Global Voices

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The world is talking, are you listening?

China

Williamlong has an initial analysis (zh) on baidu space. There are several inadequacies as blog platform, including 1. its encoding system is not UTF-8; 2. very long url; 3. cannot export blog content; 4. uploaded pictures cannot be shared by other websites; etc.

China

Ma-yue talks about his experience in visa application to other countries (zh) . He complains that although China is blooming in economic development and considered as a big nation, however, its passport is less useful than many other small countries.

China

ESWN puts together forum posts and news concerning how a woman reporter Cao Aiwen put her work aside and tried to rescue a drowned girl. She was then crowned by netizen the most beautiful female reporter in China.

China

Glutter puts up the news concerning China government sentenced reporter Li Yuanlong to two years in jail earlier last week (July 13). ESWN translates an article “On Becoming an American Citizen in Spirit” written by Li so that westerners can make their own judgement whether his article is “inciting subversion”.

China

The Voyager discusses a news headline in a Hong Kong newspapers: Cutter Youth: No Regrets For Anti-Japanese / Nine Intimidation Letters; Fanatically Patriotic Heart. The news is about a youth threatened Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe with death if he visited the Yasukuni Shrine. The writer then comments that “now Beijing must accept that Hong Kong people are patriotic enough to have democracy.”

South Korea

Micheal Hurt in Scribbings of metropolitician talks about the growth in anti-American and nationalistic sentiment in South Korea in both soccer and anti-FTA.

Japan

Ohmynews' international citizen reporters' reports on Ohmynews conference July 12-14. Gregory Daigle reports on Citizen Participation and Technology; Alexander Krabbe writes on Where Do You Head, Citizen Journalism?; Ronda Hauben on Exporting citizen journalism; David Michael Weber reports on Ohmynews Japan ready to launch; Roberto Spiezio on Bridging the digial divide; Perrier Joo writes about Worldwide initiatives make citizen journalism a reality; and Michael Lomas on Citizen reporters praise Ohmynews forum.

Readers can also read the report in parallel to Ethan Zuckerman's series of forum notes in My heart's in Accra.