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Images from Argentina: Perito Moreno GlacierPhotos post

A small portrait of the translator David Sasaki · 19:03 · Americas

perito moreno glacier

“Glacier Perito Moreno with Mountain, Argentina” by Tyuzo.

Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier has been in the international news lately as it takes stage during the unfolding drama that is global warming. Ironically, Perito Moreno is one of only three Patagonian glaciers not retreating due to warming temperatures. In fact, its advancement is causing mammoth walls of ice to break off almost daily. Or, as Maciej Ceglowski poetically puts it:

In a world of sissy nature that requires protection, handholding, wilderness reserves, careful study and constant medical attention, the Perito Moreno glacier is a refreshing throwback. This glacier wants you dead. It wants to come out and crush you under billions of tons of ice, carve its name into your face, and maraud out into the plains of Patagonia until it reaches the sea. You don't have to go into the mountains looking for the Perito Moreno - it's coming out of the mountains to look for you. It wants to come over there and mess you up good.

Describing the breaking off of ice, Ceglowski continues with perfect prose accompanied by phenomenal photography:

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The blogosphere responds to Jamaica's first woman Prime Minister

Georgia Popplewell · 18:19 · Americas

Portia-Simpson-Miller-m On March 30, Jamaica's first (and the anglophone Caribbean's second the anglophone Caribbean's third, after Dominica's Eugenia Charles and Bermuda's Jennifer Smith) female Prime Minister was sworn into office. Portia Simpson-Miller is a long-standing member of Jamaica's ruling People's National Party (PNP) who won the party's internal vote to elect a successor to retiring Prime Minister P. J. Patterson.

“Sister P. is the New PNP Leader”, was the title of one of Scratchie's blog posts shortly after the election, and in early March eon posted a photo and two carefully chosen sentences: “portia will have Jamaica and the world’s attention as no other. much depends on what she does with it.”

Francis Wade, weighing in on March 11, echoed the bio published in the Jamaica Observer, which stated that Simpson-Miller “has consistently topped opinion polls as Jamaica's most beloved political personality for many years, but has had to beat back detractors inside and outside her party who claim she lacks the requisite intellectual and social credits to lead the country.” According to Francis:
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Many to Many documentary featuring Global Voices

A small portrait of the translator Ethan Zuckerman · 17:17 · About GVO , GV05 Summit

Martin Lucas and the Center for Social Media have produced an excellent short documentary, titled “Many to Many - Public Media and the Blogosphere”. The twelve minute film provides an introduction to new efforts that are combining blogging with traditional media. Global Voices is featured alongside exciting efforts like Chris Lydon's Radio Open Source and PBS's POV Borders.

Our South Asia editor Neha Viswanathan and contributor Dina Mehta are featured, talking about their work on the Southeast Asia Tsunami Help blog, and the video captures some of the spirit and excitement of our December conference in London.

For anyone interested in how media thinkers are viewing our efforts, it's worth reading reports from Noëlle McAfee and Martin Lewis offer their views as media analysts of our December conference and the possible role of Global Voices in the larger world of media and journalism.

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