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5 September 2005

Daily archive · 4 posts

Stories from 5 September 2005

Nigerian Blogging Scene

Written by Edward Popoola · Sub-Saharan Africa

As the world is getting along well with blogging,the face of blogging in Nigeria is changing surely but slowly. As at the time of writing this piece there are not much (home based) Nigerians blogging especially when looked at in relationship to the number of people using the Internet in the country.

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Katrina Help Lines from the KatrinaHelp.info team

Written by Neha Viswanathan · North America

Katrina Help Lines from the KatrinaHelp.info team

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Images from Chile: Letter to the Government

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

“Primera Carta al Gobierno sobre ‘Mi Primer PC'” by Leo Prieto As we have previously written about, a group of Chilean bloggers is challenging their government to improve a program...

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From the South Asian Blogworld

Written by Uma MD · South Asia

From the South Asian Blogworld

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Updates from 5 September 2005

Colombia

Plan Colombia and Beyond compares Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina with President Uribe's response to the besiegement of Toribío, Cauca by FARC guerrillas in April of this year.

• David Sasaki

Brazil

Atari in Rio is a fan of the São Paulo-based rock group, Cansei de Ser Sexy (”Tired of Being Sexy”) and links to two of their songs.

• David Sasaki

Brazil

Brazilian blogger, André Lemos writes on the Best of the Blogs weblog about coverage of Katrina in the Brazilian blogosphere.

• David Sasaki

Bolivia

Miguel Centallas has a Flickr set of Bolivian Newspaper graphics from May 27 to August 05 of this year.

• David Sasaki

Bolivia

Both Jim Shultz and Almada de Noche [ES] (who will soon be leaving for France) recap yesterday's “Pedestrian Day” in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

• David Sasaki

Bolivia

Eduardo of Barrio Flores writes that conservative presidential candidate, Tuto Qurigoa has selected María René Duchén, from Santa Cruz, as his running-mate.

• David Sasaki

Mongolia

Mongolia Matters reports on the demolition of the Soviet-style mausoleum of two prominent Mongolian leaders, Choibalsan and Sukhbataar, whose bodies have now been removed and cremated.

• Luisetta Mudie

Poland

Polblog has an audioblog and photos documenting the state of disrepair of the Polish capital, Warsaw.

• Luisetta Mudie

Ethiopia

See Ethiopia through the eyes of Ethiopians with digital cameras in this stunning photo-blog project.

• Luisetta Mudie

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

Kevin Shockey compares the lack of grassroots-level technological innovation in Puerto Rico with that of Ireland. He has planned a small conference in mid-October to “kick start [a] Web 2.0 economy.”

• David Sasaki

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