National

1. E-charity Sees An Increase In Online Giving (USA Today)
   Online donations to the USA's biggest charities surged 63% last year from 2003, a new study says, as the tsunami relief effort and Howard Dean's presidential campaign underscored the value of Internet fundraising. (June  16, 2005)
   
   
2. The Blogfather (AlertNet)
   Jerome Armstrong of the political blog MyDD discusses how the Internet has changed -- and how it's changing Democratic politics. (June  16, 2005)
   
   
3. Corporate vs. Community Internet (AlertNet)
   The gap is growing between those who have access to information technology, and those who don't. Now the battle to close the digital divide has spilled onto another front -- the fight for free municipal broadband services. (June  15, 2005)

International

1. Internet Reshaping Middle East Politics, Starting With Iran (Marketing Vox)
   Why place hundreds of thousands of troops, not to mention civilians, into harm's way and spend hundreds of billions of dollars to wage a war when the growth of the internet is already redefining and reshaping Middle East political processes? (June  16, 2005)
   
   
2. Estonia Eager To Lead World In E-voting (Baltic Times)
   Parliament’s constitutional committee has introduced amendments to a bill that would put Estonia on the forefront of online elections, making the Baltic state the first country in the world where voters wouldn’t have to leave home to cast their election ballots. (June  16, 2005)
   
   
3. Staring Down The Digital Divide (OhMyNews.com)
   Bloggers are the haves in the new new economy, but there are plenty of have-nots as well, and none of us can afford to forget them. (June  16, 2005)
   
   
4. JAPAN: Government Eyes Policing Of Internet (Asia Times)
   The government may go after what it regards as harmful information on the Internet following last week's bombing of a Yamaguchi Prefecture classroom by a youth who claimed he learned how to make explosives from a Web site, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Tuesday. (June  16, 2005)
   
   
5. Hoaxers ruin Net fund-raising event (Chennai Online News Service)
   A fund-raising event involving India's batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and Australia's Shane Warne during the tsunami appeal match between the MCC and an International XI at the Lord's has been cancelled because of Internet hoaxers, organisers said here today. (June  15, 2005)