IT’S THE Carnival season here in Trinidad — 27 days to Carnival Monday, in fact — though you’d hardly know that from reading or listening to CFR (okay, there was podcast #40 with 3canal, though we all confessed in that one that the Carnival spirit hadn’t yet grabbed us). These past several years it’s taken [...]
For a while back there I’d forgotten that I also have a photoblog. Posted today, however, and will try to be more diligent about doing so in the coming weeks.
I hope that by posting items such as the above and last week’s Evo Morales number from Google News, I’m not giving the impression that I spend all day trawling the web trying to catch online media outlets with their pants down. I swear, these things come to me, and I do also have standards: [...]
The Net for Journalists: A practical guide to the Internet for journalists in developing countries is now available both in hard copy and (downloadable) PDF format. The hard copy version includes a CD.
My good friend and Caribbean Beat colleague JT is on a roll today. Over at the Caribbean Beat Blog, he’s started a blog lexicon of sorts, complete with definitions. My favourites: Bloggerise (v.tr.): to stun an opponent into silence by means of bloggery or bloggistry, with the purpose of diverting attention from the issue at [...]
President-elect of Chile (and South America’s “other” woman President) Michelle Bachelet has a blog. Its stated intention is to “communicate the strategic proposals of the government of Michelle Bachelet around Information and Communications technologies and to open up a space for public debate where everyone can share their views and opinions on the digital future [...]
- My mother informed me this evening that Brian Lara was a question on last night’s edition of Jeopardy!. Thankfully my friend J9 over at Francomenz has saved me the trouble of blogging about it. – Our Caribbean colleague Guyana-Gyal has been nominated for a Bloggie Award in the “Best Latin American Weblog” category, so [...]
The Bay of All Saints, Salvador da Bahia by Patricia Carmo Inspired by a line from David Rudder‘s “Bahia Girl” about the affinities between Trinidad and Brazil, I get on Skype with my friend Gillian Marcelle during her sojourn in the enchanting Bahian capital, Salvador, and learn a bit about the land of capoeira and [...]
Just grabbed this off Google News, though they seem to have caught the error, as it had disappeared when I refreshed the page. Somebody should have warned Evo Morales about those alpaca sweaters. Technorati Tags: bolivia, evomorales, GoogleNews, Bolivia, LatinAmerica
EPISODE 40 FINDS ME sounding like I’m just coming off a bout of ‘flu (which I am) and 3canal in a feisty mood as we discuss the football-inspired “Vibes It Up”, their second release for the Carnival season, talk about their upcoming variety show and ponder the champagne-and-caviar road down which Carnival seems to be [...]
THE GENTLEMEN pictured above are Boris Anthony, the brains behind the Global Voices web site, and Marvin Hall, the brains behind Halls of Learning, an organisation that teaches robotics and digital technology to young people in Jamaica. I had the pleasure of meeting these two fine fellows at the Global Voices Summit in London back [...]
THE SHARP CAT in the photo is Roger Roberts of the rapso band 3Canal (a.k.a CFR’s house band), who ran in the Walt Disney World Marathon — his first! — on Sunday 8 January, 2006. Roger completed the race in a more than respectable 4:25:08. Those of you who’ll be in Trinidad in February can [...]
I recently started a group blog for a class in digital audio I’ve been leading up at the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine, Trinidad campus). The class is one of several modules in the Educational Technology diploma course, a new course offering at the UWI School of Education and Humanities. Please feel free [...]
As the new Global Voices Regional Editor for the Caribbean, I’ve been able to recruit a handful of volunteer authors who will now share the responsibilty — praise Jah! — of writing articles for our weekly Friday slot. It is my great pleasure to present to you the first of these pieces, a characteristically ambitious [...]
Those farse Trinis over at the Caribbean Beat Blog want to know what you would include on a list of the Seven Wonders of the Caribbean – how about if you go over there and help them satisfy their curiosity. Technorati Tags: sevenwondersoftheworld, caribbean
This is my computer desktop, photographed only minutes ago. Beginning to wonder whether I might have ADD. . . . Nothing a gift of a new MacBook Pro wouldn’t cure, however.
As I write, desperate measures are being resorted to by Oso, my (now) fellow Global Voices Regional Editor, in response to the division of what he (hopes we’ll believe he’s being ironic when) he calls “my vast empire”. Yes, my friends, the so-called “Americas”, over which Oso has been lording himself since the beginning of [...]
It’s all over the Jamaican news that Jamaican jerk pork and chicken have been included in a list of “50 things to eat before you die” compiled by chef Ainsley Harriot for a BBC television special. Also making the grade were kangaroo, Moretown bay bugs, reindeer and durian. Here’s the complete list, with explanations. Technorati [...]
Of course we’re not the only country in the world where customer service is non-existent, but it’s still nice to be reminded – this one also happens to be hilarious.
I like Giorgio Armani. He strikes me as one of those lovely, quirky, self-centered genius-voluptuaries, and he does make a hell of a garment: as a friend of mine likes to say, you could probably wear an Armani suit turned inside-out. And today I learned that he’s now practically a neighbour! According to Caribbean Net [...]