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8 August 2007

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Stories from 8 August 2007

Syria: Change in Syria

Written by Yazan Badran · Middle East & North Africa

This month's topic on Creative Syria's Blogger Forum was titled, "If you had the choice what would you change in Syria?"... The views ranged from those that advocated the political reform as base, to those that saw that social reform should be the kickstart.

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Kannada: Telling Stories is a Good Deed!

Written by Sanket Patil · South Asia

Some movie makers capture the imagination of serious movie watchers all over: Kurosawa, Ray and Bergman, for example. And when someone of that stature dies, you are bound to get...

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Brazil: The philosopher, the media, and the blogs

Written by Jose Murilo · Latin America

The influence of the Internet in Brazil is gathering momentum. In a country where open TV networks owned by politicians widely ruled the media environment for the last 30 years,...

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Amid Controversy, YouTube Launches in Japan

Written by Chris Salzberg · East Asia

Late last week, Google announced that it was teaming up with six Japanese firms, including SkyPerfecTV and Mixi, creator of Japan’s most popular social networking software, to link content to a new YouTube website exclusively in Japanese in order to boost the company’s presence in Japan. A blogger who was at the meeting where the announcement was made describes his thoughts on the future of YouTube in Japan.

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Updates from 8 August 2007

Japan

Hasan at hasanhujairi[dot]com writes about a street artist who draws calligraphy on the sidewalk in Harajuku, Tokyo. Hasan writes: “I couldn’t help but take in the site of him with an after-taste of envy; something about being a street artist always seemed radically magical to me.”

• Chris Salzberg

Iran

Hanif,journalist and blogger, shares[Fa] his feeling about “the Journalist Day” in Iran. The blogger says “it is my day.It is your day,my colleague.Today we are sad because we do not have freedom and we miss the paper of journals.”

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

According to [Fa]Varesh,several student activists are out of jail now.The blogger reminds us that there are still,at least, two student activists in jail.

• Fred Petrossian

Iraq

Libyan Tasnim tallies up the psychological price of the war in Iraq in this post.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Bosnia Herzegovina

Srebrenica Genocide Blog asks readers “to send their words of encouragement” to a Serbian human rights activist facing a ten-day imprisonment: “'It is unacceptable that Maja Stojanovic should end up behind bars for a publicly stated view that Mladic must be sent to The Hague and for reminding the public of the Srebrenica genocide,' said Andrej Nosov, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights president.”

• Veronica Khokhlova