Stories about Technology from November, 2007
Peru: Blogs from El Comercio
Blogs from the Lima newspaper El Comercio have been looked at differently by bloggers in Peru. Perhaps it is due to the fact that these bloggers are given more attention because of their link with the large newspaper or because they are paid to blog. Nevertheless, these bloggers from El Comercio write about diverse topics such as Peruvian rock music, gastronomy, and looking for a boyfriend or girlfriend.
China: Bloggers bust another really big lie
One of the less glamorous side-effects of censorship, the impact the 17th Communist Party National Congress had on Chinese media made a faked photograph of a rare tiger the top story throughout the Chinese blogsphere for the entire past month. The whole affair ended this weekend when an obscure blogger...
China: Writing Together
Kuanfeng introduces (zh) a website 17xie.com that encourage users to write together. The website provides help to publication with real papers.
Russia: “From Russia With Hate”
Via Moscow Through Brown Eyes, a rather shocking video story about the Russian neo-Nazi, posted on Current.com.
Egypt: Yamli Search
Yamli Search is very intriguing new search engine that transliterates Arabic written in the Latin alphabet into Arabic proper, and then runs that query through Google, says The Arabist.
Brazil: Meeting Vint Cerf
Guilherme Felitti [pt] reports on the interview he has done with Vint Cerf, “the man who is responsible for you reading this text now. Cerf, together with Bob Kahn, came up with TCP/IP, which allows each PC to have an IP and get authenticated on the web”. Read his impressions...
Syria: Facebook Banned
Syria's netizens have been given another slap on the face with the banning of social networking site Facebook. With Blogger already blocked, the country's bloggers are fuming and have a lot to say about the latest development.
Kenya: Partnership between Google Kenya and Safaricom
Africaincorp writes about the partnership between Google Kenya and Safaricom: “Safaricom subscribers will now enjoy email services launched by the company in partnership with Google Kenya.”
Honduras: Featured in the Washington Post
Aaron Ortiz of Pensieve was recently featured in the Washington Post, where he wrote a short piece about the latest Honduras telephone company wiretapping scandal.
Brazil: Updates from the BlogCamp BH
Superfície Reflexiva has live updates [pt] from BlogCamp BH, a bloggers meeting in Minas Gerais taking place this weekend. Ronaldo Ferraz is experimenting reporting also through a new tool, Twitter. The first day left him disappointed: “The subject that I feared most, blog monetization, was the dominating topic in the...
Brazil: Without internet for 95 hours, 43 min, 17 sec, and couting…
Surviving since Tuesday night with no internet connection and blogging from an Internet cafe, Gabriela Zago [pt] describes the Brasil Telecom service as the worst ever: “They informed us by phone that the connexion cables had been stolen, but that the problem was to be sorted out the following day...
Nicaragua: Software Freedom Day Group Wins Award
Organizers of the Software Freedom Day in Managua, Nicaragua received some good news. Their event is similar to other events held around the world designed to introduce and discuss the use of Free and Open Source software. They were one of the top three places worldwide to receive a recognition for their collaborative work from the Software Freedom Day organization and the activists hope to continue the activities in Nicaragua.
Bahrain: Kitting Out An Islamic Car
This week in Bahrain we have a thoughtful post about the nature of God, a story of a sex education class, visitors’ varying experiences of both Bahrain and Spain, and a complaint about public toilets. There is also an intriguing examination of the specifications an Islamic car should have…
The BOBs: And the winners are…
You've waited with bated breath. You've sat by your computer. Perhaps you've even flown to Berlin…that's right, Berlin, where the awards ceremony for The BOBs (Best of Blogs), a competition hosted by Deutsche Welle and co-sponsored by Global Voices, was held November 15. At the ceremony, the results were announced...
Russia, Ukraine: Kerch Strait Disaster Podcasts
Yegor Timofeyev of Greenpeace Russia is podcasting (RUS) from the scene of the ecological catastrophe in the Kerch Strait over at PODstantsiya, a podcasting project of the Moscow-based Foundation for Independent Radio Broadcasting.
Brazil: Internet Governance Forum, the final balance
“The most significant development of the Rio IGF meeting was the dawning acknowledgement, particularly evident during the session on Taking Stock and the Way Foward, that the conference format of the annual plenary meetings is increasingly irrelevant to the work of the IGF”. Read a balance of the Internet Governance...
Thailand: Jotman Wins
Thailand based blogger Jotman has won the “Reporters Without Borders Award” in Deutsche Welle's Best of the Blogs (BOBs) competition.
Mozambique: Congratulations to Tas – BOBs2007
A runner up for the the same category, Diário de um Sociólogo congratulates [pt] Marcelo Tas for winning the Best Weblog Portuguese prize and invites other blogs from Mozambique to make themselves known: “Finally, I would like to make again this invitation: sign up for BOBs2008, I make an special...
Brazil: Festival Arte.Mov and the mobility era
Andre Lemos invites [pt] whoever happens to be in Belo Horizonte to take part in the Arte.Mov Festival, starting today. It brings together artists that perform new technologies such as RFID, mobile phones, GPS videos. “The event has the tradition of bringing to Brazil the most interesting debates available about...
Trinidad & Tobago: WordPress Woes
Lifespan of a Chennette is in Turkey without WordPress and compares herself to “that cat on the wall, in Antalya, sulking a bit…I had no intention of making any kind of political comment on Turkey, but this is frustrating.”
Hong Kong: Uwants
Poon Wai Hang blogs about the most popular internet forum in Hong Kong, Uwants (zh). It ranks second among traditional Chinese language webistes, however, the sources of income are very limited.
