You can see the news from Wired here but I’ve also reposted the entire story after the link. If you are in China and can confirm this directly with Wired, please do so by e-mailing them.

Chinese authorities have begun blocking Chinese internet users from reading Wired.com, according to a report from the Examiner.

Internet users from Beijing to Shanghai found the site inaccessible starting Friday, reports Glenn Loveland, the Examiner’s Beijing correspondent. The block adds Wired.com to a long list of sites that are or have been considered too dangerous for Chinese net users.

Current blacklist members and alumni include YouTube, Facebook, the BBC, Wikipedia, Google and most recently, IMDB, an encyclopedic movie information site. China’s censorship of the net is in constant flux, aided by sets of powerful firewalls marketed to the Communist government by Western technology companies.

We’re not sure if we are supposed to give an acceptance speech or file an official complaint in triplicate at the Ministry of Proper Online Thought.

Wired.com was not notified of the block and has not been able to confirm it independently. If you are based in China, we’d appreciate you letting us know in the comments or by e-mail if you can’t load the site without having to use a proxy or censorship evasion tools like Tor. Another easy way to report this block or others is to use the Berkman Center’s Herdict tool.

Wired.com editors are hard at work trying to figure out what we did to earn a spot on the blacklist. Was it our wall-to-wall CES coverage? Or was it Wired.com’s critical coverage of Chinese internet censorship?

Wired.com is the online affiliate of Wired magazine. Both are owned by Condé Nast, a privately held publishing company based in New York that also publishes Vanity Fair, GQ and The New Yorker, among other titles.

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On October 26, 2009, a new law in Ontario will ban the use of mobile electronic devices including cell phones and mobile media players while behind the wheel. Mathieu Yuill was a guest on Breakfast Television in Toronto on October 20 to discuss some of the products available for consumers so they can continue using their cell phone while driving in a hands-free way.

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This episode I was on talking about back to school items. Products featured include: Panasonic Toaster Oven, Toshiba Laptop, HP Laptop, macbook, Samsung Cell Phone, Motorola Cell Phone, HP Camera

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To say that MobileMe hasn’t made everyone happy may be a bit of an understatement. We don’t generally hear from the satisfied customers, but we have received a fair amount of email from dissatisfied users of Apple’s “cloud computing” solution. Given the barrage of negativity, it’s nice to hear a positive take now and then. TUAW reader Rob had just the thing …

While at the dry cleaner one day, Rob’s iPhone was stolen. He immediately chalked it up as gone forever, and proceeded to purchase a brand new one that same evening. It was the next day when unfamiliar contacts began to appear on the new phone. The (not-too-bright) thief was unwittingly supplying him with names and phone numbers of his or her closest friends, via the magic of MobileMe synchronization from the stolen phone to the cloud and eventually to his new phone. “It didn’t take long for me to realize that MobileMe was leading me right to the thief!” wrote Rob.

Thanks to the fact that he caught on to it before he’d had time to remotely disconnect his account, MobileMe provided the groundwork for a little social engineering. Rob made quick work of wrangling a name and phone number from the provided contacts, supplying the police with everything they needed to get Rob his phone back. By the end of the night, he had his original iPhone in his possession.

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Consider this: if you wanted to search a printed encyclopedia for information on the 2008 presidential election, you would be almost guaranteed not to find anything. An online encyclopedia, not editable by users … like encyclopedia.com would return entries like “presidential records act” and unrelated material.

However, a search on Wikipedia.org would return a page with information the campaign of both Obama and McCain, what the issues of the day was, election controversies and many other topics relating to the campaign.

Wikipedia.org is free. Access to knowledge is an extremely empowering opportunity and it’s an important cause to support.

Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales said it best:

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”

I encourage you to donate $1, $5, $10, $30 or more to this worthwhile cause.

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Even customizing the theme was a breeze and I had that done Monday evening. I worked on The Courier’s Web site, the student newspaper at Centennial College as a pet project to put what I learned into practice and I’m pretty happy with the results. What do you think?

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• Joseph Thornley’s session on putting blogs at the centre of social media – I’ll probably be able to put a few of these thoughts into action at work the very next week.
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