Stories about Weblog from September, 2005
The State of Bolivian Blogs
Este artículo también está disponible en español Over the past year, the number of blogs about Bolivia, by Bolivians and by those living in Bolivia has multiplied. Projects like Blogs...
Chinese Bloggers on the New Internet Regulation
Ministry of Information Industry of China issued a new regulation called “Rules on the Administration of Internet News Information Services” (For Chinese Original and unofficial English Translation of the document),...
Indonesian Blogs: Oil, protests, and bird flu
Fuel hike, demonstrations and heavy traffic jams: The government is planning to raise fuel prices on this Saturday, 1st October to address the budget deficit, and already Indonesia has seen...
The Kurdish Blogosphere-Identities of Silence
Recently on the Iraqi Bloggers Central an epic seven part update on the Kurdish/Iraqi blogs was written. While the summary was excellent (and a highly recommended read!) it also begs...
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...
Images from Cuba: Enrique's '57 Pontiac
“Voices of Cuba #9″ by Sven Steven, who normally blogs in English, Spanish, and French at
Join Our Live Chat! Handbook for Bloggers & Cyber-Dissidents
Update: The IRC chat was a great success, with three dozen participants from around the world (China, Malaysia, Tunisia, Bahrain, Japan, Germany, France and Canada, just to name a few…)...
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)...
Iranian Journalists & Blogging in Iran: An Open Window to Communicate
Iranian journalists in their blogs,time to time, provide us first hand information. A couple of months ago Webnameh published Ganji's supporters’ photos in front of hospital before any other site...
Comments problems
Sincerest apologies to anybody who tried to post comments over the past two days. This was caused by an unfortunate technical mess-up on my part while attempting to block a...
Pakistan: Blogs react to Musharraf's comments
Pakistan: Blogs react to Musharraf's comments
Kuwait Blogosphere Roundup
Parenting in Kuwait is so mixed. Q discusses how parents can easily leave their children with maids when they are young, and is concerned on how this influences the young...
Echoes from the Tunisian blogosphere
Neila talks about the International Buttefly Rally (in French) that is taking place in Tunisia from the 23rd to 27th of September. This rally is exclusively for women. The women...
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...
Venezuela: The Censored Dossier
In Friday, Dossier was suspended. A full coverage can be found at El espacio de Lubrio. An ambiguous official statement from the Ministry of Communication and Information and VTV board of directors asks Martínez to appear before the National Attorney Office to present any charge against public administrators that he may have. The statement also warns about the obligation to obey dispositions on responsible journalism included in the Radio and Television Social Accountability Law.
Iranian Bloggers and Collective Blogging: From a Democratic Exercise to Defend Freedom of Speech
Iranian bloggers in last six months have started a new experience: Collective Blogging. Six months ago several bloggers from different places with diverse point of views came together and launched...
Spotlight Caribbean
Anguilla Eric Olsen has a post on Blogcritics.org about Anguilla's upcoming Tranquility Jazz Festival from November 9th to the 13th. Bob Green's Anguilla News covers American Eagles’ recent announcement of...
It's Out! Handbook for Bloggers & Cyber-Dissidents
Reporters Without Borders has given Global Voices a sneak peak at the Handbook For Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents before its official Thursday release. Click here to download the full booklet. Thanks...
Welcome to the Kurdish Blogosphere-Revisited
Welcome to our second installment of the introduction to the Kurdish Blogosphere; where we will discuss the various types of blogs. Cultural Kurdish culture isn't easy to define as it...
Best of Blogs: Nominate your favorites!
Grateful thanks to the esteemed Dr. David Weinberger for nominating Global Voices for the Best of Blogs Awards. The contest is sponsored jointly by Deutsche Welle and Reporters Without Borders....