4 December 2008

Stories from 4 December 2008

India: Why CEOs Should Blog Daily

  4 December 2008

Rajesh Jain at Emergic writes about the importance of blogging by a CEO/founder of a company: “Blogging can probably open up as many opportunities as a good meeting can — in a way one cannot directly imagine.”

Sudan: Deployment of a joint AU & UN force to Darfur

  4 December 2008

AK of For Sudan comments on the Sudanese government accepting a agreed to the deployment to Darfur of a joint force of the African Union and the United Nations: “So is this a move in the right direction? Absolutely! However, the ‘international community’ i.e. the US has been focusing too...

Japan: Print Media in Crisis

  4 December 2008

Ampontan translated an article from a magazine which gives an overview of the problems faced by the Japanese print media with a few suggestions for overcoming those problems.

Romania: Election Results

  4 December 2008

An update on the results of the parliamentary election in Romania this past Sunday – at Corina Murafa: “Few Romanians left their cosy apartments for a trip to the ballot box (a bit less than 40% of them , to be more precise), and there’s worrisome statistics indicating that only...

Japan: Fukuoka Bar Association requests halt to Street View

  4 December 2008

Matimulog reports on news that the Fukuoka Bar Association has made a declaration requesting that Google halt its Street View service [ja], launched in August of this year in Japan to mixed reviews, due to its violation of the right to privacy. The blogger writes: “I can't help but wonder:...

Estonia: TV

  4 December 2008

A note on Estonian TV from AnTyx: “At this exact moment, the Estonian state TV channel is broadcasting the advent mass – live from one of the country's biggest prisons. […]” And a reader's comment to this post: “A remark to foreign readers of this: calm down, Estonia still remains...

Czech Republic: Moravia

  4 December 2008

The Journeys of Captain Oddsocks writes that “Moravia and Moravians deserve more recognition for their homeland and the role they’ve played in Czech and European history.”

Russia: Blogging the Crisis

  4 December 2008

IZO links to “a crisis blog tracking lay-offs (Sokratili, in Russian)” and translates a quote from it: “in some departments of Mayak [radio station] 40% have been laid off immediately, at gazeta.ru [online paper] 50%, at rbk [business paper] nearly 2/3 have been sacked.”

A day in the life of a Zimbabwean

  4 December 2008

At the Kubatana blogs, Godfrey Macheso describes a typical day in Zimbabwe, which involves a lot of waiting in line. He concludes: “everything about, and around you seems to be hard hit by complications and there is no way to solve any of the issues at stake”.