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· May, 2005

Stories about Weblog from May, 2005

Kenyan Blogs Roundup

This is long overdue. - Scentiments on something that many Kenyan bloggers based in the diaspora can relate to – missing Kenya. - Kenyan politicians inspire a WTF moment. -...

Written by Ory Okolloh
30 May 2005

The World Reacts to Star Wars

I'm tracking posts about Star Wars written by bloggers around the world at the starwars+globalvoices del.icio.us tag.  If you find more Star Wars related posts from international blogs, please contribute...

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon
23 May 2005

Blogger Profile – Jeff Ooi

Thinking Allowed, Thinking Aloud. Meeting Jeff Ooi is very much different than reading his blog. You would not expect this quiet, dimunitive person to blog with such ferocity, that he...

Written by Mack Zulkifli
20 May 2005

Help us decide who to interview!

We've recently solved a couple of long-standing technical problems and we should be able to start doing “Skypecasts” – podcasts of interviews conducted over Skype – in the next couple...

Written by Ethan Zuckerman
19 May 2005

OJR article about Bahraini Blogs

Bahrain's bloggers are helping to bring international media attention to their country. Last week there was a long Wall Street Journal article. Now Mark Glaser of the Online Journalism Review...

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon
19 May 2005

Global Voices on Radio Open Source

Radio Open Source, a new public radio show hosted from Cambridge, Massachusetts by Chris Lydon, devoted its second pilot show on Friday entirely to Global Voices. The show featured conversations...

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon
15 May 2005

Uzbekistan breaking news

Thanks to Registan.net for pointing out that the “Scraps of Moscow” blog is translating news and analysis from the Russian press on the Uzbekistan protest and crackdown story… in which...

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon
13 May 2005

Flags as graphs of social issues

Icaro Doria, a 25-year old Brazilian reporter for Lisbon-based Grande Reportagem magazine, has produced a beautiful set of eight images, part of a series called “Meet the World”. The images...

Written by Ethan Zuckerman
10 May 2005

Voices From Kiswahili Blogosphere

There are fifteen active and two inactive Kiswahili bloggers. Sixteen bloggers are Tanzanians and one is Kenyan. Several new Kiswahili bloggers are currently working on their blogs but not yet...

Written by Ndesanjo Macha
9 May 2005

Blog for Human Rights!

Human Rights Watch is encouraging bloggers to use their RSS feeds and blog for human rights. HRW would like to help bloggers get the information they need to blog more...

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon
7 May 2005

South East Asian Blog Roundup

Singapore Steven McDermott of Singabloodypore highlights a gathering for Shanmugam Murugesu, a Singaporean whose appeal for clemency from capital punishment has been rejected by Singaporean President. The blog entry has...

Written by Mack Zulkifli
5 May 2005

Kenyan blogs roundup

Lucy Kibaki, Kenya's First Lady, has been dominating the Kenyan blogosphere and Kenyan online community over the last few days, particularly after the slap that was heard around the world....

Written by Ory Okolloh
5 May 2005

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