Global Voices · Citizen media stories from January 2010

January, 2010

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Stories from January, 2010

9 January 2010

Slovakia: First Slovak Terrorist Caught in Ireland, Sort Of

Written by Tibor Blazko · Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe

Tibor Blazko translates Slovak netizens' caustic remarks about the botched security test on a plane to Dublin.

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8 January 2010

Dominican Republic: The Passing of the Multi-Talented Luisito Martí

Written by Rocio Diaz · Latin America

The multi-talented Dominican artist Luisito Martí passed away on January 3 leaving behind a huge international following who were fans of his comedy, music, and way of capturing the country's idiosyncrasies.

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Australia: Whaling War of Words

Written by Kevin Rennie · East Asia, Oceania

The whale hunt seems to be the forgotten war in the public relations hype that surrounds the collision of the Sea Shepherd’s Ady Gil with a Japanese whaler in the Southern Ocean. GV author Kevin Rennie gathers blog reactions from Australia

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Egypt: Naga Hammady Massacre

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

Egyptian bloggers express shock and rage at the killing of Coptic Christians on the eve of their Christmas celebrations in Naga Hammady, in Upper Egypt. An unknown criminal opened his fire randomly on people there after they finished their prayers and were on their way back to their homes.

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Oman: Diet, Podcast, and the Higher Educational System

Written by Riyadh Al Balushi · Middle East & North Africa

Omani bloggers are back in the blogging scene as they start the new year with big resolutions and plans, writes Riyadh Al Balushi.

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Argentina: Romantic Singing Legend Sandro Passes Away

Written by Jorge Gobbi · Latin America

Roberto Sánchez, popularly known as Sandro, died on January 4th in Mendoza, Argentina. He was one of the pioneers of Argentinean rock music and became famous all over Latin America as a romantic music artist.

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Updates from January, 2010

18 January 2010

United Kingdom

Sharpe's Opinion reacts sarcastically to the news of the first arrest in the United Kingdom over a Twitter joke: “Round of applause of the police there. Keeping us safe from those dangerous terrorists who go round advertising their intentions on public social networking websites.”

• Paula Góes

Armenia

Unzippedblog tweets that the Armenian prime minister, Tigran Sargsyan, has set up his own blog [AM].

• Onnik Krikorian

Kenya

Brenda writes about free Kiswahili synthetic voice for Freedom Fone, a project of Kubatana in Zimbabwe: “In recognition of the competitive mobile phone tariffs prevailing in east Africa and the willingness of organisations there to experiment with information on demand voice services, we will create our first localisation of the Freedom Fone GUI for Kiswahili in February 2010.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Japan

In a post titled ‘Media Shifts Make Japan A Harder Read‘, the Shisaku blog describes the changes in the way major news outlets have been reporting news since the establishment of the new administration and why “the world is relying more and more on unfiltered retransmission what Japanese media outlets are producing”.

• Tomomi Sasaki