Stories from 22 December 2006
Madagascar: The First Indian Ocean Musical Network
El Sono Mondial announces that (Fr): “A seminar about financial management of cultural enterprises specializing in music (organized by the International Organization of La Francophonie) took place last week [in Madagascar] … The participants discussed creating the first Indian Ocean musical and cultural network.“
“India Should Become a Model for Africa”
At Le Blog de PKJ Agency, Frederic Kingue Johnson reports (Fr) the thoughts of Cameroonian Jacques Bonjawo, a former senior manager at Microsoft and CEO of Genesis Futuristic Technologies: “Bonjawo is convinced that there are lots of similarities between India and Africa and that it is imperative that the black...
Costa Rica Blog Wrapup: CAFTA, Christmas and arts.
Highlights from Costa Rica's blogs these past weeks. We have more on the CAFTA, complaints on Christmas, and posts on artistic and cultural events. We'll begin with a touch of humour: Lachi in Prueba de Artista posts a video taken during an Anime-manga event where they got an undesired dose...
Festival Internacional de la Cancion de Autor
Panamanian songwriter Gonzalo Horna has a review about the first Festival Internacional de la Canción de Autor in which he participated as the opening artist. Read more about this event.
Argentina: Music: Holy – Cascarano
With English lyrics and “melodies that combine pop, rock, folk, and dub” the latest Holy production, Cascarana, has been released under a 2.0 Creative Commons License. Fernando Casale has all the tracks available for download.
Venezuela: SMS Election Info
Justin Oberman describes how were able to find out information about their polling stations via SMS with their cell phones.
China: more on boycotting Christmas
Granitestudio comments on the recent call by PhD students in China on boycotting Christmas celebration.
China: blogender
An online test (zh) about blogger's gender by analyising the language in the blogpost.
Taiwan: please speak Chinese
Holly blogs about her frustration in learning Chinese in Taiwan, and she hopes that her Chinese friends can speak Chinese to her.
Japan: how to survive the year end party
Alexpappas from Japundit gives the readers some tips on how to survive a Japanese style year end party – Bonenkai.
Hong Kong: blogger alliance against Star Ferry demolition
Some bloggers in Hong Kong started an alliance against the demolition of Star Ferry and Queen's Pier. Anson Mak collects all the posts and newspapers reports together at beyond the stars (zh).