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March 20, 2006
Hao Wu, a Chinese documentary filmmaker and blogger, who’d lived in the US for 12 years, has been detained for a month by the Chinese government without being charged with a crime. Under the name Tian Yi, he’s been an editor at Global Voices. The site at this point has no recommendations for action… [Tags: china hao+wu globalvoices censorship]
February 2, 2006
Global Voices has a blithely written, pessimistic roundup of Iraqi bloggers and a report on the first week in office of Bolivian president Evo Morales. [Tags: global_voices iraq bolivia]
January 28, 2006
Islamicate blogs a review of Reza Aslan’s No God but God about the history and future of Islam. The review makes me want to read the book… [Tags: islam islamicate reza+aslan reviews books]
January 26, 2006
Hoder, the Iranian blogger is in Israel. He writes:
[Tags: hoder israel]I’m going to Israel as a citizen journalist and a peace activist.
As a citizen journalist, I’m going to show my 20,000 daily Iranian readers what Israel really looks like and how people live there. The Islamic Republic has long portrayed Israel as an evil state, with a consensual political agenda of killing every single man and woman who prays to Allah, including Iranians.
I’m going to challenge that image.
January 24, 2006
Want to get the latest updates from bloggers around the world but you just don’t have time to check an RSS feed? Global Voices is now willing to insert daily digests straight into your inbox. [Tags: globalVoices]
January 3, 2006
Rebecca reports that MSN Spaces has kicked off Anti, a popular blogger who is critical of the Chinese government.
Scoble has just posted in no uncertain terms his disagreement with his employer. (If Microsoft gives Scoble any guff, he should remind them that this is exactly why companies need to have bloggers.) [Tags: RebeccaMackinnon scoble microsoft china blogging censorship]
December 29, 2005
Ethan Zuckerman has put together a 10-question quiz about the year in Africa. 60% is a high score, Ethan says. The good news: You couldn’t do worse than me. Note to self: Must read Global Voices more.
And on his blog, Ethan crunches some numbers to show the growing presence of Chinese blogs. For example, MSN is hosting at least 2 million Chinese language blogs. And Ethan wonders if blogs on Bokee, the popular Chinese blogging platform, are even showing up in the statistics. Says Ethan: “Researchers hoping to make broad statements about weblogs are going to have to start getting profoundly polylingual.” [Tags: GlobalVoices EthanZuckerman china blogosphere]
December 15, 2005
Haitham is a Palestinian blogger who went to the Global Voices conference in London last week. As the result of a long walk and conversation — and who knows what else happens in someone’s heart — he has changed his mind, in public, an act of personal and political courage.
In his post you see hope gaining an ally. Thank you, Haitham.
“It is not incumbent upon us to finish the task, but neither are we free to refrain from beginning it.” — Rabbinic quote, cited by the Velveteen Rabbi.
December 13, 2005
Rebecca MacKinnon reports on the recent Global Voices meetup. Fascinating and heartening. [Tags: GlobalVoices RebeccaMackinnon blogging]
December 3, 2005
Amanda Michel of the Berkman Center interviews Global Voices founders Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman. GV is currently being visited by a quarter million people a month, won Deutsche Welle’s Best Journalist Blog in English award, and is increasingly being used by the mainstream media to find out what’s happening in the world.
[Tags: GlobalVoices EthanZuckerman RebeccaMackinnon berkman AmandaMichel]
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