Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world. Learn why »
Global Voices remains my first resource to understand little known lands.
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.
Buy your copy through this link and support Global Voices! »
Larry Smith at the Bahama Pundit blog reports that a fake web site has been set up to divert users away from Bahama Pundit and the articles published there about the Rum Cay development. “It appears that some people think these comments, and later information posted by me, are impacting their efforts to sell Bahamian land of questionable title to unsuspecting buyers over the Internet. There are any number of web sites out there purporting to sell beachfront lots on Rum Cay. And this is despite the fact that the various speculators on the island are feuding among each other over who owns what.”
VivirLatino describes the spectacle surrounding a comment by Italian pop star Tizziano Ferro who accused Mexican women of being mustachioed. Carlos Bravo, with some photoshopping ingenuity, says it's going to take a lot more than an apology to win back any fans in Mexico.
ArmYouth Blog writes that there are lessons in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict for resolving the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh.
Luke Distelhorst reports that Mongolia has possibly identified its 22nd case of HIV infection and says that widespread testing is needed in the country to determine how widespread the disease is.
The LiveJournal community has Астана и Мы (Astana & We) photos of the fire in Kazakhstan's tallest building, which was known by its nickname, “the lighter,” the name it received because of its shape. (Russian)
Onnik Krikorian has photos of International Children's Day celebrations at Yerevan's Liberty Square and of the free concert of Armenian Navy Band to end the day.
Does a section of the Media find the middle class in India an easy punching bag? Confused responds to a scathing attack on the middle class with a cogent analysis of where the Middle Class stands, and who has benefited from various programmes of the government.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
This site is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Please read our attribution policy to learn about freely redistributing our work.
Based on the Wikipedia list of countries, details.
I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...