Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 March 06

6 March 2008

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Stories from 6 March 2008

Iran: Students protest against “gender apartheid”

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Hundreds of students continued a protest at Shiraz University against “gender apartheid” on Tuesday 4th of March. The students want their university to put an end to a policy that...

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Kazkahstan: State's Ineffectivess and Expansion

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

While the government continues to take steps towards expansion into most lucrative and strategic sectors of national economy, simulaneously undergoing an administrative self-restructurization, Kazakhstani bloggers discuss effectiveness of the state...

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China: Life Stream and Privacy

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

Zhanbin points our that life stream applications, such as Friend feed has turned us into voyeurism and exposure addicts [zh]; and the notion of privacy is under challenged.

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Japan: Mixi in hot water over terms of use revision

Written by Chris Salzberg · East Asia

Japan's hugely popular social networking site Mixi is in hot water this week after news that a proposed revision to its Terms of Use, to become effective as of April 1st, will force its users to agree to grant Mixi no-royalty, non-exclusive rights over all content published on the site, retroactively applicable to all content uploaded before the changes to the ToU. Bloggers in Japan responded with concern and outrage.

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Africa: Vloggers, Bloggers and Movies

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Sub-Saharan Africa

A few glimpses of Africa through citizen media videos. From BoB winners, to storytellers, documentaries on artists, Nigeria´s Nollywood movie industry and more.

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Updates from 6 March 2008

Bulgaria

The Balkan Yankee - a Bulgaria-based American - writes that “targeted advertising [is] not so targeted on Facebook.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Macedonia

Balkan Baby writes about the the conflict between Greece and the neighboring country known as “Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, New Macedonia, Upper Macedonia, Slavo-Macedonia, Nova Makedonija, Macedonia (Skopje), Vardar Republic, FYROM, Republika Makedonija–Skopje, Republika Makedonia or Republic of Skopje.” (Also, there's a lively discussion taking place now in the comments section to an earlier Global Voices entry on the Greece-FYROM name conflict.)

• Veronica Khokhlova

Colombia

“In case you haven’t noticed, a few of our neighbours are making noises that sound very much like war”: Barbados Free Press wonders whether the Venezuela/Ecuador/Colombia issue will have an impact on Barbados.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bermuda

“Bermuda’s criminal recidivism rate is now 78%. In other words, 78% of prisoners who complete their sentence will reoffend and serve more jail time”: Vexed Bermoothes blogs about “dehabilitation”.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Japan

Well-known Japanese web visionary Umeda Mochio, blogging at My Life Between Silicon Valley and Japan, reflects on his life over the past 20 years [ja] since the time in 1988 when he first joined the world of IT consulting. In the past few years, his most recent books such as Theory of Web Evolution and Five Propositions for the Web Era have sold a total of more than 700,000 copies, drawing more readers to his ideas than he ever expected.

• Chris Salzberg

Armenia

Registan has posted an entry on the post-election situation in Armenia. The pioneering blog on Central Asia also touches upon the recent clashes on the front line between Armenia and Azerbaijan and appears to conclude that the overall situation is unpredictable.

• Onnik Krikorian

Azerbaijan

With presidential elections in neighboring Georgia and Armenia having been shrouded in some controversy, Asking Tough Questions in Tough Places turns its attention to Azerbaijan which goes to the polls in October. The blog says that Azerbaijan will be sparing no efforts to convince the international community that the vote will be democratic and lawful, but says that for election watchers it's all likely to be a lost cause.

• Onnik Krikorian