Stories from 15 July 2005
Commentary
Laurence Caromba, writing in the South African group blog Commentary, points out the difficulties that the home-grown London bombers pose for political theory: “it robs the neoconservative explanation of terrorism (in a nutshell: illiberalism) of some of its power… it also destroys the arguments of … the anti-war left and...
Mexico City Weblogs.Communication Conference
Today beginning at 4 p.m. is the first ever Weblogs.Communication conference, which will take place at the Foro Cultural Coyoacanense (Allende 36, Centro de Coyoacán) in Mexico City. A list of speakers can be found here and immediately following the conference is a “cervezas, sushi, and blogs get-together” at Kuru...
Leo Prieto is News: Hoy en Radio Concierto!
Leo Prieto gets a lot of love from the Chilean blogging community for his appearance on a Radio Concierto program which focused on blogging.
thunder – ¡Firefox en el Zoológico de Buenos Aires!
Thunder finds Firefox in the Buenos Aires Zoo.
The Evo Morales Debate
Blog From Bolivia slices and dices the charismatic and ever-controversial Evo Morales, who this post claims “has about as much chance of becoming President of Bolivia after next December’s elections as I have of being Bush’s pick for the US Supreme Court.” Barrio Flores notes that Evo Morales places second...
Lynchings in Bolivia
Both Barrio Flores and MABB comment on the recent flourish of lynchings, or “communal justice” in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Flickr Pick From Argentina
“Madre of Cromagnon Victim” by Jeff Barry