Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 August 13

13 August 2010

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Stories from 13 August 2010

Colombia: The 53rd Festival of Flowers in Medellín

The 53rd Annual Festival of Flowers recently took place in Medellín, Colombia and was discussed on citizen media, including the topic of the conflict between two local television stations for broadcast rights.

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Video: Music videos under 99 USD

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

In an industry where expenses keep rising, making and promoting a music video can get tough. The 99 Dollar Music Video website gives bands and filmmakers a chance to shine with creative videos, shot in one day, edited in one day and costing no more than 99 US Dollars.

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Nepal: Leadership Vacuum Continues

Written by Bhumika Ghimire · South Asia

More than a month after the resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, the Himalayan country Nepal is still without a leader. Four rounds of elections have failed to produce a clear winner, another round is scheduled for August 18th.

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Africa: It's time for Big Brother Africa All-Stars

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

On July 18, 2010 Big Brother Africa, a television show produced by Endemol, entered its fifth season with Big Brother Africa All-Stars. The show, which has become the most popular TV reality show in Africa, is being taped at the Big Brother House at Sasani Studios in Johannersburg, South Africa and will run for 91 days.

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Philippines: “Jejemon” Translator and the Global Voices Manifesto

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Jejemon is a special combination of internet and mobile phone language which is popularly used by young Filipinos today. Using the Jejemon Translator, let us 'jejemonize' the Global Voices Manifesto.

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China: I am Liu Xianbin

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

Liu Xianbin is 42 years old and has spent almost one third of his life time in jail. He has been under arrest again since June and activists are campaigning for him under the slogan: "I am Lui Xianbin".

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Updates from 13 August 2010

Guyana

“That man is dead and gone, yet he still shape people minds”: Guyana-Gyal remembers what life was like under Forbes Burnham.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Ukraine

A Donetsk businessman posts hidden camera footage of threats and harassment by a competitor, as well as an appeal for help to the Ukrainian president, on YouTube; the video (RUS) has generated over 56,000 views so far. (A detailed Kyiv Post story by Peter Byrne is here (ENG); Vadim Isakov's GV translation on a similar case in Russia is here.)

• Veronica Khokhlova

Saint Lucia

The Caribbean Review of Books acknowledges the passing of “Marie Selipha ‘Sesenne' Descartes, St Lucian folk singer and ‘queen of folk culture'.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

“Yuh want ah mango? Dance de shango”: Simply Trini Cooking recalls “a little piece of mouthwatering bliss from [her] childhood…sweet red mango.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Cuba

“Fidel Castro’s return to public life after a four-year absence provokes conflicting emotions here”: Generation Y and Havana Times blog about his reappearance.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Cuba

Cuban bloggers discuss the harassment of Reina Luisa Tamayo, as she makes attempts to organise commemoration marches to the grave of her son, political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bangladesh

Ahamed Bauani is concerned that the two International Internet Gateways (IIGW) operational in Bangladesh do not support IPv6 and “do not have any plan to do so”. The blogger advocates for creating a group to pressurize the government to take step to connect Bangladesh with IPv6 network via IIGW.

• Rezwan