Stories about Citizen Media from September, 2005
Blogging in the Cambodian Language
NIDA, National Information Communications Technology Development Authority, is the government agency that oversees the country's telecommunication policy. The Cambodian Government's ICT Policy encourages the development and deployment of Open Source...
Pakistan: Blog-o-rama
Without a helmet, riding a Vespa scooter at 45km an hour, I headed out on the internet highway last night, swerving my way through heavy traffic (risking life and limb)...
Pakistan: Blogs react to Musharraf's comments
Pakistan: Blogs react to Musharraf's comments
Kenyan Blogosphere Roundup
- First things first. The Kenyan Blogs WebRing recently celebrated it's first birthday and crossed the 100 member threshold. Congratulations are in order. Here are some snippets of the amazing...
Globalization & Democracy: The Helsinki Conference 2005
The Helsinki Conference 2005: From Words to Action I recently attended the Helsinki Conference 2005 in Helsinki, Finland (Sept. 7-9). The conference was a follow-up to the Helsinki Process on...
Nigerian Suya!
A mala is seen here seated in front of his Suya Stand Suya (pronounced Su-hu-ya) That's the name of a piece of meat roasted on an open heat basin, with...
Indian bloggers on film, books, blogging, and real life.
Apu of A Wind-up Bird Chronicle reflects on early feminist writing from the subcontinent. In the fiftieth year of Nabokov's Lolita, here's Hurree Babu of Kitabkhana imagining an aging Humbert...
Guide for bloggers and cyberdissidents
Reporters Without Borders will release a “Guide for bloggers and cyberdissidents” on the 22nd of September. It will be available on the RWB's website in five languages (English, French, Persian,...
Images from India: A no-show rock show
Images from India: A no-show rock show
Book Review: Interview with Roy Moxham
Book Review: Interview with Roy Moxham
Indonesia: Tsunami slideshow
Tony Demark has built a del.icio.us-tagged slideshow which allows you to toggle between Before and After shots of the tsunami as it hit Banda Aceh and Sri Lanka's Kalutara Beach....
Pakistan: Blogspeak
Pakistan: Blogspeak
Inside The Japanese Blogosphere
David Jacobson at Japan Media Review has prepared an excellent summary about how Japanese bloggers covered the country's recent parliamentary elections on September 11. As part of the post, Jacobson...
Ghana Anti-Poverty Event: “Africa Stands Tall”
Over 300,000 people packed into Ghana’s Independence Square in Accra on Saturday 3 September 2005 for the marathon 15 hour Africa Standing Tall Against Poverty Concert featuring Africa’s leading musicians,...
South Asia: Responding to Hurricane Katrina
South Asia: Responding to Hurricane Katrina
Southeast Asia: Conversion to Islam
Professional Australian model Michelle Leslie embraces Islam but continues to model swimwear or underwear. “When should a person be considered to be part of a religion?” Brunei-born, Australia-based blogger raised...
Malaysia: Katrina Help
Wither universalism? An AFP story recounts pledges of aid and help to Katrina Hurricane victims coming from the rich and poor of Asian countries except Malaysia. Tech blogger LiewCF is...
Katrina Help Lines from the KatrinaHelp.info team
Katrina Help Lines from the KatrinaHelp.info team
From the South Asian Blogworld
From the South Asian Blogworld
South Asian blog roundup
The main buzz of many South Asian blogs were about the Hurricane Katrina that caused extensive and severe damage in much of the southeastern United States. Bangladesh: - British journalist...
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