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Omid Reza Misayafi, one of a number of Iranian bloggers arrested for "insulting" the government and religious authorities in that country, is dead. Misayafi's death was reported on Global Voices

There's an interesting discussion on Ethan Zuckerman's blog over a New York Times journalist's blog post that names an Iranian blogger as a rumored collaborator with the regime in Tehran.

Network analysts Renesys reported this morning that the global effort to supply proxy internet servers for Iranians to route around government control and communicate with the outside world is slowing

It's hard to imagine anything more far out than the suggestion that the founders of Twitter be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, especially since the people who invented the internet

Los Angeles, California based PicBrk dropped us a note today to let us know that it just launched its new Website devoted to breaking news pictures and real-time image searches.

At its peak, a search for "Iran" on Twitter generated over 100,000 tweets per day and over 8,000 tweets per hour. The plot just below shows the growth in volume

On July 1, the Chinese government will be rolling out censorship software on every new computer sold in the country. The software, called Green Dam Youth Escort, is intended to

July turned out to be the biggest month for watching Internet video yet. According to comScore, Internet users in the US watched 21.4 billion videos in July, up 88% from

One of our favorite parts of the annual Web 2.0 Summit is Mary Meeker's rapid fire data deluge about the Internet economy. You can view her PDF slides here. She

At next month's Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, two HP researchers are going to demonstrate "Veiled," a new type of darknet created within a web browser and built