1 March 2010

Stories from 1 March 2010

Poland: Fighting Cancer Online

Lenka is a joyful 5-year-old and Paula is an interior design student in her early twenties. You wouldn’t think that they have anything in common but they do. They both have cancer and they both have blogs describing their fight with the disease.

1 March 2010

Chile: Chaos in the Province of Curicó

“Chaotic continues to the situation that province of Curicó faces,” writes Luis Alberto Cabello of the blog Vivimos la Noticia [es] written from the Chilean province that was one of...

1 March 2010

Russia: Bloggers Vs. “Patricians” on the Road

RuNet Echo

Following a recent car crash in Moscow, bloggers launched an advocacy campaign to rehabilitate the memory of the two women killed in the crash and draw attention to a pressing issue of cars with "special" license plates that constantly disobey the rules and cause traffic accidents.

1 March 2010

Chile: Earthquake Effects in Maule

The citizen newspaper Maulee [es] based in Maule, the epicenter region of the Chilean earthquake provides updates on how the region was affected, including fatalities, road conditions, and recommendations from...

1 March 2010

India: Blog Camp Experience

Priya Kanwar at Reading Cafe shares her experience of being part of the Blog Camp in Mumbai. She lists links of some fellow bloggers’ reactions on the event.

1 March 2010

Trinidad & Tobago: Missing Money

“The quality of our political rulers has now joined in unholy matrimony with the sheer recklessness of their anointed deal-makers to put our economy into an entirely new and perilous...

1 March 2010

Barbados, Haiti: Being Prepared

“What is clear is the changing climatic conditions affecting the world, the Caribbean included”: On the heels of two major earthquakes in the region, Barbados Underground wonders “what can we...

1 March 2010

Bermuda: Term Limits

Vexed Bermoothes and The Devil Island maintain that the “term limiting out” of a particular journalist “is a bad and self-defeating move: he’s the best known business journalist associated with...

1 March 2010