November, 2004

Stories from November, 2004

Operation “Viral Freedom”

  18 November 2004

Spirit of America is funding the development of an Arabic blogging tool. The vendor is iUpload. Beta testing starts in December.  Here is how they describe the project: We are funding the development of an Arabic blogging (Web logging) tool and, with donor support, we will host the blogs at...

Global Voices and Del.icio.us

  16 November 2004

Complementing Rebecca's Global Voices aggregator, I'd like to invite you to share links on sites you think might be useful to our conversation using del.icio.us. I'm starting a set of bookmarks and invite you do to the same, using del.icio.us, and tagging the appropriate bookmarks as “globalvoices”. For those who...

Updated session plan

  15 November 2004

Due to changes and additions in the participant list, here is our updated session plan for Saturday Dec. 11th: 9-10:30: Intro: Rebecca and Ethan. Why we're doing this. How we'd like to use blogging and blog tools to help people in different countries hold more meaningful and direct conversations with...

Global Voices Aggregator

  15 November 2004

I have created a special aggregator for GVO. All confirmed participants with blogs or a site with an RSS feed have been plugged into it. All confirmed participants are also being given author access to the Bloglines aggregator (you should all receive an email about this). I've set up different...

Death threats against Hoder

  6 November 2004

Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan, aka Hoder, is concerned about death threats against him and other Iranian bloggers emanating from a blog called Islamic Army.