Blog for a Cause!: The Global Voices Guide of Blog Advocacy Global Voices’ Advocacy section has published a guide to using blogs in activism. Download it today – for free! – or help translate it into other languages. (tags: advocacy blogging guide manual globalvoices) AfriGadget » The Grassroots Reporting Project (tags: africa journalism citizenmedia technology)
BBCCaribbean.com | Caribbean ponders Venezuela’s ALBA Which Caribbean nations are likely to join Dominica in coming aboard Chavez’s Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA)? (tags: caribbean venezuela) Swajana – life in India Videoblog highlighting aspects of everyday life in India (tags: video videoblogging india) Vuma Kenya Initiative started by a group of US-based Kenyans in [...]
(clockwise from left) “Robber Talk” (detail), Ashraph, “Jumbies” (detail),”Band of Indians”, “Band of de Year?” Ashraph, my friend of more years than either of us likes to remember, opened his latest exhibition yesterday evening at the National Museum in Port of Spain. The striking works riff off ideas about the past, present and future of [...]
Thejesh GN » Global Voices On Map Super Google maps visualisation of Global Voices posts and their points of origin using Yahoo Pipes for geo-coding. (tags: globalvoices maps) With a Whisper, Cuba’s Housing Market Booms – New York Times The ins and outs of real estate transactions in Cuba (tags: cuba caribbean) Calculate your Carbon [...]
Heart of Darkness Nikipedia on the future of Guyana, in light of the recent massacre of 11 innocent people by an infamous criminal don. (tags: guyana crime caribbean southamerica) smARThistory Video podcast by two art historians who contextualise great works of art. (tags: video videoblogging art arthistory visualarts) Newsday | Changes to protocol list Trinidad [...]
RConversation: What is “Asia” and what is “Commons” anyway?? I’ve often wondered whether Creative Commons would fly in Caribbean nations. In this post, Rebecca reviews some of the issues around introducing CC in Asia. Food for thought. (tags: Asia copyright creativecommons) IgnoreAll: The One-Click Facebook Cleanup Tool – ReadWriteWeb Hallelujah! (tags: facebook) Virtual Yardy What [...]
Channel 19 – A Global Social Media Network Featuring Community Produced Video From India (tags: India video citizenmedia youth) Video Volunteers » Launch a Community Video Unit (tags: video citizenmedia) Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library (tags: jamaica genealogy history) Généalogie d’Haïti et de Saint-Domingue Haiti/DR genealogy resource. (tags: Haiti Domnicanrepublic genealogy history) The Caribbean [...]
WeMedia Miami 2008 The conference schedule, which includes David, Solana and me. (tags: conference newmedia wemedia) Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English Creators of video product presentations, tutorials etc in plain English, using paper cutouts. (tags: adv advertising video training tutorial)
Trinidadtunes Download your 2008 soca chunes. Payment by PayPal et al. (tags: trinidad trinidad+tobago soca music) COVERITLIVE.COM – Home Interesting-looking web-based liveblogging tool. (tags: blogging liveblogging apps tools Web2.0 live streaming) El Oso » Blog Archive » [Literacy] Reading Benjamin Franklin’s Blog on my iPhone A real book beats Facebook any day, says El Oso. [...]
I now have ADSL service. Passed by the computer a few minutes ago and noticed the DSL light on the modem was on, so I rubbed my eyes to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, fired up the control panel and voilà — we were in business. And people tell me my smattering of geek skills [...]
I still haven’t received a direct response from TSTT on the matter raised in the letter I sent day before yesterday. I’m wondering, however, if I’m meant accept the sudden fast-tracking of my application for ADSL service (pending since October) as a response of sorts. I’m still waiting for the service to actually be activated, [...]
Notes from the Barn: ANDY PALACIO 1960-2008 – HE RESTS WITH THE ANCESTORS The Belizean musician and Garifuna activist Andy Palacio passed away this weekend, and the world is poorer for it. (tags: belize music caribbean garifuna) NPR Music: Musician Andy Palacio of Belize Dies at Age 47 NPR pays tribute to Andy Palacio. (tags: [...]
Two phone calls this morning from TSTT in response to yesterday’s letter (and blog post), with promises that attention will be paid both to my request and also possibly to my now four month-old application for ADSL service (which is another story altogether). And as it turns out, the e-mail address to which I’d sent [...]
Perhaps if being online weren’t so central to my job it would be different, but the lack of reliable internet access at home is stressing me beyond belief. I never received an answer to my initial letter to TSTT, so I sat down today and wrote the follow-up posted below. It’s already been sent via [...]
Global Voices Online » Barbados: Time for change? Nicholas Laughlin rounds up the blog commentary on the Barbados election at Global Voices. (tags: barbados caribbean elections blogging citizenmedia) How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle Only *partly* tongue-in-cheek article which contends that “Technology makes it more fun and more profitable [...]
“Feluda: The Golden Fortress” by Satyajit Ray Radio dramatisation featuring Satyajit Ray’s Bengali detective Feluda, played by Rahul Bose. (tags: india bengali satyajitray radio dramatisation dramatization audio literature) solanasaurus » Blog Archive » Global Voices #90 blog in the world Technorati says Global Voices is the #90 blog in the world! (tags: globalvoices technorat)
It had to happen sooner or later. A band of “Carnival stakeholders” putting forward the suggestion that Trinidad and Tobago’s age-old pre-lenten Carnival be moved to a more “convenient” date, in this case, “a fixed date in April”. At this point it’s simply an idea that was tabled at a meeting yesterday, and they say [...]
Trinidad and Tobago’s Newsday : Should Muslim juror remove veil? The public and the religious community are called to debate the issue. (tags: religion law trinidad+tobago)
Whose pashmina? Interesting commentary on the circumstances surrounding IP protection and geographical indicator status for the “brand” “Kashmiri pashmina”. (tags: intellectualproperty india pakistan southasia asia) Trinidad and Tobago Express | Hanging Suspicion BC Pires lays bare the absurdity of PM Manning’s plan of resuming hangings in T&T and the cynical response from the Chamber of [...]
