3canal at the ReThePublic concert, September 2007. Photo by Jason Hagley
Caribbean Free Radio
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Sep 29
Caribbean Free Radio #47 – 3canal: Womex or bust!
Sep 27
The Manning blogger revealed. . . sort of
After repeated requests for an interview, I finally got the author of The Secret Blog of Patrick Manning to agree to talk to me via IM in the wee hours of this morning. The transcript of our chat is below, lightly edited, with typos corrected and relevant links inserted. I’m none the wiser as to [...]
Sep 20
Podcast: Anti-smelter activism meets the Internet
[A version of this entry with a slightly different text was cross-posted at Global Voices] In the pages of CFR she’s known as “the Dread”, but to most other people Atillah Springer is a Trinidadian journalist, activist and blogger and a member of a protest movement which, earlier this year, succeeded in driving the aluminium [...]
Sep 13
In Kentucky
I’m in Louisville, Kentucky to attend the Idea Festival. Arrived here yesterday evening a bit dazed after the 11.5 hour journey (via Houston) from Trinidad, and so far have only ventured within a couple of blocks of the hotel to have dinner in Fourth Street, a pedestrianised entertainment hub lined with the likes of TGIF [...]
Sep 10
Under 25′s, apply for this now!
Knight Foundation and MTV Partner on Global Grant Program for Young Digital Journalism Pioneers $500,000 “Young Creators Award” to Fund Digital Journalism Projects that Strengthen Community Ties Sep 6, 2007, MIAMI and NEW YORK – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and MTV announced today the Knight News Challenge “Young Creators Award,” a [...]
Sep 10
Putting political information online
To follow up on my previous post, and also the piece I wrote on Global Voices about the role of the internet in the Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago elections, here’s an excerpt from a comment left by Liz Henry on a Global Voices post about the build-up to the general election in Guatemala (which [...]
Sep 03
Devil’s advocacy, with a dash of optimism
All of this is enough to make me think that the population is really politically savvy and educated despite the lack of structured civics education in our school system. What I worry about is whether the online community, with ready access to computers and the Internet, are an accurate representation of the general population. What [...]