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July 29, 2006
The Wall Street Journal reports on bloggers in the Mideast who are blogging across the divide. (The Journal has made this piece available without a subscription.) No mention of Global Voices, by the way. [Tags: blogging]
July 25, 2006
Read the round up. Read Lebanese bloggers. We all need to be be made uncomfortable. [Tags: global_voices globalVoices mideast lebanon]
July 20, 2006
Rebecca has a long and important post on a report on Net freedom in China, along with her thoughts about some attempts to hold the world to higher standards.
July 13, 2006
Global Voices rounds up Indian bloggers about the response to the bombings but also about Tom Cruise vs. Rajnikanth.
And where else but Global Voices will you find roundups about Kurdish despair and the Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo? [Tags: india mumbai kurds gays sao_paolo blogs]
July 11, 2006
Chinese blogger and film-maker Wu Hao — a US permanent resident — has been released after five months in a Chinese prison. This comes after a blogosphere campaign, Congressional letters, a WSJ editorial, an op-ed by Rebecca MacKinnon in the Washington Post, and more. Who knows what led the Chinese to let him out, or even what led to them imprisoning him?
But Hao Wu is free. It is a good day. [Tags: hao_wu china]
June 21, 2006
One of the revolutionary ideas of the last few years in the technology industry is that the poor are a market. C.K. Prahalad’s “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” has helped businesspeople realize that people in poor nations have both disposeable income and investment income. People will buy goods that will better their lives, if the right goods and the right business models are made available….
Which brings us to Microsoft’s recent announcement of FlexGo(TM) “pay as you go computing”. While FlexGo is endorsed by Prahalad in Microsoft’s press release, it appears to me that it’s far more likely to be an exploitative than a liberating technology for most users.
Read more… [Tags: ethan_zuckerman microsoft flexgo poverty]
June 11, 2006
Salam Adil at Global Voices aggregates posts (here and here) about the death of Zarqawi. [Tags: iraq zarqawi global_voices gv]
May 25, 2006
Global Voices has produced its first podcast, 17 minutes of voices from around the world. It’s an interesting melange, covering lots of places, topics, styles and, well, voices. [Tags: globalVoices gv podcasts]
April 17, 2006
Global Voices has announced an alliance with Reuters. Reuters has made a “major contribution” to GV via the Berkman Center, which is the home of GV. Reuters will use content created by GV editors and contributors on its Web sites.
I’m finding it hard to be cynical and pessimistic about this. GV gets funded, Reuters has no say in what GV talks about, Reuters’ stories get bottom-up context, and the global voices at Global Voices get heard more broadly. Sounds like good news for news. [Disclosure: I’m a fellow at the Berkman Center, and the founders of GV are good friends.] [Tags: media reuters gv global_voices citizen_journalism journalism]
March 24, 2006
China has started blocking freehaowu.com, freehaowu.org, freewuhao.org and freewuhao.com. They are not (yet) blocking the page those sites pointed to, which is on Ethan’s site. (At that page you’ll find a request to use the tag freehaowu if you blog about him.)
Ethan also has an important post on disintermediating advocacy. [Tags: china freehaowu hao_wu ethan_zuckerman ]
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