13 January 2006
Stories from 13 January 2006
Peru Recently
After a while of blogging inactivity, I'm back. And nothing better to start with than summaries of what happenned in 2005. Franc of Apuntes Peruanos at Perú en los blogs...
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After a while of blogging inactivity, I'm back. And nothing better to start with than summaries of what happenned in 2005. Franc of Apuntes Peruanos at Perú en los blogs...
In my view Global Voices has helped highlight Malawi in ways unimaginable.
In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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Jim Shultz covers Garcia Linera's visit to the Democracy Center where he met with social movement leaders. According to Shultiz, the vice president-elect sees the Morales presidency as a new shift, but that “political power in Bolivia remains seriously fragmented, despite the election results.” As per usual, the post has generated a lively debate in the comments.
Andrés Duque highlights the career of soap opera diva, Endry Cardeño, noting that she is probably only the second transgender woman to play the role on TV and that “in the United States you still have producers who won`t hire a transgender actor to play the role of a transgender woman in a movie such as Transamerica or HBO's Normal.”
In her new English-language weblog, Morena Writes, Diana Zorrilla Ríos posts a translation of her pre-election update entitled “93 Days Left.”
“In this CSME time. In this time of dancehall self-righteousness versus soca wutlessness. In this time when Trinis don't want to hear about “small islanders” reaching to the Billboard charts with soca music. In this time when Haitians still call out for our help and we still studiously ignore them. . . . It is now more than ever that we need to consider what it means to this generation,” writes Attillah Springer in the latest entry in the “Caribbeanness” debate which was set in motion by a post at Global Voices Americas' editor David Sasaki's blog.
After writing in a comment that he is considering starting a blog about Cuba by someone based in Cuba, Ernesto - a programmer in Havana - has written two excellent summaries of the Cuban blogosphere. Ernesto concludes that most of the blogs were from a February 2005 seminar on blogging and that, “although [the blogosphere is] more active than I thought, especially [since] a year ago, in the end it's disappointing. The Cuban blogosphere has a long way to go.”
What does it mean to be a young Indian immigrant in the US? What does it mean in terms of identity formation? Yesha has some questions and answers.
Stereotypes in travel books do not work well. Mridula picks up a travel book on India that whines at every stage and the author seems to have seen more snake charmers in that short while than Mridula has seen in her whole lifetime in the country.
Nice to note year after year, Bangalore Pride Parade is improving a lot. Hope next year we see some recoreded...
I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...
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Next time we will be there again :)