This article was going to be a quick roundup of Google's response to the earthquake in China - mention a donations page here, a map there, done. As it turns out, though, the company didn't provide much material.
The company organized some of its resources to assist the humanitarian efforts going on in Myanmar, where thousands have died or are missing after a cyclone tore through the country.
When Google's making an important announcement, posts will sometimes appear on more than one corporate blog. Posts relating to Myanmar have been put on at least three, and the Google homepage has been altered, as well.
While the Myanmar's regime attempts to suppress the protests taking place, citizen journalists are playing a key role in delivery of the news to the rest of the world.
When the Soviet Union was under Communist rule, dissidents in Soviet countries exchanged information and commented on current events using photocopied newsletter-style publications called “samizdat” that were handed around from person to person.
Now, the Internet allows dissidents and protesters of all kinds to get information out of totalitarian countries much more quickly (although there are still restrictions that authoritarian regimes — such as those in North Korea and China — can use to make Internet access difficult or even impossible).
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