2 January 2008

Stories from 2 January 2008

Zimbabwe: Nova Mambone, Buzi and Machanga under water

  2 January 2008

Moçambique para Todos [pt] reports on the heavy seasonal rains that have flooded Zimbabwe. “Particularly, Machanga and Búzi have no communication with the rest of the country and the people are in refugee centres organized in schools and churches. It is estimated that 42,690 people are at risk in the...

Last Café com Blogs in 2007

  2 January 2008

Kontratempos [pt] lets us know that the last edition of podcast Café com Blogs is now available. In this issue, a balance of the year, with facts, controversies and people that shook the blogosphere in 2007.

Brazil: On the polemic campaign against AIDS

  2 January 2008

Alda Inacio [pt] on the withdrawal of an European campaign against AIDS showing two men having sex, on the grounds that the images were too explicit. “I believe that this disease does not belong to any class and this unfashionable mentality should have been abolished by those who made these...

Philippines: Bloggers look back to 2007

  2 January 2008

Bloggers in Philippines reflects on the past year and talk about the things they blogged about across a range of subjects from sports to politics, music, blogging and life in general.

Brazil: Milton Ribeiro on the blogosphere

  2 January 2008

Milton Ribeiro [pt] publishes an interview that Luís Carmelo [pt] made with him back in 2006 about the blogosphere. “On the Internet, any individual who wants to exercise their freedom of speech will find another individual exercising their freedom of information. This is freedom. This is democracy. This is a...

25 years of the Internet

  2 January 2008

In January 1st 1983, 25 years ago, the Internet was officially defined as a network using TCP/IP. André Lemos [pt] publishes links to the piece of news and comments on the many changes the Internet has undergone, from ftp to Web 2.0. “May the web carry on being impartial and...

Pakistan: Why mourn for Bhutto?

  2 January 2008

Despite all the grief surrounding Bhutto's death, a post on Pakistan Paindabad reminds us that all was not wonderful.”But why be so sad? Stuff happens. Leaders die. Followers fight. Nations live on. And Benazir was no Jinnah.”

Kenya: Do not doubt the power of the Internet in Africa

  2 January 2008

Has technology, particularly citizen media, played any positive role in covering the the crisis in Kenya? This is what White African wrote about the role of technology in the crisis: If anyone doubts the power of the internet in Africa, they need to look no further than what is happening...