Attacks Show Easygoing Jamaica Is Dire Place for Gays – New York Times (tags: jamaica homosexuality caribbean humanrights) Yamli Editor The easy way to write Arabic! (via Amira) (tags: arabic editor language translation web2.0)
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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Feb 27
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A resource for activists using mobile technology worldwide. | MobileActive.org Tool for organising and mobilsation using mobile technology (tags: mobiletechnology cellphone technology activism)
Feb 27
WeMedia Miami 2008
The 10-member Global Voices team managed to make it out of the GV House this morning in time to arrive at the Storer Auditorium shortly before 830am. Sitting in the fifth row with Amira, Renata, Jillian, Chris, Cristina and Eddie, while WeMedia head honchos Dale Peskin and Andrew Nachison make introductory remarks. Solana has been [...]
Feb 26
Global Voices bloggers not cause of power outage in South Florida
The Global Voices team’s Miami headquarters in Coconut Grove The first sign was the failing wifi signal, accessible, after a while, only to people with the last name “Avila“. Then the power went completely. We eventually located the fuse box, and toggled every switch we could find. No go. For relaxation, members of the Global [...]
Feb 22
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YouTube – PBS/BBC – Why Democracy? – Please Vote for Me 1/5 “In an elementary school in the city of Wuhan in central China, three eight-year-old students campaign for the coveted position of class monitor. This is the first election for a class leader to be held in China.” (via Isaac Mao on Twitter) (tags: [...]
Feb 21
Digital Journalism course for Caribbean Reporters and Editors
Knight Center Develops Online Introductory Course in Digital Journalism for Caribbean Reporters and Editors The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, as part of its new focus as a digital media training center, has developed an introductory course to digital journalism that it will offer for the first time from March 3 to April [...]
Feb 21
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BBCCaribbean.com | The Caribbean on Castro Diplomatic responses from Caribbean leaders to the Castro retirement announcement. (tags: caribbean cuba =) NomadsLand – No Borders | Editors’ Choice Films about social issues available for rental or purchase. (tags: film documentary video) Knight Digital Media Center: Total Community Coverage Amy Gahran’s session outline for “Connecting with Communities [...]
Feb 20
Lunar eclipse – February 20, 2008
Seen from my home in Diego Martin, Trinidad. Technorati Tags: “lunar eclipse” eclipse moon astronomy sky trinidad caribbean
Feb 18
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Paradise of Lies – New York Times Poet and activist Stacey Ann Chin recounts the bad old days growing up in Jamaica. (tags: jamaica personalhistory memoir literature caribbean) Welcome to FrontlineSMS “Are you a locally- or internationally-based NGO looking at the potential to use mobile phone text messages to reach specific groups of individuals within [...]
Feb 16
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Knight Center Develops Course in Digital Journalism for Caribbean media workers “The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, as part of its new focus as a digital media training center, has developed an introductory course to digital journalism that it will offer for the first time from March 3 to April 4, 2008, to [...]
Feb 15
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globeandmail.com: Kenya, one click at a time Thoughtful piece on the role of the internet in the Kenyan post-elections crisis, featuring a few of my Global Voices colleagues. (tags: kenya citizenmedia) YouTube – Mighty Sparrow: Barack the Magnificent Trinidadian calypso great The Mighty Sparrow backs up his endorsement of Obama with a song. (tags: calypso [...]
Feb 15
Save the Boissiere House!
A historic building in Trinidad is in danger of demolition. Please visit the web site and sign the petition. Technorati Tags: trinidad and tobago, architecture, victorian, conservation, history, port of spain, boissiere house
Feb 14
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WordPress 2.5 Demo Site Test drive the upcoming release of WordPress. (tags: wordpress)
Feb 13
Why we Twitter
The first thing I thought to do as I felt my desk and chair start shaking, albeit gently, about 40 minutes ago, was to post to Twitter: “Earthquake here in Trinidad!” Within two minutes I had a response from the intrepid iange, asking: “what’s the value of the quake, don’t see any seismic senors which [...]
Feb 13
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Keith in Trinidad…: Save Our Dolphins! Dolphins – caught as a by-catch or opportunistically – have appeared on the T&T market, apparently to fulfil the Lenten requirement for fish. (tags: trinidad+tobago caribbean environment) THEWEEKDaily.com | Book piracy alert? Says one commentator: ““It’s almost impossible to sell self-digitization to the iPod generation” because “it’s so much [...]
Feb 12
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Harvard Proposal to Publish Scholarly Research Free on the Internet – New York Times Harvard faculty to vote on a measure that would allow Harvard to post their scholarship online. (Via Nikipedia) (tags: education opensource openaccess publishing) Pangea Day “On May 10, 2008 – Pangea Day – sites in Cairo, Dharamsala, Kigali, London, New York [...]
Feb 11
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20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog) Video presentation by Larry Lessig weaving the factual, philosophical and emotional arguments for voting for Obama into a pretty solid whole. (tags: elections USA obama larrylessig politics) Google Maps Mania Blog tracking Google maps mashups. (tags: google googlemaps mashup web2.0) JAHTARI Interesting site specialising [...]
Feb 10
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Making Mas: Creating Carnival’s costumes Photographer Mark Lyndersay’s gallery of images taken in various mas’ camps (costume-making workshops) in Trinidad. (tags: trinidad+tobago carnival photography)
Feb 10
TSTT: it’s not over yet
Apologies for boring you again with the TSTT saga, but I feel it is important to document these things in public. Someone hinted to a relative of mine recently that I had failed to express sufficient gratitude on this blog to TSTT, my internet service providers. I believe (or hope) the comment was tongue-in-cheek, as [...]
Feb 09
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Sunil Sethi: Why Delhi is India`s Book Capital Bad planning screws up Kolkata’s book fair, paving the way for Delhi’s rival event to take the lead. (tags: India publishing books) Global Voices Online » Carnival: Videos from around the world Jules Rincóon shows us how they do in the other Carnival nations. (tags: carnival globalvoices [...]