Stories about Portuguese from April, 2008
Brazil: Lending a hand to police bloggers
Alexandre de Sousa [pt] is lending a helping hand to other Brazilian police officers who have or wish to have blogs. In the last post of his series of tutorials,...
Macau: Social issues behind death penalty in China
Leocardo [pt] comments on this week's Amnesty International's report that ranked China the first in the world in the number of executions in 2007 (470), followed by Iran (317), Saudi...
Mozambique: On the new statutory minimum wage
Basilio Muhate [pt] talks briefly about the consensus reached by Mozambique's trade unions and the employers’ associations in the negotiations for a new statutory minimum wage in eight of the...
Brazilian political journalism
Helio Paz, from Palanque do Blackão[Pt], writes a big post about the Brazilian political media, mainstream and alternative alike, and tells us what he does read, and what he doesn't,...
Zimbabwe: A safe waypoint for the chinese Olympic Torch
Tomas Muarramuassa comments on his blog, Muarramuassando[Pt], about the passage of the Olympic Torch by Africa. He says it should come to Zimbabwe because “the only place in the world...
Mozambique: The first established blogger in Tete
Carlos Serra, from Diários de um Sociólogo [Sociologists Diary, in Portuguese], introduces us to Muarramuasando[pt], written by Tomás Muarramuassa, who seems to be the first established blogger in the Mozambican...
Brazil: Bloggers united against WordPress ban
The Brazilian blogosphere has not quite yet recovered from its last fright and there is already another threat on the way: a blanket ban on blogs hosted on Wordpress.com after a judicial court passed an order to close down a specific blog. Some bloggers are already campaigning just in case this comes true, while others stress that above all Brazil needs proper legislation (and knowledgeable legislators) to deal with the Internet and the new technologies issues.
Angola: No to Guillermo Habacuc and the starving dog.
Admario Lindo, who writes Angola Haria (and many other blogs in Portuguese), shares his shock[pt] about a Guillermo Habacuc Vargas‘[en] art instalation staged last year, in which a dog was...
Cape Verde: Ave Mayra
Virgílio Brandão [pt] is one of the many bloggers celebrating today: Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade, at just 23, won the best newcomer in the BBC Radio 3 World Music...
Mozambique: Cell phone and society
Sociologist Elísio Macamo [pt] is working on an interesting series of posts about cell phone use in Mozambique. There have been five articles so far, starting with this introduction to...
Brazil: WordPress might be blocked
Leonardo Fontes [pt] on the piece of news that WordPress may be blocked in Brazil after a court decision ruled that one specific blog was to be closed down. “Brazil...
Angola: News from Angola in a discover and share website
Francis Pac [pt] announces a web 2.0 website similar to Digg to make possible for poeple to discover and share news from Angola. “The option to use this tool only...
East Timor: What commentators don't say about Tibet
On publishing a Guardian video about the situation in Tibet, Daniel Arruda [pt] comments: “The sentences are clear: “China does not want the reality of Tibet to be known” or...
Brazil: Blogosphere debates infanticide
“We are discussing the superiority of Western Christian civilization over the indigenous peoples because of infanticide. Well, we may disagree, and want to do something about it, but the indigenous...
Angola: Thinking Angola 2022
Peixoto Alves [pt] has an extensive post about the future of Angola. “The challenge is thinking with an innovation-intelligent approach as a tool for the country in a long term...
Cape Verde: History of amateur radio service
Jorge Sousa Brito [pt] remembers the infancy of the amateur radio service in Cape Verde, an activity which he grew up with as his father was the first person to...
Cape Verde: Gilberto Freyre at my greatgranny's
Jorge Sousa Brito [pt] posts photos and writes about an incredible and wonderful story: the day that the Brazilian sociologist, cultural anthropologist Gilberto Freyre dropped at this great grandmother's house...
Mozambique: Reflecting on the news
“In my humble opinion it is necessary that news reporters reflect seriously on the kind of news they offer to society. When absence of facts starts to become rule rather...
Angola: 2008 elections
“The Angolan people are called to go to the polls, this year in September 2008, to elect their representatives to the National Assembly. There have been 17 years since the...
Angola: Celebrating the peace anniversary
In a post called ‘Peace’, PValente [pt] celebrates peace in Angola after the end of the civil war, in 04/04/2002, and publishes his pictures of the commemorative T-shirt to “mark...
B-razi-loggers Rage and Roll Against ISO Approval of Microsoft Standard
April fool's day this year has brought a bitter taste to the Brazilian open source community. The announcement of the approval of Microsoft's Open XML Format (OOXML) as an ISO/IEC...
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