14 July 2005

Stories from 14 July 2005

teleSUR

El Machete, written by a Mexican studying in Australia, weighs the pros and cons of the future continent-wide television network, teleSUR, in Latin America.

14 July 2005

My son the fanatic

Group blog Sepia Munity points out that all the suspects in the London bombings were second-generation: they were born and raised in the country they attacked. In addition Rezwan of...

14 July 2005

Black Looks: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Black Looks, in the first of a series spotlighting important African women, profiles Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali woman who is also a Dutch MP and the writer of the...

14 July 2005

Blogging in a time of crisis

Metacoverage of the President Gloria Arroyo scandal: Inside PCIJ does a roundup of many of the Filipino/a blogs that have been closely tracking the Arroyo scandal, as well as several...

14 July 2005

Dina

Indian blogger Dina Mehta will be on a panel about globalization, blogging, and women at the Blogher conference at the end of the month.

14 July 2005

North Korean Internet Cafe!

From The Marmot's Hole comes this Daily NK story–with pictures!–about a North Korean internet cafe. The pictures–judging from the quality, or lack thereof–appear to have been taken by a hidden...

14 July 2005

The Big Pharaoh

The Big Pharaoh says that “it seems that our ‘intellectuals’ and ‘religious’ leaders are so busy laughing their heads off at America's PR while they're doing nothing to proclaim their...

14 July 2005

China Herald

Fons Tuinstra points out that the South China Morning Post seems to be vastly overestimating the number of bloggers in China.

14 July 2005