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31 August 2006

Internet in Chile: Creating New Political Actors?

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

Co-authored by Mary Joyce and Rosario Lizana Why has Chile, a country of only 16 million people where only 10% have internet in their homes, become a hotbed of cyberactivism?...

India: Limca Book of Blog Records

Written by Neha Viswanathan · Quick Reads · South Asia

Bolivia: in the Tube and on the Tube

Written by David Sasaki · Quick Reads · Latin America

Happy Blog Day!!!

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Announcements

Happy Blog Day!!! Today we celebrate the wonders of the growing and very global online conversation. Blog Day founder Nir Ofir suggests we celebrate by recommending five new blogs. But...

India: Is The World Really Flat? It looks like.

Written by Kamla Bhatt · India

This round-up is a patchwork quilt of blog postings with a global flavor. And flavor is the key word since we end our journey with a culinary post that takes...

China: data searching

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

30 August 2006

Pakistan: Internet governance

Written by Neha Viswanathan · Quick Reads · South Asia

Chile: Campaign for Bandwidth

Written by David Sasaki · Quick Reads · Latin America

South Africa: Is the microwave mega dangerous?

Written by Musa Aliyu · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Singapore: Nation Wide Wi-Fi

Written by Preetam Rai · Quick Reads · East Asia

29 August 2006

Pakistan: Blog Block Back?

Written by Neha Viswanathan · Quick Reads · South Asia

South Africa: Computer gamers get to compete

Written by Andrew Heavens · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Cambodia: Web Portal and Destructive People

Written by Preetam Rai · Quick Reads · East Asia

28 August 2006

Mexico: Using Your Cell Phone as a Credit Card

Written by David Sasaki · Quick Reads · Latin America

Africa: Music goes online

Written by Andrew Heavens · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

26 August 2006

Tanzania, Mali: NYT on the African Wikipedia

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria: Solar-powered fish project

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

25 August 2006

Russian-Language Blogs: Miscellanea (2)

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Victoria Shcherbina (LJ user saint-autere) reacts to the news of the August 22 TU-154 crash in eastern Ukraine, which killed all 170 people on board, by writing (RUS) about the...

Google in Brazil: Who Guards Orkut's Playground?

Written by Jose Murilo · Latin America

The Brazilian blogosphere is talking about Google or more specifically about Orkut, its social network which has attracted a huge number of players. In order to understand Google's significance in...

Bolivia: Windows and Google in Quechua

Written by David Sasaki · Quick Reads · Latin America