Stories about Citizen Media from August, 2005
Inside The Japanese Blogosphere
Blogging in Iraq Japanese photojournalist Hiroshi Okamoto, who travelled to Iraq on assignment in 2004 and spent one month in Samawa, has produced a food blog of his experiences. Although...
Blogs of the World, Aggregate!
Boris Anthony, our good friend and Global Voices’ beloved graphic designer/toolsmith, recently offered this observation: “….In the last 6 months, I have not worked on a single ‘weblog': it's all...
Book Review Podcast: The World is Flat
Book Review of Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat."
English, Bilingual, and Political Bloggers in Tanzanian Blogosphere
For reasons that are mainly attributed to Tanzania‘s post independence political ideology of Ujamaa, which emphasized strong national identity through the extensive use of Kiswahili, the dominant language in the...
Arab Blogging Revolution?
Occasionally, I like to take a break from my blog, and sometimes from the internet as a whole. During my latest break from my blog, I found this website. It...
Maghreb Blog
A group of enthusiastic bloggers from the Maghreb world; that consists of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Mauritania; have launched a new project under the name of Maghreb Blog. This...
Iranian bloggers worried about New President's Cabinet
Iranian bloggers worried about New President's Cabinet
Bangladesh: Blogspeak on the Blasts
Bangladesh: Blogspeak on the Blasts
Lesotho: Musings on sexuality
Rethabile Masilo at Sotho searches for an alternative to nurture vs. nature explanations for homosexuality in humans.
Khmer Dance
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Video of a Cambodian dance troupe performing a blessing dance at the opening of the Lowell Water Festival, one of the largest Southeast Asian festivals in the US, organized jointly by the local Cambodian, Lao, Vietnamese and Thai communities. |
Search Blogger Directory
Wondering how to search blogger.com directory for blogs by country? Here is a tip from Sabbah's Blog.
Video Blogs & Cambodia
Eath Chhnon (otherwise known as “Village Girl“) is a Cambodian “video blogger” or vlogger. She grew up in a small village in Cambodia near Angkor Wat, one of country’s cultural...
Sharm Relief
Following the devastating terrorist attacks in the Egyptian tourist hub of Sharm Elshiekh, Pray4Peace.org set up a fundraiser called Sharm Relief at SharmReleif.com.
Iraq: The New Constitution
New Deadline for the Iraqi Constitution, Raed Jarrar says that the Iraqi constitution shouldn’t be rushed through. Iraqis have the right to take as much time as they need to...
Israel: more disengagement reactions
More Israeli voies on the disengagement.
Blog Maps
eGrupos, an online social networking site based in Sunnyvale, California has developed El BlogoMapa Hispano, an online directory of weblogs in Spanish, which shows the bloggers’ locations using the Google...
Gaza disengagement first reaction
A day since the disengagement from Gaza started, this is some of what is going on the Israeli/Palestinian Blogsphere: On the Israeli side: Smooth Stone writes a A message to...
Bringing out the dead in Harare
Flame Lily writes on the Sokwanele Civic Action Support Group blog how she saw Zimbabwean police drag a body out of a ditch where those made homeless by the government's...
Grassroots movement seeks to change the politics of Poland
Pol-Blog gets behind a grass-roots, citizen-based political initiative aimed at communicating directly with EU institutions, and being run by the European Citizen Action Service.
African Bullets and Honey on the trials of Kenyan athletes
MMK, over at African Bullets and Honey, decries the attitude of the Kenyan government to its athletes in the wake of the World Championships in Helsinki.
Sri Lanka: Blogs react to the assasination
Sri Lanka: Blogs react to the assasination
