SlideShare – presentations from the Global Voices Summit 2008 (tags: powerpoint global) Escuchar al mundo para mejorarlo · ELPAÍS.com El País coverage of the second day of the Global Voices Summit (tags: globalvoices)
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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Jun 28
Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008
Let’s put the fact that I’m probably the only member of the Global Voices community who hasn’t yet blogged about the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 — going on right now in Budapest, Hungary — down to shoemaker’s child syndrome: I’ve been way too busy organising the thing to do much else lately. Yesterday [...]
Jun 27
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Politics on the web | Blog standard | Economist.com Article on cyberactivism by Evgeny Morozov mentioning the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit. (tags: cyberactivism globalvoices)
Jun 25
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Google MapMaker enabled for Trinidad and Tobago « Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society “Google Map Maker is enabled for Trinidad and Tobago (and several other Caribbean islands). Read the Google MapMaker Getting Started Guide and begin adding content to Google MapMaker Trinidad and Tobago” (tags: google maps caribbean trinidad+tobago)
Jun 20
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Translation and Participatory Media: Experiences from Global Voices Great paper by GV’s Japanese language editor, Chris Salzberg, examining Global Voices’ translation section (tags: translation globalvoices)
Jun 19
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CaribWorldNews.com – Census Campaign For Accurate Caribbean Count To Kick-Off In NYC “The CARIBID 2010 CAMPAIGN is a movement to ensure Caribbean American or West Indians get their own category on the U.S. Census, whether on the short form or in the American Survey initiative invisible as an economic and political bloc in mainstream Ameri [...]
Jun 18
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Wired News – AP to meet with blogging group to form guidelines “”If they take those guidelines and start using them to refine the way they make complaints, and if they closely match the law, then it’s helpful – it’s a restraint on their own legal department… If they were on the other hand to [...]
Jun 12
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Campaign:JA gays fight to get into UN AIDS meeting | DigiActive.org “…. The Jamaican government went as far as preventing its country’s leading gay rights group from even attending the New York meeting. Bloggers throughout the Caribbean are taking the country’s government to task.” (tags: caribbean jamaica LGBT)
Jun 08
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Open Source » Blog Archive » Calabash ‘08 (Pt 3) Reggae & the Obama Moment (tags: jamaica obama caribbean podcast literaure)
Jun 06
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The distraction of Walcott vs Naipaul | Books | guardian.co.uk Nikipedia posts his two cents’ on the Walcott-Naipaul feud at the Guardian blog (tags: literature caribbean derekwalcott vsnaipaul)
Jun 04
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BOMB Magazine: Ned Sublette by Garnette Cadogan Ned Sublette is “kinetic energy made flesh”, writes Garnette Cadogan in this BOMB interview about Sublette’s new book on New Orleans (tags: neworleans culture socialhistory USA) JOHO – May 30, 2008 “How much do we have to care about?” asks David Weinberger, with a little help from Ethan [...]
Jun 03
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Rhyme and punishment for Naipaul | News | guardian.co.uk Books (tags: literature caribbean walcott naipaul)
Jun 02
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Life, Death and Twitter on the African Savannah “For veteran wildlife ranger Joseph Kimojino, the traditional tools of his trade — binoculars, off-road jeep and a rifle — have been supplemented by Twitter, Flickr and a blog.” (tags: africa flickr kenya nature twitter blogging)
Jun 01
Ratty
Ratty would now be in his mid-twenties, I figured. If he was still alive. In 1996, when I met him, he didn’t look like a kid with a promising future. He had puffy eyelids which gave him a slow, sleepy appearance and seemed to have difficulty grasping basic concepts. Like the reason I wasn’t overjoyed [...]
Jun 01
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Open Source » Blog Archive » Calabash ‘08 (Part 2): As Others See Us Chris Lydon’s second despatch from the Calabash litfest (tags: caribbean jamaica literature) The South African Xenophobia crisis – Afrigator African blog aggregator Afrigator sets up a page to compile content discussing the South African Xenophobia crisis (tags: africa southafrica xenophobia)