Stories about Weblog from December, 2005
South Asia: From the Blogosphere
South Asia: From the Blogosphere
Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere
Welcome back to the Kurdish Blogosphere! Originally announced on the Kurdistan Bloggers Union was the creation of the Kurdistan Blog Count this week. Modeled loosely after the Iraq Blog Count, it intends to monitor and catalog the Kurdistan blogs out there in the world wide web. Other items announced on...
Voices from the Horn of Africa and Sudan
Our look at what bloggers in the Horn of the African continent and Sudan are saying begins in Darfur and with some good news. Sleepless in Sudan is reporting that the ban on commercial traffic in one of the refugee camps called Kalma has been lifted. In its own words:...
Voices From Zimbabwe Plus
Zimbabwe: With the elections gone and the country firmly in their grip, the ruling ZANU-PF unravelled their newest ploy to silence hostilities from their own citizens. Trevor Ncube, the publisher of two of Zimbabwe's independent newspapers The Independent and The Standard, and leading South African titles the Mail and Guardian,...
Air Plane Crash: Anger & Sorrow
A military transport plane crashed in a residential district in Tehran, at 6th of December, killing more than 100 people including many journalists and reporters who were air plane passengers. Iranian government tried to blame pilot and American embargo as reasons for this tragedy but voices raised among bloggers, journalists...
Global Voices Summit: Emergence of a Conversation Community
(photo by Beth Kanter) Thanks to everybody who participated – both in person and online to make our Global Voices London Summit such a stunning success! The conversation was so intense that few people noticed a movie star sitting quietly in the back of the room, listening intently to what...
Lebanese Bloggers Outraged at Journalist Slaying
(Artwork, Beirut Spring) Today, a prominent anti-Syrian politician and Journalist was killed in a car-bomb explosion in Beirut. The Lebanese bloggers were quick to show their disgust, shock and fury. Rampurple explains what Gebran Tueni meant to her: Gebran Tueni was the person who gave me hope through his editorials,...
African women's blogsphere this week
Black Looks writes about an interesting development in the Central African Republic which has banned the media from broadcasting or writing misogynistic music and articles following the Communication Minister’s directive and hopes ‘other countries will follow his lead’. Nyakehu writes about a question she was asked at a job interview...
This Week in Palestinian Blogs: Remembering The Forgotten Faithful
The past week witnessed Palestinian calls for the release of the four CPT and ISM hostages who were abducted on the 29th of Novemeber in Iraq. Demonstrations were held in Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah. Press conferences were held and statements were made by the different Palestinian political parties demanding the...
Iranian Hezbollah Goes Blogging
Iranian blogosphere is very diverse with thousands active blogs. Among these blogs, we can find both many pro democratic, liberal blogs and pro Islamic Republic ones. Most of these Pro Islamic Republic blogs call theselves Hezbollah blogs. If we like them or not, they are a part of blogosphere and...
Presidential election in Chile; second round to take place on January 15
Today was a very exiting day for Chile, in which more than 6 million Chileans voted for president, senators and representatives. At the end of 6 years of Ricardo Lago´s government, Michelle Bachelet (both of the “La Concertación” coalition) won the first round for presidency with 45.87% with a lead...
Kenyan Sphere Blog hopping
The Kenyan Open blog launched recently, the idea behind it is to “be able to track and trace issues that are of relevance to the Kenyan blogosphere or being debated in the wider Kenyan blogosphere.” Could this open blog, along with inititiaves like Nchi Yetu Daily be moving the kenyan...
The week that was in the South African blogosphere
Jonty at The Fishbowl comments on the findings of a new survey showing that Afrikaners have experienced the “most radical change in political outlook” of all groups since the 1994 elections. “This is probably understandable, given that by fair assumption that Afrikaners had the furthest to move politically after the...
Turkey is Typing…
…not very much this week…which is rather surprising, but one thing about the Blogosphere is that the conversation ebbs and flows… Maybe everyone is like me, madly working on exams and projects….or maybe everyone is listening/reading about the London 2005 Global Voices Summitt… Here is what I found in the...
The week in the Caribbean blogosphere
I'm starting to write this on Wednesday 7 December, as tomorrow I leave for London to attend the Global Voices '05 Summit, so apologies in advance for not including anything posted in the latter part of this week. A couple of days ago I posted the meeting agenda at Caribbean...
Global Voices Summit: Join us Saturday online!
(Cartoon by Hugh Mcleod) In just a few hours, bloggers from the Global Voices community plus a number of groupies, fans, and supporters will be gathering for the Global Voices London Summit This site has gone a long way since a smaller group of us got together a year ago…...
Pakistan: Blog-o-coma
Well, it happened. I got side-swiped by a colossal Boredom Truck while riding my trusted Vespa Scooter on the internet highway, surveying for relevant blogs to highlight for this post. I hate to admit it but the accident was my fault. Driving through the drivel of insufferable sites that litter...
Southeast Asian Games!
Southeast Asian Games closing ceremonies’ photo by Jove Francisco. The 23rd South East Asian Games, which recently concluded in Manila this week, were known as the South East Asian Peninsular Games until 1975 when the SEAP Games Federation accepted Indonesia and the Philippines as members. The name was then changed...
Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere
Roj Bash! As finals are fast approaching, today's post is going to be a little shorter than normal, here's the weekly run-down: Kurdo from Kurdo's World addresses the credibility of some Kurdish news websites. Kardox reports that former Israeli special forces are training Kurds in Iraq. Reports about unrest in...
The Week That Was – Bolivian Blogs
Does the term “retroactive blogging” actually exist? Upon closer inspection and a little help from Google, the concept of retroactive blogging has been around awhile. One of the more interesting blogs about Bolivia retells events that took place then years ago. Mary’s Bolivia takes place in the heart of the...
Nigeria Blogosphere this week
Jeremy of Naijablog has two posts on Gay and Lesbians in Nigeria, a subject guaranteed to send huge numbers of people into a rage with bible quotes being hurled left right and center….In “More on Gay Life in Nigeria” he writes The Victorian hypocrisy of attitudes towards homosexuality in Nigeria...
