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27 January 2006

Stories from 27 January 2006

Armenia: Freenet.am

Christian Garbis reports that Armenia's free internet (limited to Armenian sites only) and email service, Freenet.am, is in danger of shutting down unless it finds new funding.

Written by Nathan Hamm
28 January 2006

There is No Festival in Cartagena

The following is an abbreviated translation of a post originally written in Spanish by Colombian journalist, Efraim Medina Reyes at Blogscolombia.com. In the most recent issue of the magazine, Arcadia,...

Written by David Sasaki
27 January 2006

Iran: Enemy is China!

Sadetar az Ab (means more simple than water), an Iran based blogger, says neither US nor Israel is Iran's enemy but China. Bloggersays more and more Iranian national companies bankrupted...

Written by Fred Petrossian
27 January 2006

Palestine: Hamas Won!

A lot of reactions to Hamas winning elections in Palestine. Nas summaries some of these, then talks about after-shock. Shaden says, “that’s what Palestinians inside want, you either support them...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
27 January 2006

Youth WSF collective blog

Attention-grabbing first person testimonials on what is going at the World Social Forum in this collective blog. Posts about life in the youth camp, the Forum’s (dis)organization, the Bolivarian proceso,...

Written by Iria Puyosa
27 January 2006

South Africa

South Africa comments on an interview with PW Botha and writes “please make these stupid people shut up“.

Written by Sokari Ekine
27 January 2006

South Africa: Arts blog

African Voices and Visons is another new African blog, this time from South Africa. The blog is written by a young female documentary filmmaker. The focus so far on the...

Written by Sokari Ekine
27 January 2006

Syria: Blog Censorship in Syria

The Syrian Domari (Arabic) yesterday became the first blog to be censored in Syria. Syria Mirror reported today that the Syrian Computer Society, one of two government-owned internet service providers...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
27 January 2006

Japan: Locked Out

Mutant Frog Travelogue fumes at being blocked from accessing content from the Japanese download sites: “Listen up, Japan: I would gladly PAY for a lot of this stuff! PAY! MONEY!...

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
27 January 2006

Indonesia: Inner Circle

Yosef Ardi begins a promising series of posts profiling the inner circle of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, beginning with “SBY”‘s seven official spokespersons.

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
27 January 2006

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