Stories from 11 February 2006
Selections from the Caribbean blogosphere
This week the Caribbean saw presidential elections taking place in Haiti, violence erupting in Spanish Town, Jamaica, and Hosay observances in Trinidad. Here's the blogosphere's take on these events: Haiti: Presidential Elections February 7th’s presidential election in Haiti seemed at first to belong to René Préval. The New York Times...
What Salvadoran Bloggers are Saying
This is the first in a new series of biweekly articles looking at what bloggers are saying from El Salvador and about El Salvador. Every two weeks I'll take a look at what you can find in the Salvadoran “blogosphere.” The universe of Salvadoran blogs is fairly young. One of...
From the Jordanian Blogosphere
The Jordanian blogosphere has a lot to say on the Jordanian constitution this week. Naseem Tarawneh writes about the 200 temporary laws and the Jordanian Constitution created between 1999 and 2005. Lina Ejeilat meanwhile is angry at the situation regarding the arrest of Chief Editors of the two weekly tabloids,...
Iran: A Deadly Mistake
FMSokhan ( Persian), Iran based blogger and journalist, writes life of Mrs. Afroutan, Tamadon Hormozgan journalist, is in danger in prison. She and several other journalists were arrested when they published, by mistake, an article in scientific section of journal about” How Aids Came to Iran”. Article had been taken...
Bloglogue: Iran in the Media
Bloglogue project finally was launched on webgardian blog with the following questions: Do you think the news that we get about Iran or sensitive issues are biased? Why? And how can bloggers or non bloggers as individuals communicate non biased news? Dream or reality? Six contributors, four bloggers and two...
Lesser of Two Evils
ESWN discusses which is the lesser of two evils in terms of blog censorship: MSN Spaces which follows the orders of the Chinese government, or China's own BSPs?
Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz Government Sniping
Registan.net discusses a war of words in Kyrgyzstan's government.
