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The Egyptian football team beat Ghana in the African Cup of Nations' final match, and achieved its third consecutive championship. This is also Egypt's seventh championship since the launch of the tournament in the 50's. Bloggers join the rest of the country in celebrating the achievement.
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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
CINA collects local news report on the gentrification pressure in Seoul city on Little Manila, the marketplace for domestic migrants.
Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines comments on the continuing construction boom in Baku, Azerbaijan. The blog says that new urban development in the city is haphazard and is starting to adversely affect the old part of the city, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
A list of links to Russian human rights activists' blogs (RUS) - at Human Rights in Russia (hro.org).
LJ user burtin posts this comment (RUS) about Avatar: “Interesting that people cry [as they watch] Avatar - while reports from Chechnya and Ingushetia leave them totally indifferent. Even though archetypally the same is happening there - only the people are real, not [computer-generated]. […] If this were happening in the Soviet times, the film would've been banned because it resembles reality. And now this isn't necessary - reality is of no interest whatsoever. […]”
“Will the World Bank indirectly support web censorship in Sri Lanka?” asks Sanjana Hattotuwa at ICT For Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) blog.
Jehan Ara, a Pakistani entrepreneur and blogger who writes at In The Line Of Wire, is visiting Mumbai and shares her reactions.
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I think the reason it stuck with me is that I was fired from my first real job--teaching at a...