The Great Firewall of China Strikes Again!
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China blocks YouTube in response to Tibetan protest/riot footage just two days after Turkey blocked YouTube for a different reason.
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Category: censorship
China blocks YouTube in response to Tibetan protest/riot footage just two days after Turkey blocked YouTube for a different reason.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:57 PM • 2 Comments •
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In February, Nature magazine reported that some researchers were pushing to use the Google PageRank technology to rate scientific journals instead of using the traditional impact factor system. Since the 2005 journal impact factors were recently released, I thought now would be a good time to explore this issue again.
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