links for 2007-04-24

• Evgeny Morozov: Blogs as the new frontier in human rights
  Through the case of Belarusian political activist Denis Denisov, Evgeny Morozov discusses the potential of th Internet to rectify human rights injustices. "A person in an authoritarian country can now fight the system, raise funds, mobilize communities".
  (tags: Belarus blogging activism humanrights)
• Andy Hobsbawm: Small is the Next Big Thing
  My friend Andy Hobsbawm's draft intro to his book "Small is the next big thing" is up for all to download and comment on and challenge. His argument: "small things are the new organising principle that many future big things will be based on".
  (tags: smallthings nextbigthing Hobsbawm book)