Stories about Weblog from December, 2005
Venezuela: Election Responses
Punditry everywhere following Sunday's parliamentary elections in Venezuela. A.M. Mora y Leon offers some brief excerpts of conversations had around the streets of upper-middle class Caracas. Boz looks at the U.S. reaction. Leftside is skeptical of the opposition parties’ spin on voter abstention. Miguel of The Devil's Excrement says that...
Bloggers Joined the Big March in Hong Kong
A total of over 200,000 people supposedly joined the Dec. 4, 2005 march in Hong Kong urging the government to create a clearer roadmap for granting universal suffrage to Hong Kong citizens to elect the special administrative region's Chief Executive and legislators. The march started in the Victoria Park ,...
Chilean Elections: Bloggers’ View
Less than one week from the presidential election which will take place on December 11, some political blogs have been posting on the candidates’ possibilities at present. “Elections 2005”, a blog which covers the press, analyzes the latest polls which give Michelle Bachelet, the only woman candidate (the favourite) a...
Afghanistan Blogs: Journals, Zaher Shah & Taliban
Garderah (Link in Persian), an Afghan blogger who recently visited Afghanistan, writes that many Afghans are surprised at the high number of private journals, radio stations, and television channels that operate alongside government ones. Garderah says he is disappointed to see that govermental journals talk more about Zaher Shah, former...
This Week in Palestinian Blogs: Freedom Made In West Bank and Gaza
The 29th of November was the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. A candle vigil was held in East Jerusalem. Wish that by next year occupation will be history, that we celebrate the 29th as the day that brought us all together to protest the partition of the...
This week in the Ethiopian Blogosphere
The Ethiopian blogosphere continues to hit hard at the repressive dictatorial government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Meskel Square and Nazret.com both point to a Channel 4 special report entitled “Ethiopia's Agony” which can now be viewed online. Meskel Square writes EPRDF supporters will not like its angle, summed up...
High Abstention and Information Black-out in Venezuela Elections
Venezuelan bloggers report empty voting sites in today's elections for National Assembly Deputies. After touring Caracas, The Devil’s Excrement estimates that abstention rates would be higher in this election than it was for the City Council elections last August in which abstention rates reached 68%, a very high percentage compared...
The Lebanese Bloggers on Husam and Hezbollah + Miscellaneous
Last week started with a press conference by a Syrian witness who withdrew his testimony from the Mehlis investigation. The witness, Husam Husam, announced that he was forced, coaxed and cajoled by Mehlis, The Hariri Family and others into saying what he had said, but he changed his mind because...
Images from Venezuela: “The Voice of the Experience”
“La Voz de la Experiencia” by Rufino As Venezuela heads to the polls tomorrow in conflict and electoral crisis, at least a few citizens of Caracas were able to able to take some time yesterday for amiable conversation.
Israel: the political drama continues
For the third week in a row, domestic politics is the biggest story in Israel. The political landscape continues to change rapidly, with each day bringing a new and surprising development. However they feel about the politicians, the consensus seems to be that one thing is certain: these are interesting...
From the Jordanian Blogosphere
“Jordan Planet's first North American Meet-up” by Jameed “November Jordanian Blogger Meet-up” by Roba Al-Assi As an interesting forty percent of Jordanian bloggers don't reside in Jordan, meet-ups are occurring often all around the world. Jameed reports from the first North American Jordan Planet Conference, “held in Las Vegas, Nevada...
Turkey is Typing….
Welcome back to the Turkish Blogosphere! (or a small section of it anyway…) Phanja from The Need to Know posts this week about the radical shift of party viewpoints on the Turkish nationality issue. Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently announced that “We are all citizens of the republic of Turkey under...
Global Voices Seeks Managing Editor
Global Voices is growing fast! We are now looking to hire a full-time Managing Editor. THE JOB: This person will be responsible for coordinating day-to-day content flow on the Global Voices blog, run regular online editorial meetings, manage the work of our rapidly expanding international team of Regional Editors and...
The talk in the Caribbean blogosphere
I'm writing this post on December 1st, which is also World AIDS Day. There were 24,000 AIDS-related deaths in the Caribbean this year, and as Abeni of St. Vincent & the Grenadines pointed out, “in the Caribbean the infection rates are second only to Sub Saharan Africa.” Here are a...
Egyptian bloggers and parliamentary elections
Elections This week we had the re-run of the second stage and the first run of the third stage of parliamentary elections. The second stage was the most violent. Although one person died in the first run of the third stage there was less violence but the police and security...
Chilean Bloggers: What happened with our Politics Blogging?
Roberto Arancibia, a well known blogger in Chile, posts that we are only ten days away from the presidential and parliamentary elections and that political Blogs should be burning hot, but….why aren't they? Most of the comments agree that blogs are not mainstream or still too “elite”. Maria Elena said...
Writings from the Kenyan Blogosphere
Bankelele writes about the sort-of-return of East African Classic safari rally, which is no longer part of the international WRC rally, but offers ‘a nostalgic and and unique tourist attraction’. Bullets and Honey writes of the ‘courtiers who use isms like machetes’. In the piece, he explores the nature of...
News From Chinese Blogosphere
Bush Visit: Geogrge W. Bush, president of United States, visited China from Dec. 20th and met with Chinese leaders, talking about issues like trade and religious freedom. A Chinese journalist who participated in the welcome ceremony in a church posted on his blog about Bush titled “Bush's Hairy Hands” (in...
Kiswahili blogoshere this week
Mawazo na Mawaidha writes about the new Bob Marley CD. He specifically likes the song, Slogan, one of seven songs found in Marley’s working room. The song, which features Eric Clapton on guitar, was produced by Bob Marley’s children, Stephen and Ziggy. Dira Yangu, writing from Uganda, asks his readers...
Pakistan: Blog-O-Manic
Pakistan: Blog-O-Manic
