16 August 2007
Stories from 16 August 2007
Japan: Living With the Heat
As Japan suffers through what likely will become its hottest summer on record, with temperatures topping 40 degrees in some places and humidity at all-time highs, and even as business owners happily celebrate skyrocketing sales of air conditioners, fans, and ice cream, worries of an energy crisis loom on the horizon. In the middle of the scorching heat, one blogger has responded by taking matters into his own hands and doing the unthinkable: he turned off the air conditioning.
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From Nasser to Mubarak and On, the State of Modern Egypt.
The face of Egypt has changed greatly after the revolution that brought independence from foreign occupiers. From the Egypt created by Nasser to the Egypt to be inherited by Gamal Mubarak, the Egyptian Blogosphere is recalling their personal expieriences, objections, predictions and experiences with blogger imprisonment.
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Brazil: Ad campaign compares bloggers with monkeys
A traditional Brazilian newspaper launched an advertising campaign to promote its new website, and the core message of all video and visual pieces was based on a humorous approach of blogs as bad sources of information. One video piece went far enough as comparing bloggers with monkeys. As expected, the local blogosphere took it personally.
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Next time we will be there again :)