Global Voices · Citizen media stories from July 2010

July, 2010

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Stories from July, 2010

20 July 2010

Palestine: A Green Home Away from Home

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

In this post we hear about two women with a great love of nature: a nun who has found her home in the convent garden, and a city-dwelling mother who has brought her dreams of a village garden to the balcony of her apartment.

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Jordan: Has Technology Killed Our Romanticism?

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Computers and technology play an important role in our everyday lives. One blogger from Jordan remembers the romanticism of getting a letter in the mail and declares on her blog: "I hate electronics."

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Zambia: Meet Zambian Citizen Broadcasters

Written by Gershom Ndhlovu · Sub-Saharan Africa

The media in Zambia is being turned on its head as bloggers and citizen broadcasters enter the media space. Independent news websites and blogs by Zambians are springing up all the time. In this post by our new Zambian author, Gershom Ndhlovu, you will meet three Zambian citizen broadcasters who run regular shows online using BlogTalkRadio (BTR) technology.

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Lebanon: The Rule of Dinosaurs

Written by Layal Al Khatib · Middle East & North Africa

Shortly after the recent cyber censorship incidents in Lebanon, the term "The Rule of Dinosaurs" started to be used by the e-activists in their campaign against this invasion of their cyberspace. Lebanese blogger Tony explains what it means.

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Slovakia: Hungarian School Trips

Written by Tibor Blazko · Eastern & Central Europe

Tibor Blazko compiles Slovak netizens' reactions to a new Hungarian law that would bring Hungarian schoolchildren to parts of the neighboring countries that in the past belonged to Hungary.

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Australians Want More Than Election Slogans

Written by Kevin Rennie · Oceania

Just twenty-three days after deposing Kevin Rudd, Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called a general election for 21 August. The Oz blogosphere is looking for substance not just spin in this campaign.

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Updates from July, 2010

28 July 2010

Russia

Komsomolosk-on-Amur [ENG] city court, at the Russian Far East, ordered local Internet provider “Rosnet” to block access to Youtube and four other websites (including web.archive.org), Cnews reported [RUS]. The decision was made due to a request by the city prosecutor's office. YouTube had been blocked because of the nationalist movie “Russia for Russians”. Other websites were blocked because of hosting an electronic version of Hitler's “Main Kampf.”

• Gregory Asmolov

China

In the latest Karate Kid movie, does Will Smith's kid kick Chinese butt or is he actually the one getting bullied? That depends where you watch it, writes the Shandongxifu blogger.

• John Kennedy

China

With an incident-free Invincible Spirit wrapping up today, don't miss this post from Sinologistical Violoncellist's Adam Cathcart looking at some of the dynamics in the relationship between China and North Korea.

• John Kennedy

China

A ruptured gas main is the reported cause of an explosion [zh] this morning at a plastics factory currently being torn down in NE Nanjing. Injuries are reportedly in the hundreds, while the number of deaths has yet to be confirmed. Free More News has been aggregating links to photos [here also] and video from the scene. Provincial officials have been filmed trying to obstruct news cameras.