4 July 2007

Stories from 4 July 2007

Bolivia: Political Blog Aggregator

Sebastian Molina of Plan B [ES] helped launch a new blog aggregator called Piensa Bolivia [ES] “Think Bolivia,” which focuses on entries about the political situation in the country.

4 July 2007

Colombia: Blog Competition

Medallo Bloguero [ES] writes about the national blog competition sponsored by the magazine Semana, in which the top three winners will form part of the magazine's bloggers.

4 July 2007

Guatemala: June 30th, A Day to Remember

Every year on June 30, Guatemalans celebrate a festive day, when the Guatemalan Army goes on a parade in the city's center. This year was exceptional because bloggers were the real reporters of the event, and experienced something unusual that happened.

4 July 2007

Congratulations, Rising Voices Grantees

We are thrilled to announce the first five citizen media outreach projects to receive Rising Voices microgrants. In total we received 142 project proposals from over 40 different countries. What all of the project proposals have in common is a desire to enable their communities to tell their own stories, to write their own first draft of history, to document their traditions and culture before they are washed away by the tides of globalization.

4 July 2007

Iran:Selling gasoline in black market

Pa Brehneh Bar Khat says[Fa] that in Bandar Abbas,a port city on the southern coast of Iran,you can hardly find a taxi.The blogger adds after,last week,government rationed gasoline,taximen started to...

4 July 2007

Poland: News Roundup

The beatroot returns with a news roundup: “The EU deal that wasn't; striking doctors and nurses; and the Father Henryk Jankowski – Mel Gibson connection: the usual weird and wonderful...

4 July 2007

Russia: Allofmp3.com Shut Down

Siberian Light writes: “The Russian government has finally bitten the bullet, decided it wants to be in the World Trade Organisation more than it wants to be seen as a...

4 July 2007

Ukraine: Yanukovych's Crimea House

Ukrainiana reposts pictures of Victor Yanukovych's Crimea residence and writes: “As “people all over Ukraine struggle to make both ends meet” — the truth championed in a recent Party of...

4 July 2007

China: Beijing tap water drinkable?

Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a local report about drinkable Beijing tap water. However he also pointed out: the fact that the city's tap water is drinkable doesn't mean it's...

4 July 2007