E-G8 summit widens debate over Web governance
 Totaltele - By Ruth Bender of Dow Jones Newswires and Max Colchester of the Wall Street Journal -
Conclusions from two-day Internet summit vague, as participants agree it will be difficult to please all sides.
The Internet could be regulated, but not too much, not too soon and preferably not by a government. That is the broad take-away from two days of debate about the role of the Internet in society and the economy at the e-G8 summit in Paris.
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Wikipedia founder opens new front in privacy battle
 The Independent - By Kevin Rawlinson -
Lawyers and celebrities seeking to prevent the world knowing their indiscretions have another hurdle in their path – Wikipedia – after its founder, Jimmy Wales, pledged to resist pressure to censor entries.
Journalists’ ire prompts open press meet with minister
 MUNIRA Al-MUSHKHIS - Saudi Gazette -
RIYADH: Saudi journalists from the Ministry of Culture and Information were irked at being prevented from interviewing the minister of finance at the opening day of the Euromoney conference, describing the way they were treated as “uncivilized”.
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Lies, damned lies and new media: is online gossip out of control?
 By Ian Burrell, Media Editor - The Independent -
Concern is growing about defamation on Twitter and the internet
It's not just celebrities who have their reputations trashed online.
There are victims like Emily Moore, a schoolgirl from the country who signed up to a social media site because she just wanted to talk to her friends; and there are powerful figures such as Louis Bacon, the reclusive billionaire who finds himself hounded into the public gaze by anonymous and vitriolic bloggers.
Video goes viral as Gulf leads the world for YouTube views
 Ben Flanagan - The National -
Gulf residents are the world's heaviest users of the online video-sharing site YouTube, according to a senior executive at Google.
Residents of the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait view the most videos on the site, said Mohamad Mourad, the manager for the Gulf region at Google, which acquired YouTube for US$1.65 billion (Dh6.06bn) in 2006.
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