podcast, one of the world’s oldest bibles finds a new home online. Also, technology updates on the post-election violence in Iran, and the violence in western China. And we’ll end with a story of global online musical cooperation. Rock on.
Correspondent Cyrus Farivar reports on how technology activists around the globe are working to help Iranians bypass their government’s Internet censorship.
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Eyebrows were raised when Shelley Sawers posted on Facebook photos of where she and her husband live. She also noted the names of some of their friends and relatives. That’s because Lady Sawers is the wife of the head of Britain’s spy agency MI6. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the story from Sarah Lyall, London correspondent for the New York Times.
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Reporter Cyrus Farivar tries to sort out fact from fiction in the flurry of online communication coming out of Iran. Listen
It’s all Iran this week, folks. Violence and protests have flaired in Iran following last week’s disputed elections. The government moved quickly to shut down the flow of information out of, and into, the country. But Twitter and other social media tools are keeping that flow of information going. In fact, it’s not merely a flow, but a flood. For this week’s Technology Podcast,we’ll take an in-depth look at how vital social media tools have become in Iran in the wake of the elections. Listen
Today on The World: What the US can learn from Britain’s auto crisis of forty years ago; Also, why Britain’s school minister wants to import Confucian-style teaching into the country’s schools. Plus, how websites like Facebook and Twitter are affecting Iran’s presidential campaign. Listen
