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15 July 2005

Daily archive · 5 posts

Stories from 15 July 2005

Voices from the Wiki

Written by Ethan Zuckerman · Latin America

Part of the human and technical magic that allows Global Voices to function is a lively wiki, where users around the world are able to tell us about blogs and...

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Khalid Jarrar: Iraqi blogger detained

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Middle East & North Africa

Blogger Khalid Jarrar, author of Secrets in Baghdad, remains in custody of the Iraqi intelligence service, known as the Mukhabarat. As we reported yesterday, Khalid's brother Raed says their family...

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Podcasting/Video Blogging Workshop in Accra Next Thursday

Written by Andy Carvin · Ghana

I just wanted to let everyone know that I'll be conducting a podcasting and videoblogging workshop in Accra next week. It's currently scheduled for Thursday, July 21 at 14:00 GMT at the offices of African Security Dialogue and Research. Their office is located on Kofi Annan Avenue, just off Atomic Agency Road, North Legon. If you're in Accra and would like to attend, please RSVP to Amos Anyimadu at accraboy @ fastmail.fm, in case the time or location changes. I hope to see some of you there! -andy

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Flickr Pick from Indonesia

Written by Paul Frankenstein · East Asia

Photograph by Kenny Stoltz

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Flickr Pick From Argentina

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

“Madre of Cromagnon Victim” by Jeff Barry

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Updates from 15 July 2005

Ecuador

Eduardo Ochoa points to [es] Édgar Ríos' new watchdog blog, Manta y las bases de EE.UU [es], which asks why troop transport planes are flying out of a U.S. military base which is supposed to be dedicated to monitoring narco-trafficking.

• David Sasaki

Nicaragua

Picasso Dreams writes of doing laundry, finding internet, reality television, cheap eats, and generally settling in to Nicaraguan life.

• David Sasaki

Uruguay

Rodolfo Pilas gives a summary of open source software projects based in Uruguay. [es]

• David Sasaki

Bolivia

Boz agrees with Blog from Bolivia that Evo Morales doesn't have a chance of winning the Bolivian special elections in December. He calls the Council on Hemispheric Affairs far out of touch with reality for their insistence that he does because of his anti-US perspective.

• David Sasaki

Venezuela

Daniel of Venezuela News and Views calls Chavez's new initiative, Mision Cultura, a Venezuelan attempt of a Cultural Revolution or Kulturkampf.

• David Sasaki

Singapore

Tomorrow.sg points to the blog of a local Singaporean actor.

• Paul Frankenstein

Philippines

The Filipino blog Ambot Ah! has launched a new blog service called Pinoy Top Blogs. It's an attempt to try to quantify what the Filipino/a blogger A-List really is…

• Paul Frankenstein

Malaysia

Popular Malaysian blogger Kenny Sia, armed with “a (borrowed) huge ass digital SLR camera,” crashes the Miss Tourism Pageant 2005 Kuching Preview Show and returns with lots of pictures. The event was not without some controversy; Miss Ethiopia was quarantined at the airport because she failed to produce a medical certificate and Miss Tibet refused to compete because the Chinese government forced to enter the competition as Miss Tibet-China.

• Paul Frankenstein