Comments on: Monday World Blog Roundup

By: Filipino Librarian

Filipino Librarian — Fri, 27 May 2005 00:08:20 +0000

Yan ang Pinay

And now it has become a movement. With its own logo!

By: The Old Revolution

The Old Revolution — Tue, 24 May 2005 14:34:24 +0000

Spirit of the Cyber-Gift

Much thanks to Lorenz at anthropologi.info for posting on the gift economy in cyberspace. He lists many links that given time I would like to read through.
I am fascinated by the claim that Internet culture fosters a gift economy. Because the sp…

By: Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon — Tue, 24 May 2005 13:13:07 +0000

Clair,
Happy to help! If it’s any consolation, a google search on “Global Voices” brings up a porn site as the second item… nobody can escape!!

By: Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon — Tue, 24 May 2005 13:06:38 +0000

Nathan & RS, Many apologies. The text has been corrected.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 23 May 2005 11:26:45 +0000

I’m not sure they are blocked exactly. I’ll look into it more, but RS can get to TypePad from their office.

By: RS

RS — Mon, 23 May 2005 11:19:36 +0000

I think you need to correct your statement that
Nathan at Registan.net said that Typepad blogs
“are now blocked.” He correctly reported that
“access to Typepad appears to be blocked in
Uzbekistan”, emphasis should be placed on the
word “appears”. I hope you understand the
journalistic responsibilities here. As a blogger
in Uzbekistan, I can now report that it is again
possible to blog from my office.

By: Wannabe Lawyer

Wannabe Lawyer — Mon, 23 May 2005 09:59:55 +0000

Thanks for the link!

By: Clair Ching

Clair Ching — Mon, 23 May 2005 05:47:38 +0000

Thanks for linking up! We really want to get heard. I believe that women (not just Filipinas) should only be known as mail order brides and desperate to get hooked up with men. I believe that people may be like that sometimes but for search engine results to mainly give results that are like that is very demeaning.