13 March 2008
Stories from 13 March 2008
Announcing the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008
Join us in Budapest, Hungary on June 27-28 for the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008! Supported by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and MediaHungaria, this year's event will bring together the members of the Global Voices citizen media project and its wider community with a diverse group of bloggers, activists, technologists, journalists and others persons from around the world. Read on for more information about our exciting program of public discussions and workshops around the theme “Citizen Media & Citizenhood”.
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Kuwait: Towers Mark 29th Birthday
The Kuwait Towers, the country's major landmark, marked their 29th birthday without much fanfare. But one blogger did not forget the occasion, writes Abdullatif Al Omar who also takes us to a bloggers meeting, updates us on the olive crisis and shares with us the scene at the cinemas.
Bahrain: Frustrated Fayrouz fans
This year's Spring of Culture, the biggest arts festival in Bahrain, has just started. Bloggers have got plenty to say about it – especially about the star attraction, Lebanese singer Fayrouz; tickets for her concert sold out almost immediately, and many are now being resold on the black market for highly inflated prices, writes Ayesha Saldanha.
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China: Whose Congress?
"I come to understand ---- when a worker from the bottom of the society presents himself before the public as a delegate, he will involuntarily turn into a decoration instead of a grassroot as he used to be. If such political shows continue, then even if all the delegates were commons, it could do no help." -----Whose congress is People's Congress of China?
Next time we will be there again :)