This is Zimbabwe » Blog Archive » Using Google maps to show election rigging in Zimbabwe (tags: elections mashup zimbawbe africa) TV5MONDE – Commisariat de Tampy If you understand French and have access to Joost, you might enjoy watching this TV series from Burkina Faso. (tags: burkinafaso television africa) WWF – Earth Hour Join others [...]
The suspension from Parliament yesterday of Basdeo Panday, Trinidad and Tobago’s leader of the Opposition, for unauthorised laptop use, has left me feeling me terribly confused. Please help me resolve some of the issues surrounding the matter by taking this poll: <a href=”http://www.polldaddy.com” >surveys</a> – <a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/470585/” >Take Our Poll</a> *in June 2006, US Senator [...]
Read, Write and Search for Airport Internet Access and Wi-Fi in Airports with atlarge.com – Travel Connected (tags: travel wireless internet airport)
First it was just the hot water, when my water heater sprung a leak which the technicians took three days to come and repair. Then it was running water period, when the electric pump that drives water from the storage tanks into the house (a necessity in these parts when your house is on a [...]
The Blue Mountain taste test Guardian video showcasing a processing operation for the world’s finest coffee — good old Jamaican Blue Mountain (tags: coffee jamaica agriculture) Perfect Tone, in a Key That’s Mostly Minor – New York Times That people should be stigmatised by past membership in a college a cappella groups seems to me [...]
Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2008 The ’08 report is out: “The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago. And the problems, increasingly, appear to be different than many experts have predicted.” (tags: journalism media news USA)
Micro-credit + Music :: calabashmusic.com “Got $15 bucks? Microfinance a Working Musician and do a world of good.” Calabash Music launches a micro-fund for musicians. (tags: music microfinance) One Water Web site for Sanjeev Chatterjee’s atmospheric film about the future of the world’s water supply. (tags: water environment film documentary) A Drop of Life An [...]
Devangshu Datta: Separate women from the roti “India presents a very grey-scaled picture on this front. India had a woman prime minister and women Supreme Court lawyers and judges long before most of the world. It also has high levels of domestic abuse and dowry-deaths. And of course, there are femal (tags: india women humanrights [...]
The Skeptic الشكاك » The Future Looks Like Egypt “If you want to know the future of humanity, don’t look someplace new. Look someplace old: someplace where dynasties and empires have risen and fallen for thousands of years, someplace where scant land has sustained swelling populations for millennia. L (tags: development egypt environment)
Jamaica Gleaner News – Roadblock? – Clash of the Marley films “Who will play Cindy Breakspeare?” asks a cheeky Nikipedia in the e-mail he sent along with this link to a Gleaner report on the two Bob Marley film projects in the works. (tags: jamaica reggae bobmarley film cinema caribbean) 43% of the population in [...]
Jaman – Movie Download – Amu Rent Shonali Bose’s drama “Amu” for free at jaman.com! Special International Women’s Day offer ends this weekend. (tags: film cinema india)
Art podcast: Private view with Adrian Searle / 1: Peter Doig | Arts | guardian.co.uk Spirited audio description of Peter Doig’s “Man Dressed as Bat”. (tags: podcast art visualart) Active Voice: Gay Courage From Annie in J’ca: “Suffice it to say that far more education and honest debate on the subject needs to take place [...]
Jamaica explores legalising marijuana – Caribbean360.com “Even as the United States State Department points to Jamaica being a hub for marijuana production and export in the Caribbean, the island’s government has revealed it’s exploring the possibility of making the drug legal.” (tags: jamaica marijuana law caribbean drugs)
BigShinyThing » Skirting the issue Women in Johannesburg don miniskirts to stage a protest: “The protest came after Nwabisa Ngcukana, 25, was allegedly attacked by a group of taxi-drivers and street hawkers for wearing a miniskirt.” (tags: humanrights womensrights africa southafrica) Global Voices Online » The Blog for a Cause! guide is now available in [...]
MediaShift . Periodismo Ciudadano::Citizen Journalism Spreads in Spanish-Speaking World | PBS (tags: citizenjournalism spanish latinamerica)