By Elizabeth Redden. The Chinese University of Hong Kong announced it is cutting short the academic term after the university became the site of violent clashes between police and antigovernment protesters this week. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Student informers are monitoring professors at Chinese universities, looking for signs of disloyalty to President Xi Jinping or the Chinese Communist Party, The New York Times reported. The use of student informers has surged under Xi. Hundreds of universities now use them. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Porn Filters No Barrier for Net Users
A 16 year-old Australian student took approximately 30 minutes to bypass a government funded content filter that took $84 million to create (other accounts peg the cost at million). He then proceeds to make much more sense than the officials that installed the software, saying, "Filters aren't addressing the bigger issues anyway. Cyber bullying, educating children on how to protect themselves and their privacy are the first problems I'd fix. They really need to develop a youth-involved forum to discuss some of these problems and ideas for fixing them." More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Podcasts From KM Australia
If you haven't seen any of Dave Snowden's slide shows, you should give this page a look, especially the first presentation on on sense-making and the current state of KM. Also included is a workshop, with Etienne Wenger, on Complex Acts of Knowing and a summary of Social Network Stimulation. More...