Stories from 6 August 2007
China and South Korea: China’s pride offended
Some pet shop in Yongin City (in South Korea) had made a photoshoped version of Tiananmen gate that used a picture of a dog instead of Chairman Mao — the...
China: Blogger goes to court
Back in late February, bridge blogger I, Yee wrote a post on the plight of Yetaai, an open source programmer in Shanghai who had noticed that a website of his...
El Salvador: Declaring Romero a Saint
Tim Muth of Tim El Salvador's Blog links to two recent stories, which helps explain the politics behind whether slain Archbishop Oscar Romero will be declared a saint.
Peru: 7 Wonders of Lima
Juan Arellano of Globalizado [ES] recaps the campaign to list the 7 Wonders of Lima.
Colombia: Mask Making and New Media
Juliana Rincón Parra unveils the work of Taller Santo Domingo [ES], which was a workshop in the city of Medellín where students made masks and incorporated the use of new...
Argentina: Cristina Kirchner and the Classmate Laptop
Pablo Mancini [ES] writes about the recent photo where Presidential candidate Cristina Kirchner appears at a table with a Classmate laptop in front of her.
Argentina: Following the Impacts of Mining
The environmental impact of the mining sector is not confined to Argentina. However, Luis Claps is a blogger that closely follows and provides coverage to some of these stories not covered in other media sources. He is also the Spanish editor for a network of websites that follows similar cases all around the world. GV author Jorge Gobbi recently interviewed Claps about the internet coverage of these mining cases.
