· January, 2009

Stories about Technology from January, 2009

Nicaragua: Linux Tour to Honduras

  22 January 2009

Normal Garcia writes about the LinuxTour Nicaragua, where members of the open software community in Nicaragua will travel to neighboring Honduras [es] to exchange information and build relationships with other open software enthusiasts in that country.

Ecuador: The Growth of the Blogosphere

  19 January 2009

Mi Diario Relativo [es] reflects on the growth of the Ecuadorian blogosphere over the past two years and sees that the number of blogs registered on Blogalaxia has grown by 400% during that time.

Russia, Israel: Gaza War Online

  18 January 2009

IZO reports that “a blog in support of the current Israeli military action in Gaza on the super-popular social site odnoklassniki.ru (27 million members) was hacked and destroyed after it entered into polemics with an anti-Israel site on Facebook”; and comments on the controversial post by Anton Nossik/LJ user dolboeb,...

Kazakhstan: Prime-Minister Launched Blog

  16 January 2009

On January 9 the Press Office of the Government informed that Karim Massimov, the Prime-Minister of Kazakhstan, started his private, yet official blog. Last December the Prime –Minister visited Russian capital, where he gave the interview to Echo of Moscow radio station. There he was asked a series of uneasy...