Comments on: Friday Global Blog Roundup

By: International Blogger

International Blogger — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:39:43 +0000

Where’s the American Wiki ?

By: Joseph Bosco

Joseph Bosco — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 02:58:55 +0000

Hi, folks,

Thank you for the post about
WOW: We Observe the World being featured on CCTV International’s “Dialogue” program this past Friday, June 10th. It is greatly appreciated by the journalism students at Beijing Foreign Studies University. The irony of the authorities choosing to air the segment when it did is very real to me and quite puzzling. Most of the show had been in the can for months, so it was not accidental. For whatever reasons, the Central Government has seen fit to leave WOW free and uncensored. I am the only person who sees the student’s articles before they go online. This is with the full knowledge and blessing of the deans and Party cadres I work for. I do not know why.

The story behind the story can be read in Quill, the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists: A Moment in Beijing http://www.spj.org/quill_issue.asp?ref=689.

All the best,

Joseph Bosco

By: Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:14:00 +0000

Zimpundit,
Thanks for your comment. We appreciate your concern. I don’t think Paul was deliberately ignoring Africa. His problem is that posting this daily roundup is a daunting, overwhelming task, so he ends up focusing more heavily on different regions on different days. This is not ideal but having done the roundups myself, I can sympathize.

That said, there is a solution: bloggers around the world can help us make the daily roundups more thorough and inclusive. If you’d like to ensure that we cover Africa in the way you’d like, please email us links you think should be included in the daily roundup to: globalvoices.dailylinks@gmail.com

Also note that we are in the process of redesigning and restructuring the site, with the hope that the daily roundups will in the future be authored by people around the world – not just by one person sitting here in Cambridge.

Thanks, and we look forward to your frequent emails & suggestions in the future.

Rebecca

By: Jinja

Jinja — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 04:51:13 +0000

Thanks for the mention, this is a great site! We want to get Cambodia more wired up, looks like you’ve got some good tools for that.

One group doing good work with infrastructure is http://www.khmeros.info. And you’ve probably already seen http://www.aidworld.org

- J

By: zimpundit

zimpundit — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 02:43:25 +0000

Paul,
Are we to infer from the absence of Africa in today’s roundup that there’s nothing from the blogs that’s noteworthy about the enitre continent? I think not. Even your patent bias towarrds bloggers from one particular country that seem to have well entrenched roots over there would have been something.

You can’t have a complete blackout and expect to retainthe global democracy at the core of the values of this worthy enterprise.

Please notice us, for the sake of the “global” in Global Voicee