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December, 2004

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Stories from December, 2004

14 December 2004

WSISblogs.org: An Idea Worth Developing?

Written by Andy Carvin · Announcements

Last night on a whim, I went online and bought the domain names wsisblogs.org and wsisblogs.com. There's been a dearth of media coverage regarding the upcoming 2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and its important policy outcomes, including Internet governance, bridging the digital divide and online freedom of expression. So I propose aggregating all the civil society bloggers who will be participating in the process to help make up for the shameful lack of mainstream media coverage.

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13 December 2004

Digital Divide Network Launches New Online Community

Written by Andy Carvin · Announcements

As I announced today on my blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth, the new Digital Divide Network website is now open for business.

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12 December 2004

Grateful thanks, and some next steps

Written by Ethan Zuckerman · Citizen Media

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Manifesto session next steps

Written by Joi Ito · Citizen Media

I just uploaded the log of the IRC session for the Global Voice manifesto session. It definitely needs to be edited. I'll try to do it soon, but if someone...

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Virality

Written by Joi Ito · Citizen Media

A lot of the virality stuff I talked about yesterday came from discussions with Jonah Peretti who did ForwardTrack and Reid Hoffman, the former SVP of PayPal, Francesco Cara and...

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11 December 2004

Wiki for participants

Written by Hossein Derakhshan · Citizen Media

You can now use Global Voices wiki page to register your name and blog, so we all can keep in touch after the conference.

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10 December 2004

Academic paper on Persian blogging

Written by Hossein Derakhshan · Iran

Alireza Doostdar, an Iranian Harvard gruadute student, has published his interesting paper in American Anthropologist, entitled “ “The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging”: On Language, Culture, and Power in Persian Weblogestan.”...

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9 December 2004

Andrea: Roundup on blogosphere development in China and Hong Kong

Written by Isaac Mao · Citizen Media

Rational blogger Andrea wrapped up recent resonates about China and Hongkong's blogosphere in her T-Salon blog: Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at UC Berkeley, has put the...

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8 December 2004

Ory on Kenyan blogs

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Kenya

Ory Okolloh has written a briefing paper on Kenyan blogs as part of the I&S conference materials here (PDF file). She says that blogging has been a life-changing experience for...

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Rashmi Sinha: some thoughts and introduction

Written by Rashmi Sinha · South Asia

Among other issues, I am interested in understanding how to support real dialog - not just people talking, but also listening to each other. Current tools support self-expression quite well....

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