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  • Morocco: Agharass's New Photography Blog (28.07 22:45) By Jillian C. York Moroccan blogger Agharass is known for having an eclectic blog with posts (in French) on a variety of subjects from Palestine to pop culture, often peppered with the blogger's own photographs. Recently, Agharass launched a photo blog, entitled Portfolio de Agharass! The enticing front page displays stunning photographs from around Morocco, organized like a calendar, while click... ]\" id=\"f_224032672\">Morocco: Agharass's New Photography Blog
  • Egypt: Is Egypt Sinking? (28.07 22:45) By Marwa Rakha The Economist has published a special report on Egypt and her future after President Mubarak who has now being recognized as the 21st century sick man of the Middle East. With this shocking paragraph Zeinobia began her post. Zeinobia starts her commentary saying: This report is very interesting to the level I believe we will not see the magazine in our newsstand next month thanks t... ]\" id=\"f_224032673\">Egypt: Is Egypt Sinking?
  • Israel: Rape by Deceit or Racism? (28.07 22:45) By Gilad Lotan The recent conviction of rape by deceit of an Arab posing as a Jew to seduce a Jewish woman to engage in sexual intercourse has sparked conversations across the Hebrew blogosphere about the dire inequality between Jews and Arabs living in Israel. Many contemplate the meaning of Israeli democracy under racially biased laws. Others remind that it is still illegal for a Jew to marry a... ]\" id=\"f_224032674\">Israel: Rape by Deceit or Racism?
  • Francophonie: Like Fine Wine, Twitter Experience Gets Better With Age (28.07 02:04) By Lova Rakotomalala An unexpected but deliciously nostalgic hash tag, #jesuisvieux, has been trending on the French speaking social media scene. Since July 26th, twitter users have been going down memory lane, posting tweets relating their memories from youth with the hash tag #jesuisvieux ( #Iamold for men) or #jesuisvieille ( #Iamold for women). The timeline for the hashtag was filled ... ]\" id=\"f_223879233\">Francophonie: Like Fine Wine, Twitter Experience Gets Better With Age
  • Iran: Campaign to Free Jailed Photo-Blogger Hamed Saber (27.07 17:41) By Hamid Tehrani More than 70 Iranian university graduates and academics are calling (fa) for the release of Hamed Saber, an Iranian photo-blogger and computer scientist who was arrested for unknown reasons on 21 June 2010 in Tehran while walking in the street. A friend has informed us that it was the first time Hamed was arrested. The same source said several of Hamed's photos of the Iranian p... ]\" id=\"f_223853481\">Iran: Campaign to Free Jailed Photo-Blogger Hamed Saber
  • Algeria: The Origins of the Berbers (27.07 09:38) By Amira Al Hussaini Where did the Berbers originate from? Algerian linguist Lameen Souag attempts an answer here. Please read the comments too. ... ]\" id=\"f_223754280\">Algeria: The Origins of the Berbers
  • Israel: “Oliver Stone is a Nutcase” (27.07 09:38) By Amira Al Hussaini “Oliver Stone is a nutcase,” announces Yael, from Life in Israel. “Oliver Stone has come out with some virulently anti-semitic comments, claiming that Jews control the media, downplayed the Holocaust, defended Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and complained about Jewish influence in the United States…” she continues.... ]\" id=\"f_223754281\">Israel: “Oliver Stone is a Nutcase”
  • Syria: Mariya continues her story-telling (27.07 09:38) By Amira Al Hussaini From Syria, Mariya enchants her readers with another story on history, love and relationships, which she will post in series. This is the first part. ... ]\" id=\"f_223754282\">Syria: Mariya continues her story-telling
  • Egypt: Americans need appointments to visit Embassy (27.07 09:38) By Amira Al Hussaini Joseph Mayton, who is based in Cairo, tweets: “American Embassy in Cairo bars Americans from walk-ins, starts appointment only access to Embassy - down with Embassies!” ... ]\" id=\"f_223754283\">Egypt: Americans need appointments to visit Embassy
  • Yemen: A Tour of Al Mukalla (27.07 09:38) By Amira Al Hussaini From Yemen, Omar takes us on a tour of Al Mukalla here. Click on the link to check out the photographs. ... ]\" id=\"f_223754284\">Yemen: A Tour of Al Mukalla

    Americas

  • Caribbean: New Memoirs (28.07 20:20) By Janine Mendes-Franco Repeating Islands blogs about the release of two memoirs: by editor Diana Athill, who worked with V.S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, and by Fidel Castro. ... ]\" id=\"f_223995105\">Caribbean: New Memoirs
  • Trinidad & Tobago: Types of Discrimination (28.07 20:20) By Janine Mendes-Franco gspottt applauds new Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for acknowledging that discrimination “includes, but is certainly not limited to, racial bias.”... ]\" id=\"f_223995106\">Trinidad & Tobago: Types of Discrimination
  • Trinidad & Tobago: Local Government Reps (28.07 20:20) By Janine Mendes-Franco KnowTnT.com republishes the results of the country's recently-held local government elections. ... ]\" id=\"f_223995107\">Trinidad & Tobago: Local Government Reps
  • Trinidad & Tobago: Missed It (28.07 20:20) By Janine Mendes-Franco Ever wondered how to miss a coup? Caribbean Free Radio knows first-hand.... ]\" id=\"f_223995108\">Trinidad & Tobago: Missed It
  • Jamaica: Reverend's Case Postponed (28.07 20:20) By Janine Mendes-Franco Girl With a Purpose provides an update on the Dudus extradition case.... ]\" id=\"f_223995109\">Jamaica: Reverend's Case Postponed
  • Mexico: Mexone, the Most Advanced Humanoid Robot in Latin America (28.07 20:20) By Silvia Viñas Hugo Torres writes (es) about a story that he says the Mexican mainstream media is not paying attention to: Mexico has the most advanced humanoid robot in Latin America, and its name is Mexone.... ]\" id=\"f_223995110\">Mexico: Mexone, the Most Advanced Humanoid Robot in Latin America
  • Armenia: Eating a way to peace (28.07 20:20) By Onnik Krikorian Ianyan says that food might represent the path to peace for cultures that place such significance in it. Referring to an Armenian bakery in the U.S.-Armenian Diaspora as well as responses to a recent guest entry on Armenian-Azerbaijani relations in the context of the still unresolved conflict over Nagorno Karabakh, the blog says that dining around a full table can bring people ... ]\" id=\"f_223995111\">Armenia: Eating a way to peace
  • Francophonie: Like Fine Wine, Twitter Experience Gets Better With Age (28.07 20:20) By Lova Rakotomalala An unexpected but deliciously nostalgic hash tag, #jesuisvieux, has been trending on the French speaking social media scene. Since July 26th, twitter users have been going down memory lane, posting tweets relating their memories from youth with the hash tag #jesuisvieux ( I am old - men) or #jesuisvieille ( I am old - women). The timeline for the hashtag was filled wi... ]\" id=\"f_223995112\">Francophonie: Like Fine Wine, Twitter Experience Gets Better With Age
  • Uruguay: Dead Fish in Uruguay River (28.07 20:20) By Silvia Viñas Dead fish have appeared in the Uruguay River (Rio Uruguay in Spanish), and the blogger from Opinemos Hoy (es) doesn't believe the reports that say the fish have died because of the cold weather; this blogger says he is tired of lies, and that the fish are dying because of the toxic substances, pesticides, and chemicals that are dumped into the river.... ]\" id=\"f_223995113\">Uruguay: Dead Fish in Uruguay River
  • Trinidad & Tobago: 20 Years Later (28.07 20:20) By Janine Mendes-Franco “For twenty years, successive governments ignored calls from citizens both prominent and ordinary for a formal probe”: On the anniversary of the 1990 attempted coup d'etat, The Caribbean Review of Books believes “it’s time to face the truth and its consequences.”... ]\" id=\"f_223995114\">Trinidad & Tobago: 20 Years Later

    Central Asia and Caucasus

  • Armenia: Eating a way to peace (28.07 20:20) By Onnik Krikorian Ianyan says that food might represent the path to peace for cultures that place such significance in it. Referring to an Armenian bakery in the U.S.-Armenian Diaspora as well as responses to a recent guest entry on Armenian-Azerbaijani relations in the context of the still unresolved conflict over Nagorno Karabakh, the blog says that dining around a full table can bring people ... ]\" id=\"f_223994946\">Armenia: Eating a way to peace
  • Azerbaijan: Presidential tweets (28.07 20:20) By Onnik Krikorian A Twitter account for the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has been set up at @AzPresident (AZ) and @PresidentAz (EN). The account will tweet links to presidential speeches, events attended, and video material. ... ]\" id=\"f_223994947\">Azerbaijan: Presidential tweets
  • Liveblog of global reactions to Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs (28.07 20:20) By Solana Larsen More than 90,000 classified U.S. military documents about the war in Afghanistan have been leaked. As an experiment, we are using Google Wave to live blog global blog and citizen media reactions to the “war logs” (#warlogs) made public today by Wikileaks, Der Spiegel, New York Times and The Guardian. All Global Voices contributors have access to the live blog if they wish to shar... ]\" id=\"f_223994948\">Liveblog of global reactions to Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs
  • Azerbaijan: Youth activism and social media (28.07 20:20) By Onnik Krikorian Ali Resh uses online video tools to interview Baku-based Ruslan Asadov, along with now imprisoned video blogger Adnan Hajizade also a co-founder and member of the OL! Azerbaijani youth movement, live from Tbilisi, Georgia. Resh and Asadov speak about the use of new and social media in youth activism in Azerbaijan.... ]\" id=\"f_223994949\">Azerbaijan: Youth activism and social media
  • Armenia-Azerbaijan: Moving the conversation forward (28.07 20:20) By Onnik Krikorian Le Retour (in 3 Parts), a blog by a Canadian-Armenian resident in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, comments on the three recent guest entries posted on The Caucasian Knot, the blog of Global Voices' Caucasus regional editor, and summarized here. The blog looks forward to more conversations between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. ... ]\" id=\"f_223994950\">Armenia-Azerbaijan: Moving the conversation forward
  • Armenia: More homophobic media reports (28.07 20:20) By Onnik Krikorian Unzipped: Gay Armenia continues to monitor the level of homophobia evident in the local media and comments on reports that members of the country's LGBT community meet next to the capital's municipality building.... ]\" id=\"f_223994951\">Armenia: More homophobic media reports
  • Turkey: Armenians and Turks show Gay Pride (28.07 20:20) By Onnik Krikorian Despite a long history of animosity between Armenia and Turkey, Unzipped: Gay Armenia posts photographs of Armenians and Turks side by side at this year's Gay Pride rally in Istanbul. The blog says that the pictures are incredible.... ]\" id=\"f_223994952\">Turkey: Armenians and Turks show Gay Pride
  • Armenia: FrontlineSMS and health care for all (28.07 20:20) By Onnik Krikorian FrontlineSMS says that more than 50,000 alerts on health care service have been sent using its open source software by international development organization Oxfam. The post includes a video report.... ]\" id=\"f_223994953\">Armenia: FrontlineSMS and health care for all
  • Kyrgyzstan: Divergent discourses suggest more is yet to come (28.07 20:20) By Chris Rickleton  Forgive one another, we're all guilty “Forgive one another, we’re all guilty”, begs a sticker and poster campaign doing the rounds in Kyrgyzstan following the recent tragic events in the south of the country which conservative estimates believe claimed over 1,000 lives. But blame, it would seem, is more easily apportioned than shared. In the capital, Bishkek, some of the stic... ]\" id=\"f_223994954\">Kyrgyzstan: Divergent discourses suggest more is yet to come
  • Azerbaijan: Amnesty International campaign for convicted bloggers (22.07 04:53) By Onnik Krikorian Having already recently marked the first anniversary of their initial detention, Amnesty International urges supporters worldwide to lobby the government in Azerbaijan to ensure that imprisoned video blogging youth activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli receive a fair appeal hearing in the coming months.... ]\" id=\"f_223342929\">Azerbaijan: Amnesty International campaign for convicted bloggers

    East Asia

  • China: Karate Kid movie censored (28.07 20:20) By John Kennedy In the latest Karate Kid movie, does Will Smith's kid kick Chinese butt or is he actually the one getting bullied? That depends where you watch it, writes the Shandongxifu blogger.... ]\" id=\"f_223995075\">China: Karate Kid movie censored
  • China: Sino-North Korean relations (28.07 20:20) By John Kennedy With an incident-free Invincible Spirit wrapping up today, don't miss this post from Sinologistical Violoncellist's Adam Cathcart looking at some of the dynamics in the relationship between China and North Korea.... ]\" id=\"f_223995076\">China: Sino-North Korean relations
  • South Korea: A Politician’s ‘Emperor’s Dish’ Enraged Struggling Koreans (28.07 20:20) By Lee Yoo Eun In South Korea, a political campaign that supposed to attract voters went backfire and now is rapidly draining supporters and making ordinary people turn against the politician. It all happened within less than 24 hours when a politician from South Korea’s ruling party described the life of minimum wager as endurable, even ‘not short of emperor’s life’. Cha, Myung Jin, a lawmaker f... ]\" id=\"f_223995077\">South Korea: A Politician’s ‘Emperor’s Dish’ Enraged Struggling Koreans
  • China: Explosion in Nanjing (28.07 20:20) By John Kennedy A ruptured gas main is the reported cause of an explosion (zh) this morning at a plastics factory currently being torn down in NE Nanjing. Injuries are reportedly in the hundreds, while the number of deaths has yet to be confirmed. Free More News has been aggregating links to photos (here also) and video from the scene. Provincial officials have been filmed trying to obstruct news... ]\" id=\"f_223995078\">China: Explosion in Nanjing
  • China: Computer magazine curses at Tencent (28.07 20:20) By Oiwan Lam Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a debate between a magazine, China Computer World, and a giant Internet company, Tencent.... ]\" id=\"f_223995079\">China: Computer magazine curses at Tencent
  • China: Being Gay (28.07 20:20) By Oiwan Lam The angry Chinese blogger explains how the Chinese government controls the gay community from getting too visible in the society. ... ]\" id=\"f_223995080\">China: Being Gay
  • South Korea: The Suicide Twit (28.07 20:20) By Lee Yoo Eun More Koreans are noticing their suicide plans via Twitter, South Korea's internet media NoCut News reported(kr). Most recently a club DJ tweeted ‘I will commit suicide, thank you guys till now' and the police was dipatched to his house. It was later found out that he had not committed suicide. Experts are interpreting the suicide twit as a desperate distress signal for life.... ]\" id=\"f_223995081\">South Korea: The Suicide Twit
  • Taiwan: Film Festival of “Food and People” (28.07 20:20) By Portnoy Zheng Karen Yu announces on okogreen blog that the “2010 Food and People Film Festival”(zht)-co-hosted by fair-trade coffee shops and environmental NGOs-will be showing 4 documentaries on each friday through out September. The 4 documentaries are We Feed The World, Sustainable Table, Bullshit, and Black Gold.... ]\" id=\"f_223995082\">Taiwan: Film Festival of “Food and People”
  • Japan: How to Enjoy Fireworks Displays (28.07 20:20) By Scilla Alecci After a video on Cherry Blossom Viewing (en), the team of Legon produced an instructional animated video on How to Enjoy Fireworks Displays (Hanabi) (en) in Japan. Both in English and Japanese, it illustrates the basics of the firework festivals that often light up the summer night sky in Japan. ... ]\" id=\"f_223995083\">Japan: How to Enjoy Fireworks Displays
  • Indonesia’s fashion bloggers (28.07 20:20) By Mong Palatino The top bloggers in Indonesia are fashion and lifestyle bloggers who are mostly young ladies. Who are they and why are they popular? Multibrand notes that blogs have increased in Indonesia and the most popular blogs deal with fashion …since the blog was introduced in Indonesia in the early 2000, the number of bloggers has increased three times in 2009. What's interesting is that ... ]\" id=\"f_223995084\">Indonesia’s fashion bloggers

    Eastern and Central Europe

  • Russia: “Putin-Jugend” (28.07 20:20) By Veronica Khokhlova Simon Shuster writes for The Huffington Post about a summer camp for Russia's “group-think generation.” ... ]\" id=\"f_223995126\">Russia: “Putin-Jugend”
  • Belarus: Election 2011 (28.07 20:20) By Veronica Khokhlova Notes and updates on the upcoming 2011 presidential election in Belarus - at BelarusDigest (here, here, and here).... ]\" id=\"f_223995127\">Belarus: Election 2011
  • Serbia: More on the Beating of a Journalist in Belgrade (28.07 20:20) By Veronica Khokhlova Anegdote comments on the recent beating of journalist Teofil Pančić in Belgrade: “The government needs thugs, and thugs need the government. The cycle goes on.” (A GV translation on the attack is here.)... ]\" id=\"f_223995128\">Serbia: More on the Beating of a Journalist in Belgrade
  • Serbia, Kosovo: More on ICJ's Ruling (28.07 20:20) By Veronica Khokhlova More commentary on the ICJ's opinion on Kosovo's independence - at A Fistful of Euros, Belgraded, Gray Falcon, and Jamestown Foundation Blog (a GV translation on the subject is here).... ]\" id=\"f_223995129\">Serbia, Kosovo: More on ICJ's Ruling
  • Russia: Blackout of the Social Network Triggers Twitter Panic (28.07 20:20) By Gregory Asmolov The word “vkontakte“, standing for the name of the Russian social network, found itself among top Twitter trends. It happened after millions of Russian users were not able to access (RUS) the social network because of a failure (RUS) of a local power station. Some bloggers started the online panic (RUS), explaining the blackout by the police actions, however, soon the functiona... ]\" id=\"f_223995130\">Russia: Blackout of the Social Network Triggers Twitter Panic
  • Serbia: A Journalist Is Attacked on a Public Bus (28.07 20:20) By Sinisa Boljanovic Teofil Pancic, a well-known journalist of the weekly magazine Vreme (”Time”), was beaten up on a public bus (route #83) in Zemun, one of Belgrade’s municipalities, on Saturday, July 24. According to Vreme, Pancic was attacked by two men who beat him up with metal bars. He was admitted to a hospital where doctors treated him for injuries of his head and right arm. Fortunately,... ]\" id=\"f_223995131\">Serbia: A Journalist Is Attacked on a Public Bus
  • Russia: Privatization revisited (28.07 20:20) By Vilhelm Konnander The Pipeline discusses the announcement of Russia's biggest privatization drive since the 1990s, departing from an article (RUS) in Vedomosti.... ]\" id=\"f_223995132\">Russia: Privatization revisited
  • Russia-Ukraine: Putin the biker (28.07 20:20) By Vilhelm Konnander Siberian Light sums up some reactions to Russian Premier Vladimir Putin's participation in a biker meetup in Ukrainian city of Sevastopol.... ]\" id=\"f_223995133\">Russia-Ukraine: Putin the biker
  • Russia: Interpreting the FSB-law (28.07 20:20) By Vilhelm Konnander A Good Treaty discusses the new Russian FSB-law, extending the powers of the country's security service.... ]\" id=\"f_223995134\">Russia: Interpreting the FSB-law
  • Russia: Reginal Court Blocks YouTube for Extremist Content (28.07 20:20) By Gregory Asmolov Komsomolosk-on-Amur (ENG) city court, at the Russian Far East, ordered local Internet provider “Rosnet” to block access to Youtube and four other websites (including web.archive.org), Cnews reported (RUS). The decision was made due to a request by the city prosecutor's office. YouTube had been blocked because of the nationalist movie “Russia for Russians”. Other websites were b... ]\" id=\"f_223995120\">Russia: Reginal Court Blocks YouTube for Extremist Content

    Middle East and North Africa

  • Morocco: Agharass's New Photography Blog (28.07 22:45) By Jillian C. York Moroccan blogger Agharass is known for having an eclectic blog with posts (in French) on a variety of subjects from Palestine to pop culture, often peppered with the blogger's own photographs. Recently, Agharass launched a photo blog, entitled Portfolio de Agharass! The enticing front page displays stunning photographs from around Morocco, organized like a calendar, while click... ]\" id=\"f_224032672\">Morocco: Agharass's New Photography Blog
  • Egypt: Is Egypt Sinking? (28.07 22:45) By Marwa Rakha The Economist has published a special report on Egypt and her future after President Mubarak who has now being recognized as the 21st century sick man of the Middle East. With this shocking paragraph Zeinobia began her post. Zeinobia starts her commentary saying: This report is very interesting to the level I believe we will not see the magazine in our newsstand next month thanks t... ]\" id=\"f_224032673\">Egypt: Is Egypt Sinking?
  • Israel: Rape by Deceit or Racism? (28.07 22:45) By Gilad Lotan The recent conviction of rape by deceit of an Arab posing as a Jew to seduce a Jewish woman to engage in sexual intercourse has sparked conversations across the Hebrew blogosphere about the dire inequality between Jews and Arabs living in Israel. Many contemplate the meaning of Israeli democracy under racially biased laws. Others remind that it is still illegal for a Jew to marry a... ]\" id=\"f_224032674\">Israel: Rape by Deceit or Racism?
  • Francophonie: Like Fine Wine, Twitter Experience Gets Better With Age (28.07 02:04) By Lova Rakotomalala An unexpected but deliciously nostalgic hash tag, #jesuisvieux, has been trending on the French speaking social media scene. Since July 26th, twitter users have been going down memory lane, posting tweets relating their memories from youth with the hash tag #jesuisvieux ( #Iamold for men) or #jesuisvieille ( #Iamold for women). The timeline for the hashtag was filled ... ]\" id=\"f_223879233\">Francophonie: Like Fine Wine, Twitter Experience Gets Better With Age
  • Iran: Campaign to Free Jailed Photo-Blogger Hamed Saber (27.07 17:41) By Hamid Tehrani More than 70 Iranian university graduates and academics are calling (fa) for the release of Hamed Saber, an Iranian photo-blogger and computer scientist who was arrested for unknown reasons on 21 June 2010 in Tehran while walking in the street. A friend has informed us that it was the first time Hamed was arrested. The same source said several of Hamed's photos of the Iranian p... ]\" id=\"f_223853481\">Iran: Campaign to Free Jailed Photo-Blogger Hamed Saber
  • Algeria: The Origins of the Berbers (27.07 09:38) By Amira Al Hussaini Where did the Berbers originate from? Algerian linguist Lameen Souag attempts an answer here. Please read the comments too. ... ]\" id=\"f_223754280\">Algeria: The Origins of the Berbers
  • Israel: “Oliver Stone is a Nutcase” (27.07 09:38) By Amira Al Hussaini “Oliver Stone is a nutcase,” announces Yael, from Life in Israel. “Oliver Stone has come out with some virulently anti-semitic comments, claiming that Jews control the media, downplayed the Holocaust, defended Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and complained about Jewish influence in the United States…” she continues.... ]\" id=\"f_223754281\">Israel: “Oliver Stone is a Nutcase”
  • Syria: Mariya continues her story-telling (27.07 09:38) By Amira Al Hussaini From Syria, Mariya enchants her readers with another story on history, love and relationships, which she will post in series. This is the first part. ... ]\" id=\"f_223754282\">Syria: Mariya continues her story-telling
  • Egypt: Americans need appointments to visit Embassy (27.07 09:38) By Amira Al Hussaini Joseph Mayton, who is based in Cairo, tweets: “American Embassy in Cairo bars Americans from walk-ins, starts appointment only access to Embassy - down with Embassies!” ... ]\" id=\"f_223754283\">Egypt: Americans need appointments to visit Embassy
  • Yemen: A Tour of Al Mukalla (27.07 09:38) By Amira Al Hussaini From Yemen, Omar takes us on a tour of Al Mukalla here. Click on the link to check out the photographs. ... ]\" id=\"f_223754284\">Yemen: A Tour of Al Mukalla

    Oceania

  • Australians Want More Than Election Slogans (22.07 04:53) By Kevin Rennie (Julia Gillard - digital. © 2010, Andy Dolphin) Just twenty-three days after deposing Kevin Rudd, our ranga (redhead) Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called a general election for 21 August. The Oz blogosphere is looking for substance not just spin in this campaign. Guy Beres in his self-tilted blog hopes that the campaign will go beyond sound bites and catchcries: In her noo... ]\" id=\"f_223343060\">Australians Want More Than Election Slogans
  • Ghana: Journey to Africa (22.07 04:53) By Ndesanjo Macha From Australia to Ghana is a new book by a blogger based in Ghana and Global Voices author, Gayle Pescud. ... ]\" id=\"f_223343061\">Ghana: Journey to Africa
  • Japan: A short documentary-post on Tuvalu (22.07 04:53) By Scilla Alecci Photographer Ken Umemoto dedicates a post (ja) to Tuvalu (en) and the disastrous effects of human intervention and climate change on the island. The post also includes fascinating “auteur photos”,... ]\" id=\"f_223343062\">Japan: A short documentary-post on Tuvalu
  • USA: Indigenous Rights Declaration under Reexamination (08.07 14:31) By Simon Maghakyan Almost three years after rejecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in September 2007, the United States government is now asking for input from Native American leaders, renewing their hopes that the election of President Barack Obama may help open a path to ratification. The declaration calls for “reasonable reparations” for stolen in... ]\" id=\"f_221452224\">USA: Indigenous Rights Declaration under Reexamination
  • Fiji: Will new media laws lead to better reporting? (08.07 14:31) By Michael Hartsell Claiming it will introduce media transparency and responsible reporting, Fiji’s government enacted new media rules, establishing a code of conduct for journalists, strengthening local ownership stipulations and creating a set of fines and prison terms to be levied against reporters and media institutions for potentially breaking guidelines. The wide-ranging decree covers ever... ]\" id=\"f_221452225\">Fiji: Will new media laws lead to better reporting?
  • Global: Statistics on Countries Participating in World Cup (08.07 14:31) By Raphael Tsavkko Garcia SRF from GeoCurrent Events blog writes about the economic geography of the 2010 FIFA World Cup participant countries. ... ]\" id=\"f_221452226\">Global: Statistics on Countries Participating in World Cup
  • Australia: Dramatic Fall of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (29.06 14:51) By Kevin Rennie It was swift and secret. Kevin Rudd has been replaced as Prime Minister of Australia by his deputy Julia Gillard. She is the nation’s first female PM. News of the challenge broke on Wednesday night and Rudd stepped aside the following morning. You can find some background to the dramatic decline in Kevin’s popularity and his fall on my blog. This post looks at other bloggers’ rea... ]\" id=\"f_219867235\">Australia: Dramatic Fall of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
  • Australians Challenge Afghanistan War Commitment (29.06 14:51) By Kevin Rennie Even before Barack Obama sacked General McCrystal, Australia bloggers were questioning the commitment of troops to the Afghanistan war. This has intensified with the deaths of five soldiers in the last couple of weeks. Defence Minister John Faulkner has urged Australians to keep supporting the war in Afghanistan after the deaths of five soldiers in just two weeks. …”It is absolu... ]\" id=\"f_219867236\">Australians Challenge Afghanistan War Commitment
  • East Timor: Expansion of the Energy Sector under Discussion (23.06 23:03) By Janet Gunter The past months in East Timor have revealed serious tensions between Timorese leaders, Australia, and Woodside, the multinational company hoping to profit from new petroleum resources in Timorese territory. Don Voelte, the CEO of Woodside Petroleum, visited Dili last month, and was not warmly received by the Timorese government including Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão. President Ram... ]\" id=\"f_218882551\">East Timor: Expansion of the Energy Sector under Discussion
  • Fiji: Tackling the land tenure issue (18.06 10:17) By Michael Hartsell Because of its ties to ethnicity, culture and a growing import food bill, land tenure is one of Fiji’s most pressing problems. The country’s military-backed government will soon attempt to reform the country’s land tenure system, which has largely remained untouched since the mid-1970s, shortly after independence from Great Britain. By law and through very complicated traditi... ]\" id=\"f_218110804\">Fiji: Tackling the land tenure issue

    South Asia

  • Bangladesh: Minimum Wages Raised In Garments Sector (28.07 20:20) By Rezwan They make your Tshirts. Image by Flickr User Niloy. CC BY Ever wonder where were your T-shirts or pants made? If you are living in North America or in Western Europe, there is a high chance that you are wearing a cloth made in Bangladesh. And no wonder Bangladesh’s export earnings are mostly determined by the export of ready-made garments (RMG) which is about 75% of the total export ear... ]\" id=\"f_223995060\">Bangladesh: Minimum Wages Raised In Garments Sector
  • India: Shortage Of Nepali Labors In Himachal Pradesh (28.07 20:20) By Rezwan Nityin at Himachal Live blog reports that the farmers in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh are facing problems as there is a shortage of Nepali migrant labors in this year's pick Apple season. ... ]\" id=\"f_223995061\">India: Shortage Of Nepali Labors In Himachal Pradesh
  • India: RTI Activist Murdered (28.07 20:20) By Aparna Ray On the 20th of this month, 33 year old Amit Jethwa, a prominent environmentalist and Right to Information (RTI) activist was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen opposite the Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad. His murder comes just a few days after he had filed a public interest litigation in the Gujarat High Court naming Bharatiya Janata Party member of parliament, Dinu Solanki as on... ]\" id=\"f_223995062\">India: RTI Activist Murdered
  • Sri Lanka: A King Or A CEO (28.07 20:20) By Rezwan Going Global thinks that Sri Lanka needs an administrator like a King or a CEO at the nation's helm who will implement a long term plan “with no incentive to engage in short-termist crowd pleasing development”.... ]\" id=\"f_223995063\">Sri Lanka: A King Or A CEO
  • India: Why Businesses Must Embrace Social Media (28.07 20:20) By Rezwan Komal-Nishka Manglani at Blog Adda explains why businesses must embrace social media.... ]\" id=\"f_223995064\">India: Why Businesses Must Embrace Social Media
  • Pakistan: In Damage Control Mode After WikiLeaks (28.07 20:20) By Rezwan Effendi at The Spittoon comments: “the Pakistan government has gone into damage control mode after the evidence of the ISI’s involvement in Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan was exposed and confirmed on WikiLeaks.”... ]\" id=\"f_223995065\">Pakistan: In Damage Control Mode After WikiLeaks
  • Bhutan: Equality For Women (28.07 20:20) By Rezwan Cho at Writers Association Of Bhutan Blog advocates for equality for women in Bhutanese societies and comments: “sad to say but sexism in Bhutan starts from homes and parents yell at their daughters for not cooking a delicious meal till she finally perfects it.”... ]\" id=\"f_223995066\">Bhutan: Equality For Women
  • Nepal: An Indigenous Leader As Prime Minister? (28.07 20:20) By Rezwan Narahang at KitaitiSaathi opines that the Nepali politicians should be bold enough to consider a native leader while electing the next Prime Minister of Nepal.... ]\" id=\"f_223995067\">Nepal: An Indigenous Leader As Prime Minister?
  • Bangladesh: Five Million CFLs In A Day (28.07 20:20) By Rezwan Ashok Sarkar reports that last month five million high quality CFL bulbs were distributed to Bangladeshi homes under “Efficient Lighting Initiatives of Bangladesh (ELIB)” program breaking a new world record.... ]\" id=\"f_223995068\">Bangladesh: Five Million CFLs In A Day
  • India: Should Prostitution be legalized? (28.07 20:20) By Rezwan Delhizen raises an old debate: should prostitution be legalized in India?... ]\" id=\"f_223995069\">India: Should Prostitution be legalized?

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  • Nigeria: Reflections from AIDS2010 (28.07 19:01) By Ndesanjo Macha Nigerian blogger's reflections of AIDS2010: “It has been my pleasure to share with you some of my reflections from AIDS2010, from a Nigerian perspective. I have not covered in detail a lot of the interesting scientific issues emerging from the conference.”... ]\" id=\"f_223995090\">Nigeria: Reflections from AIDS2010
  • Nigeria: 50 years of hopelessness (28.07 18:59) By Ndesanjo Macha Adeola writes about Nigerias “50 years of hopelessness”: “We have complained that it is morally wrong for Nigeria to celebrate the 50th year anniversary in an ostentatious manner because of the resounding failure of the various governments since 1960.”... ]\" id=\"f_223995091\">Nigeria: 50 years of hopelessness
  • Zimbabwe: Constitutional Outreach (28.07 18:55) By Ndesanjo Macha Bev Clark reports that constitutional outreach meetings held by the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition in Zimbabwe. ... ]\" id=\"f_223995092\">Zimbabwe: Constitutional Outreach
  • Francophonie: Like Fine Wine, Twitter Experience Gets Better With Age (28.07 00:51) By Lova Rakotomalala An unexpected but deliciously nostalgic hash tag, #jesuisvieux, has been trending on the French speaking social media scene. Since July 26th, twitter users have been going down memory lane, posting tweets relating their memories from youth with the hash tag #jesuisvieux ( I am old - men) or #jesuisvieille ( I am old - women). The timeline for the hashtag was filled wi... ]\" id=\"f_223995093\">Francophonie: Like Fine Wine, Twitter Experience Gets Better With Age
  • Ghanaian beaches worth exploring (27.07 00:46) By Elia Varela Serra Maameous recommends a few Ghanaian beaches worth exploring.... ]\" id=\"f_223995094\">Ghanaian beaches worth exploring
  • Côte d'Ivoire: Journalists accused of document theft are freed (26.07 23:38) By Elia Varela Serra The three journalists of Le Nouveau Courrier d'Abidjan arrested for refusing to reveal their sources have been finally released (Fr) this evening after a two-week ordeal. On July 13th, Le Nouveau Courrier published an investigative report on the coffee and cocoa export trade in Côte d'Ivoire, which provoked a police raid in the newspaper offices. Since they didn't find the ba... ]\" id=\"f_223995095\">Côte d'Ivoire: Journalists accused of document theft are freed
  • South Africa: What would you ask God if you had the chance? (26.07 15:11) By Ndesanjo Macha Sun hides behind clouds, by Dan A'Vard Last week, South African blogger Khaya Dhlanga asked people on the “Internets” what they would ask God if he said they could ask him anything. He has posted some of the questions sent by his readers: The questions were poignant, funny, moving and some just plain silly, all appreciated of course. The questions, responses/comments were inter... ]\" id=\"f_223995096\">South Africa: What would you ask God if you had the chance?
  • Mali, Mauritania: Hostage Michel Germaneau Killed in Failed Raid as Tension Rises (26.07 00:58) By Lova Rakotomalala A French-Mauritanian raid to free French aid worker Michel Germaneau inside Malian territory has raised tension (Fr) between the two nations, Diaspora Sahauri blog reports. The 78-year-old engineer Germaneau was killed after the failed attempt to free him.... ]\" id=\"f_223995097\">Mali, Mauritania: Hostage Michel Germaneau Killed in Failed Raid as Tension Rises
  • São Tomé & Principe: Political Background for a Voting Day (25.07 22:02) By Sara Moreira The 25th of July 2010 is a voting day for local and regional government in São Tomé & Príncipe. Blog OPLOP posts a report about the political system and the current electoral situation in a country that celebrates its 35th anniversary this month (pt).... ]\" id=\"f_223995098\">São Tomé & Principe: Political Background for a Voting Day
  • Africa's Hunger Hardships Spur Biotech Debate (25.07 12:46) By Juhie Bhatia This post was commissioned as part of a Pulitzer Center/Global Voices Online series on Food Insecurity that draw on multimedia reporting featured on the Pulitzer Gateway to Food Insecurity. Share your own story here. Sunset over farmland in South Africa by Irene2005 on Flickr While there have been significant increases in agricultural productivity in Asia and Latin America over th... ]\" id=\"f_223995099\">Africa's Hunger Hardships Spur Biotech Debate

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  • Georgia and Ivan on BBC’s Pods and Blogs (09.07 12:15) Posted 0 minutes ago terribly early in the morning by oso Georgia and Ivan were on BBC’s Pods & Blogs show a couple days ago discussing the past, present, and future of Global Voices. I have made a track of just their segment in order to save my esteemed readers from having to listen to a piece on virtual guide dogs in Second Life. Georgia in MiamiIvan in AmsterdamYou can listen to the entire show... ]\" id=\"f_36110505\">Georgia and Ivan on BBC’s Pods and Blogs
  • Jornalistas não entendem as mídias sociais (08.07 14:14) Por Carine Roos, jornalista e estudante de sociologia A pesquisa “As percepções dos jornalistas da EBC sobre mídias sociais” surgiu a partir da constatação de que no Brasil não há pleno diálogo entre os cidadãos repórteres (mídias sociais) e as mídias convencionais. A efetiva interação é entendida nesse estudo quando uma mídia convencional cita, publica ou agrega a notícia realizada pelo cidad... ]\" id=\"f_35111339\">Jornalistas não entendem as mídias sociais
  • Tunisia: Facebook user jailed for spreading rumors liable to disrupt public order (08.07 12:41) Written for Global Voices On Saturday, July 4, 2009, The 8th Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance in Tunis has condemned a retired professor, Dr Khedija Arfaoui , to eight months in prison for spreading rumors, on the social networking website Facebook, liable to disrupt public order. Dr Khedija Arfaoui , a feminist retired professor at the Manouba University in Tunis, was... ]\" id=\"f_34983751\">Tunisia: Facebook user jailed for spreading rumors liable to disrupt public order
  • Activist media and selective amplifiers (08.07 00:31) Those of us interested in social media and political organizing have had a lot to pay attention to in recent weeks. Demonstrations in the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities have apparently been squelched, but #IranElection still remains a popular tag on Twitter (roughly a tenth as popular as during peak days of the protests.) Riots in Urumqi were briefly broadcast via citizen media, and th... ]\" id=\"f_34555270\">Activist media and selective amplifiers
  • Translation Exchange Project – traduzioni multi-lingue aperte e condivise (07.07 10:35) Ti sei mai chiesto come sia possibile costruire e gestire un progetto di traduzioni multi-lingue aperto? Come tradurre qualsiasi cosa in modalità crowdsourcing , da una poesia haiku a un complicato testo letterario? A latere della recente conferenza Open Translation Tools di Amsterdam, Global Voices lancia un nuovo progetto, basato su una comunità online per lo scambio di traduzioni aperte ... ]\" id=\"f_34153573\">Translation Exchange Project – traduzioni multi-lingue aperte e condivise
  • Global Voices y las nuevas voces (06.07 16:34) Desde hace varios años, colaboro con Global Voices , una red de bloggers que se ocupa de cubrir el mundo a partir de dar cuenta de que manera los blogs cubren determinados acontecimientos. Es una idea muy interesante: nada más global y distribuido a la vez que los blogs . Por ello, podemos tener coberturas de casi cualquier acontecimiento relevante. A esto hay que sumar una red de traductores,... ]\" id=\"f_33036320\">Global Voices y las nuevas voces
  • Swedish sub hits Russian ground (06.07 10:06) Amid heated Swedish debate on the existence of a Russian Cold War sub threat, a Swedish sub this morning hit Russian ground. Information about the incidence is still scarce, but according to unnamed sources, the grounding may have been caused by a combination of overweight and shallowness. Witnesses also report rumbling from the sub's hull, indicating lack of fuel. As of this time, no official... ]\" id=\"f_33036321\">Swedish sub hits Russian ground
  • Moldy cheese, medieval instruments, and just enough beer… (04.07 15:53) Walking through his hometown of Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city, 26-year-old Narek Barseghyan still attracts looks from fellow residents for his unruly hair and an earring worn in what still remains a noticeably traditional and conservative society. Gyumri is slightly different from the rest of the country, however, and is not only suffering from a closed border with Turkey, but also from th... ]\" id=\"f_31038869\">Moldy cheese, medieval instruments, and just enough beer…
  • Veracity in action; Startup AllVoices.com helps set the record straight (03.07 22:29) Improving the truthfulness and accuracy of citizen reporting is the new initiative being floated by San Francisco-based startup, AllVoices.com with the debut of a new credibility algorithm and payment plan for bloggers. The new system will pay anywhere from 25 cents to $2 for every thousand page views. AllVoices is charting some impressive stats, with 33,000 landing pages for countries, cities a... ]\" id=\"f_30676604\">Veracity in action; Startup AllVoices.com helps set the record straight

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  • The Need for Cultural Translation with Community Media - MediaShift Idea Lab (blog) (26.07 20:39) The Need for Cultural Translation with Community MediaMediaShift Idea Lab (blog)The TED talk of Ethan Zuckerman, the founder of the international blogging site Global Voices, provides amazing ...... ]\" id=\"f_223994983\"> The Need for Cultural Translation with Community Media - MediaShift Idea Lab (blog)
  • Liveblog of global reactions to Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs - Global Voices Online (blog) (26.07 19:16) Telegraph.co.ukLiveblog of global reactions to Wikileaks Afghanistan war logsGlobal Voices Online (blog)All Global Voices contributors have access to the live blog if they wish to share links. We recommend you use Google Chrome or a recent version of Firefox ...Julian Assange of Wikileaks Promotes Print, Disses Digital in Latest LeakFast CompanyEDITORIAL:The leaky cauldronDaily Timesall 7,882 news... ]\" id=\"f_223994981\"> Liveblog of global reactions to Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs - Global Voices Online (blog)
  • Anti-stoning lawyer wanted - Jerusalem Post (26.07 16:36) Sky NewsAnti-stoning lawyer wantedJerusalem Post“He's on the run,” Hamid Tehrani, the Iran editor of Global Voices, an aggregator of citizen journalism, told The Media Line. “They didn't arrest him, ...Sakineh and NedaHuffington Post (blog)all 109 news articles »... ]\" id=\"f_223994982\"> Anti-stoning lawyer wanted - Jerusalem Post
  • Biases of social media - IBTimes (23.07 14:26) IBTimesBiases of social mediaIBTimesEthan Zuckerman, speaker at the TedGlobal July 2010 conference in Oxford, England, and co-founder of Global Voices, says social media has failed to help ...... ]\" id=\"f_223994984\"> Biases of social media - IBTimes
  • 'Governments Are Not Going to Change This. We Have To': Antony Loewenstein on ... - The Indypendent (21.07 18:05) The Indypendent'Governments Are Not Going to Change This. We Have To': Antony Loewenstein on ...The IndypendentIt often takes more effort, sometimes, for those who don't write in English to be read, and so a blog like Global Voices often does translation, ...und weitere »... ]\" id=\"f_223342919\"> 'Governments Are Not Going to Change This. We Have To': Antony Loewenstein on ... - The Indypendent
  • The impossible task of blocking websites - Bangkok Post (20.07 22:00) Bangkok PostThe impossible task of blocking websitesBangkok PostGlobal Voices Advocacy, an anti-censorship network, recently claimed that Thailand has blocked at least 113000 websites deemed as threats to national ...und weitere »... ]\" id=\"f_223342918\"> The impossible task of blocking websites - Bangkok Post
  • Azerbaijanis and Armenians Build Blog Dialogue - EurasiaNet (20.07 19:28) History of TruthAzerbaijanis and Armenians Build Blog DialogueEurasiaNetThe project is managed by British journalist Onnik Krikorian, the Yerevan-based Caucasus editor for Global Voices Online. By Scary Azeri The first time I ...Armenia-Azerbaijan: Bloggers build dialogueGlobal Voices Online (blog)Alle 89 Artikel »... ]\" id=\"f_223342920\"> Azerbaijanis and Armenians Build Blog Dialogue - EurasiaNet
  • Global Voices: Fashion designers bust burqa stereotypes - Toronto Star (19.07 06:42) Global Voices: Fashion designers bust burqa stereotypesToronto StarBy Craig and Marc Kielburger Global Voices As France takes steps towards banning the burqa, Paris designers are staging their own unveilings in the Middle ...und weitere »... ]\" id=\"f_223342916\"> Global Voices: Fashion designers bust burqa stereotypes - Toronto Star
  • Listening to global voices - Aljazeera.net (18.07 13:19) Consumer TechListening to global voicesAljazeera.netThough Ethan Zuckerman did not coin the term bridge blogger, in the years since he co-founded Global Voices Onlinewith Rebecca MacKinnon, ...Is The Internet Making Us Narrower?ElectronicsWeekly.com (blog)Harvard academic claims world wide web is narrower than everConsumer TechAlle 5 Artikel »... ]\" id=\"f_223342917\"> Listening to global voices - Aljazeera.net
  • Bahrain: Aufhören! - Readersedition (16.07 10:16) Bahrain: Aufhören!ReaderseditionDieser Beitrag erschien zuerst auf Global Voices. Die Übersetzung erfolgte durch Hans H. Knauf, Teil des “Project Lingua”. Die Veröffentlichung auf der ...... ]\" id=\"f_223342915\"> Bahrain: Aufhören! - Readersedition

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  • To Facebook or Not to Facebook! (12.03 10:01) To Facebook or Not to Facebook!Ramai yang bertanya kenapa hang tak de lagi Facebook. Ada juga yang terperanjat, bila aku sebut tak berminat (buat masa ni). Facebook antara aplikasi web2.0 (ada yang sebut 3.0) yang paling melonjak naik waktu ini - tak kira muda mahupun tua! Dengan Facebook, Obama berinteraksi dengan generasi muda ...Read the full post from dPerantauanTags: Current Affairs, Weblogs,... ]\" id=\"f_22046754\">To Facebook or Not to Facebook!
  • China, U.S. pledge joint efforts against protectionism (12.03 08:54) China, U.S. pledge joint efforts against protectionismChina and the United States on Wednesday vowed to join hands in fighting trade protectionism amid the ongoing global financial crisis and economic downturn. Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and U.S. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner voiced their opposition against trade protectioni...Read the full post from China via Blogdi... ]\" id=\"f_22046755\">China, U.S. pledge joint efforts against protectionism
  • Senator says Obama driven on climate (12.03 07:06) Senator says Obama driven on climateAgence France-Presse: One of the US Senate's top campaigners against global warming on Wednesday sought to ease international concerns, vowing President Barack Obama was committed to action on climate change. Some European nations have voiced uncertainty about whether Obama and the US Congress can f...Read the full post from Climate Ark Climate Change & Global W... ]\" id=\"f_22046756\">Senator says Obama driven on climate
  • Jakada Imani: A Green (and Brown) Voice in the White House (12.03 07:05) Jakada Imani: A Green (and Brown) Voice in the White HouseBy now you've probably heard the good news that Van Jones will join the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) as its Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. Needless to say, we here at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights are ecstatic. It was just 13 years ago that ...Read the full post from The Full Feed f... ]\" id=\"f_22046757\">Jakada Imani: A Green (and Brown) Voice in the White House
  • Non-German Reviews of Pope's Jesus-Book (Updated) (12.03 05:04) Non-German Reviews of Pope's Jesus-Book (Updated)Writing from the Philippines, Lode Wostyn situates the Pope’s book within the development of Christology after Vatican II (East Asian Pastoral Review 45.1, 2008). “Ratzinger’s Christology goes beyond the Councils of Nicaea-Chalcedon by simply erasing all the disagreements and ambiguities that ...Read the full post from Joseph S. O'Leary homepa... ]\" id=\"f_22604754\">Non-German Reviews of Pope's Jesus-Book (Updated)
  • Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/11/2009 (12.03 04:29) Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/11/2009Remember the wind-powered rotating skyscrapers of Dubai? Well, the building boom in the Emirates is over, thanks to the financial crisis. Most of the huge and expensive construction projects have been cancelled or are on hold. Not only that, foreign laborers are being laid off at an astounding rate ...Read the full post from Gates of Vienna via Blogdigger blog... ]\" id=\"f_22604755\">Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/11/2009
  • 2009 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILM SELECTIONS FOR ENCOUNTERS, SPOTLIGHT, SHOWCASE, RESTORED/R... (12.03 01:03) 2009 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILM SELECTIONS FOR ENCOUNTERS, SPOTLIGHT, SHOWCASE, RESTORED/REDISCOVERED, AND MIDNIGHT SECTIONSThe out of competition films have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival and the movie selections feature Tribeca debuts from Sundance alums like  Steven Soderbergh, Raymond De Filleta and  Melissa Leo. Tribeca is starting to appear more like Sundance after ... ]\" id=\"f_21974521\">2009 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILM SELECTIONS FOR ENCOUNTERS, SPOTLIGHT, SHOWCASE, RESTORED/REDISCOVERED, AND MIDNIGHT SECTIONS
  • A WAVE of LOVE, A MONTHY GLOBAL WISH for PEACE ~ MEDITATION, PRAYER OR LIGHT ~ INTENTION EVENT - Mar... (12.03 00:00) A WAVE of LOVE, A MONTHY GLOBAL WISH for PEACE ~ MEDITATION, PRAYER OR LIGHT ~ INTENTION EVENT - Mar 11,2009THE TIME IS NOW ...so LET's BEGIN ~ PEACE in OUR LIFETIME has always Intended to gather a Community with an Aligned Global Intention FOR PEACE. By linking, all People, all Nations, Cultures, beliefs & non beliefs UNITING in one moment, one intention as ONE VOICE ~ In stillness from the heart... ]\" id=\"f_22046758\">A WAVE of LOVE, A MONTHY GLOBAL WISH for PEACE ~ MEDITATION, PRAYER OR LIGHT ~ INTENTION EVENT - Mar 11,2009
  • eBay Lays Out 3-Year Growth Plan; Refocusing On PayPal (Voices) (11.03 23:58) eBay Lays Out 3-Year Growth Plan; Refocusing On PayPal (Voices)At a time when most companies aren’t willing to offer guidance on the March quarter, eBay (EBAY) is laying out its vision for 2011. And what it sees is a big opportunity for PayPal. In connection with the company’s analyst meeting today, eBay said its growth will be drive by its two core busines...Read the full post from All Things... ]\" id=\"f_22046759\">eBay Lays Out 3-Year Growth Plan; Refocusing On PayPal (Voices)
  • Preliminary Report of a National Survey of School Leaders on the Use of Web 2.0 in Schools (11.03 23:40) Preliminary Report of a National Survey of School Leaders on the Use of Web 2.0 in SchoolsThese are my notes from a COSN 2009 session, “Preliminary Report of a National Survey of School Leaders on the Use of Web 2.0 in Schools” on March 11, 2009, in Austin, Texas. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Key question for CoSN: “So What?” from Cheryl Lemke - th...Read the full post from Moving ... ]\" id=\"f_22046760\">Preliminary Report of a National Survey of School Leaders on the Use of Web 2.0 in Schools

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  • ME AND OPHELIA (25.08 18:51) and reports on global voices debating citizen journalism vs. mainstream media and how the media is changing. The BBC's We Media blog provides live coverage... ]\" id=\"f_3217947\">ME AND OPHELIA
  • ByMe.co.uk (25.08 02:35) rangers. Global voices Technorati is like a search engine that keeps track of what is happening in the blogosphere, the name given to the universe... ]\" id=\"f_3209051\">ByMe.co.uk
  • Far Outliers (21.08 02:36) rûch'im Global Voices Frog in a Well Far Outliers WP The Dynamist Dumneazu Dienekes' Anthro Danny Reviews Daniel Drezner Crooked... ]\" id=\"f_3137591\">Far Outliers
  • White Llama (11.08 06:01) here before, Global Voices is one of my favourite websites. It collates world voices in a way that amazes me - volunteers who manage to put together... ]\" id=\"f_2971305\">White Llama
  • Global Warming Skeptics Advance, Says Inhofe -- 08/03/2007 (05.08 13:16) the dissenting voices. He then named a host of scientists from around the world who are critical of global warming, including MIT's professor of... ]\" id=\"f_2867140\">Global Warming Skeptics Advance, Says Inhofe -- 08/03/2007
  • allAfrica.com: TED Global 2007 (05.08 13:14) the event and Global Voices Online's Ethan Zuckerman blogged the conference as it happened. Blogging TED: Introducing Africa 2.0 TED, Day 1 TED... ]\" id=\"f_2867139\">allAfrica.com: TED Global 2007
  • TheStar.com - News (03.08 10:16) | Ideas | Global Voices | Obituaries Many feared dead in river VIDEO: The bridge collapses REUTERS Divers checked submerged cars in the... ]\" id=\"f_2837042\">TheStar.com - News
  • TheStar.com - GTA - Hot weather not global warming, climatologist says (03.08 10:15) | Ideas | Global Voices | Obituaries TheStar.com - GTA - Hot weather not global warming, climatologist says Hot weather not global warming,... ]\" id=\"f_2837041\">TheStar.com - GTA - Hot weather not global warming, climatologist says
  • book and sword : gratitude and revenge (03.08 02:25) eswn ethan fons global voices hometaping jennifer lessig m law mackie milo rebecca ricebowls roseline virtual china wei... ]\" id=\"f_2831562\">book and sword : gratitude and revenge
  • Life and War with Mikey Fatboy Delgado (01.08 22:20) us frizzy logic global voices Guardian Guardian Review Karmalised Lenin's Tomb Never Too Late! NewLeftReview other women's voices - someone will... ]\" id=\"f_2808849\">Life and War with Mikey Fatboy Delgado

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  • They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby (05.11 15:06) They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby Author: Paul Findley By Lawrence Hill & Co Average Customer Review: ( 88 customer reviews ) List Price: $18.95 Price: $12.89 Your Save: $6.06 (32%) 35 Used & new from $11.64 Tag:...... ]\" id=\"f_4569005\">They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby
  • The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice (05.11 07:38) The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice Author: Vaclav Havel Publisher: Knopf (May 20, 1997) Average Customer Review: ( 3 customer reviews ) List Price: $24.00 16 Used & new from $69.91 Tag: Book Similar Product Open Letters:...... ]\" id=\"f_4562614\">The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice
  • Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (05.11 06:52) Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy Author: Kevin Bales Publisher: University of California Press Average Customer Review: ( 17 customer reviews ) List Price: $19.95 56 Used & new from $15.40 Tag: Book Similar Product Understanding...... ]\" id=\"f_4562616\">Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
  • U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Clinton II (05.11 06:41) By David Roberts My first impression of Clinton was that he'd just woken up, or that he was under the weather. He had a little bedhead, his voice was a bit croaky, and he was speaking slowly. This definitely wasn't the virtuoso Clinton of the 1998...... ]\" id=\"f_4566589\">U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Clinton II
  • Why Do I Blog? (05.11 05:48) Received this tag from Era .  Thanks a lot! I started blogging when someone mentioned to me, why won’t I make blog where people can comment without signing in.  I think he got that idea to asked me because he has read entries in my Friendster...... ]\" id=\"f_4569006\">Why Do I Blog?
  • Telecommunications Software (05.11 05:30) Telecommunications Software & Systems Group The Telecommunications Software & Systems Group is a do study centre based at Waterford Institute of Technology. Its chief do study attract is telecommunications management and dispersed software navy...... ]\" id=\"f_4565068\">Telecommunications Software
  • Indian Children Toiling to Make Clothes for Global Fashion Industry - Voice of America (Fashion News... (05.11 04:31) Voice of America Indian Children Toiling to Make Clothes for Global Fashion Industry Voice of America - Oct 29, 2007 Revelations of cases where children in India are making clothes for the multi-billion dollar fashion industry garner considerable...... ]\" id=\"f_4565069\">Indian Children Toiling to Make Clothes for Global Fashion Industry - Voice of America (Fashion News)
  • Global Drum Project (05.11 04:20) Global Drum Project Publisher: Shout Factory (October 2, 2007) Average Customer Review: ( 4 customer reviews ) List Price: $18.97 Price: $13.99 Your Save: $4.98 (26%) 31 Used & new from $10.59 Tag: Music Similar Product Planet Drum Supralingua...... ]\" id=\"f_4561021\">Global Drum Project
  • Spas San Francisco (05.11 03:54) Related Articles about spas san francisco Tony Cuccio of Cuccio Naturale spoke at the Face & Body Spa & Healthy Aging Conference and Expo in San Francisco .(SUPPLIER NEWS) From Global Cosmetic Industry on 11/01/2006 Tony Cuccio of Cuccio Naturale...... ]\" id=\"f_4564008\">Spas San Francisco

    Findory

  • Big redesign at Google News (10.07 00:34) It has been widely reported that Google News has done a major redesign -- its first since 2002 apparently -- to more prominently feature personalization and customization.Before I comment on it, in the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I am absurdly biased on this particular topic, having run Findory and talked at length over the years with Google, their partners, and their competitor... ]\" id=\"f_221723779\">Big redesign at Google News
  • Google to personalize metashopping (22.06 17:44) In an interview with CNet, Googler Sameer Samat talks about Google's future plans for shopping search, including personalization and recommendations.An excerpt:One thing Google doesn't do very well is provide the shopping-as-adventure experience ... You might go to the mall with a specific product in mind, but a well-designed mall ... forces you to discover -- and hopefully purchase -- other produ... ]\" id=\"f_219065137\">Google to personalize metashopping
  • Google on presentation bias in search (14.06 18:17) A few Googlers at WWW 2010 had a paper, Beyond Position Bias: Examining Result Attractiveness as a Source of Presentation Bias in Clickthrough Data (PDF), that explores how much people tend to click on eye-catching search results rather than seeking the most relevant search results.The work itself was pretty simple -- just looking at how bolding title and abstract terms changes clickthough rates..... ]\" id=\"f_217890608\">Google on presentation bias in search
  • Travel itineraries from Flickr photo trails (08.06 23:39) Every once in a while, you hit a paper that seems like a startup waiting to happen. A paper that will be presented next week at HT 2010 by Yahoo Research is one of these.The paper, Automatic Construction of Travel Itineraries using Social Breadcrumbs (PDF), cleverly uses the data often embedded in Flickr photos (e.g. timestamp, tags, sometimes GPS) to produce trails of where people have been in..... ]\" id=\"f_217103838\">Travel itineraries from Flickr photo trails
  • A Findory buyout offer from Yahoo? (07.06 18:38) I just received this check from Yahoo payable to Findory.com:... ]\" id=\"f_217103839\">A Findory buyout offer from Yahoo?
  • How Bing predicts the CTR of ads (01.06 23:28) An upcoming ICML 2010 paper, Web-Scale Bayesian Click-Through Rate Prediction for Sponsored Search Advertising in Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine, describes the algorithm actually used in the Bing search engine to predict the clickthrough rates of ads.From the paper:Recognising the importance of CTR estimation for online advertising ... Bing/adCenter decided to run a competition to entice people ..... ]\" id=\"f_216181435\">How Bing predicts the CTR of ads
  • Geeking with Greg administrivia (20.05 18:17) This blog passed some fun milestones recently. It just had its six year anniversary, logging over 1500 posts in its lifetime.When I started this blog in 2004, I wanted to bring personalization to information. Just as personalization and recommendations help people discover what they want in a massive product catalog, I thought personalization and recommendations could help tame the information s... ]\" id=\"f_214013338\">Geeking with Greg administrivia
  • Yahoo as an internet information filter (14.05 18:28) Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is talking up personalization again, this time in an amusingly titled Esquire article:When you talk about the Internet growing to 225 million sites, you've got to ask: Who's parsing all that? How do you make sense of all that stuff?I mean, who has time to wander all over the Internet?Tomorrow's Yahoo! is going to be really tailored. I'm not talking about organization — organi... ]\" id=\"f_212917086\">Yahoo as an internet information filter
  • Google tries to save the news (12.05 04:20) James Fallows at The Atlantic has a new article out, How to Save the News, on what Googlers think about the future of the news industry.Some key excerpts:If you were starting from scratch, you could never possibly justify (the current) business model, (Google Chief Economist) Hal Varian said ... Grow trees -- then grind them up, and truck big rolls of paper down from Canada? Then run them thr... ]\" id=\"f_212525116\">Google tries to save the news
  • Facebook's moves and personalized advertising (30.04 23:07) It has been widely reported that Facebook has launched Open Graph and Implicit Personalization, which, among other things, give Facebook information about people's movements and what they like on the web. The service was launched opt-out and, even if you do want to opt-out, requires diving into confusing privacy settings to opt-out.The prolific discussion of this elsewhere has thoroughly exhauste... ]\" id=\"f_210655442\">Facebook's moves and personalized advertising

    Yahoo News

  • Davos 2010: Deutsche's Ackermann leads bankers' fightback against political attack (Daily Telegraph) (27.01 13:55) Banking leaders at Davos have added their voices to growing disquiet about the way global banking is becoming a target of political attack.... ]\" id=\"f_192552349\">Davos 2010: Deutsche's Ackermann leads bankers' fightback against political attack (Daily Telegraph)
  • Zimbabwe : Constitution - It's Not to Settle Old Scores (AllAfrica.com) (27.01 08:49) allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience... ]\" id=\"f_192552350\">Zimbabwe : Constitution - It's Not to Settle Old Scores (AllAfrica.com)
  • Fact Check: Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Radio Ad Uses Bogus Global Warming Data (Shepherd Exp... (27.01 06:12) Right-wing think tank supplied error-filled study A new radio ad sponsored by the right-wing Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC)—attacking the proposed Clean Energy Jobs Act, just introduced in the state Legislature—is, as usual, full of misinformation. Voices of...... ]\" id=\"f_192552347\">Fact Check: Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Radio Ad Uses Bogus Global Warming Data (Shepherd Express)
  • From Riyadh to Berlin: Saudi Artists Launch World Tour at the Global Competitiveness Forum 2010 (Art... (27.01 04:49) EOA Gallery. RIYADH.- Edge of Arabia , a groundbreaking cultural initiative, promoting and empowering contemporary artists from Saudi Arabia, launched today its world tour at the Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF), held in Riyadh’s iconic Kingdom Tower under the patronage of The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz.... ]\" id=\"f_192552348\">From Riyadh to Berlin: Saudi Artists Launch World Tour at the Global Competitiveness Forum 2010 (Art Daily)
  • Lords: privatise BBC Worldwide (Guardian Unlimited) (27.01 02:22) House of Lords report on British film and TV demands partial privatisation of BBC commercial arm and children's TV tax break The BBC should be forced to part-privatise BBC Worldwide, turning its commercial arm into a global distributor of British content, according to a House of Lords report into the future of the British film and television industry published today. According to the Lords ...... ]\" id=\"f_192552351\">Lords: privatise BBC Worldwide (Guardian Unlimited)
  • Premiere Global Services Launches New PGi Brand (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) (26.01 22:08) Leading Expert in Collaboration Technology for Meetings Focuses on New Customer Experience Reflecting Easy, Live, Cool Connectivity... ]\" id=\"f_192348913\">Premiere Global Services Launches New PGi Brand (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
  • IMF says global economy to grow 3.9 percent in 2009 (Independent Online) (26.01 15:55) The International Monetary Fund said the global economy was poised to grow more strongly than previously anticipated this year, by 3.9 percent.... ]\" id=\"f_192323955\">IMF says global economy to grow 3.9 percent in 2009 (Independent Online)
  • Yen Declines as Obama Voices ‘Strongest Support’ for Bernanke (Bloomberg) (26.01 03:03) Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The yen fell against all major counterparts as U.S. President Barack Obama said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke “has my strongest support” for a second term, boosting demand for higher-yielding currencies.... ]\" id=\"f_192323957\">Yen Declines as Obama Voices ‘Strongest Support’ for Bernanke (Bloomberg)
  • Q&A: World Economic Forum 2010 (BBC News) (26.01 01:02) For the 40th time more than 2,000 global leaders are meeting in the Swiss resort of Davos - so what is it all about?... ]\" id=\"f_192323961\">Q&A: World Economic Forum 2010 (BBC News)
  • Premiere Global Services Launches New PGi Brand (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) (25.01 19:48) ATLANTA----Premiere Global Services, Inc. is unveiling the new PGi brand along with a focus on delivering a user experience in tune with people’s basic need to connect.... ]\" id=\"f_192323956\">Premiere Global Services Launches New PGi Brand (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

    Gargoyle

  • Meskel Square: A weblog about Ethiopia by Andrew Heavens, a journalist. Contact andrew dot heavens a (13.06 04:46) Meskel Square: A weblog about Ethiopia by Andrew Heavens, a journalist. Contact andrew dot heavens ... ... ]\" id=\"f_1914251\">Meskel Square: A weblog about Ethiopia by Andrew Heavens, a journalist. Contact andrew dot heavens a
  • Grandiose Parlor (26.05 05:19) ... he can link you at Global Voices (the event page ... he can link you at Global ... ... ]\" id=\"f_1599975\">Grandiose Parlor
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  • The Zimbabwean Pundit (19.04 01:58) ... April 16, 2007 Up on Global Voices Please check out the ... in its spiral. ( more... ) Zimbabwe, Global ... ... ]\" id=\"f_1065880\">The Zimbabwean Pundit
  • youngBLOOD · New Media and Life from the Trenches (19.04 01:57) ... 13, 2007 Taken from Global Voices Online: Global Voices is seeking a full ... The outreach director will coordinate Global ... ... ]\" id=\"f_1065879\">youngBLOOD · New Media and Life from the Trenches
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