6 April 2007
Stories from 6 April 2007
India and its various avatars
India: there are many facets to the country, and in this post we present a slice of how India is perceived by different people. Each writer is looking at India...
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India: there are many facets to the country, and in this post we present a slice of how India is perceived by different people. Each writer is looking at India...
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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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The evaluation committee on public broadcast recently suggested to form a new Public Broadcast Service body in Hong Kong rather than reforming the present Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK). Lee Yui-Wah starts a blog for saving this media institute which has been critical towards Hong Kong government policy (even though it is a governmental organization).
waxspell considers movies such as Hotel Rwanda and The Last King of Scotland a form of exploitation: It is a dismay to see how these money hungry opportunists take advantage of our painful history and make it their gain! How dare we celebrate such insensitivity without questioning it? Can we (Africa and all those who condemn such) do something to prevent folks form demeaning history.
UDPS Liège is disappointed [Fr] that local elections in the DRC have been postponed to 2008. The blog regrets that they did not take place before presidential ones as was apparently discussed in international community negotiations in South Africa.
Stefanella's Drive Thru shows us strange footage of animal kingdom domestic violence at an Israeli zoo.
Syrian blogger Tajreed talks about the changes in people with the upcoming parliamentary elections: “And last thing I want to talk about are the prospects of change I notice that there is an interest in the parliamentary elections this year and while I haven't voted in previous elections I see a good number of people are getting their electoral cards and looking forward to casting their votes on the day of the elections and the ministry of interior is doing a good job in my opinion in educating people and giving them information about the elections”
Rebellious Arab Girl deals with the frustration of her mother wanting to find her a husband….on the internet.
PeaceCorp blogger 32n5w describes being mistaken for a Somali in Morocco.
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 :)