Independent arabic satellite network aljazeera is a very interesting news source. Here is an article describing how to translate it to english. Found on Poynter.org
The brittish Muslim News is a good independent muslim news site. And several arabic TV and radio stations can be found here. Most, but not all of them, are in arabic.
Mullah Omar speaks to the people of Afghanistan and Muslims around the world. But Voice of Shariat was destroyed in the bombing. So a tape of his speech was delivered to Voice of America and the BBC World Service, and they both broadcast it.
This started off a Metafilter discussion: should the enemy be allowed to speak?
BookNotes keeps providing contrary links in these days of gung-ho patriotism and biased news. I don’t always agree with Craig’s own bias, of course – but he’s doing some very good work.
Dan Bricklin: Copy protection robs the future.
Right now we are thinking a lot about terrorists – but the world’s big media companies are much more powerful and probably much more dangerous to the future of democracy.
Mark Pilgrim seems to be doing alright. Good.