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November, 2010

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Stories from November, 2010

11 November 2010

Panama: November, A Month of National Celebration

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November is a month of national celebration for Panamanians, and the blogosphere provides another platform to celebrate. A trip around the web shows that in these days, with diversity of styles and concerns, Panamanians not only think about their history, but also about the present, the nation as a project and how to build a better country.

Hillary Clinton Gets Aussie Salute

When Hillary Clinton arrived in Australia last week, she was welcomed by Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on twitter: RT @KRuddMP: Welcomed Hillary to Oz at Melbourne...

10 November 2010

Video posts
Video: It Gets Better for Queer Youth

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The It Gets Better Project was started by Dan Savage as a way of preventing gay teens from committing suicide through videos explaining what gay adult life could be: lots better. And from different corners of the world, other people are also sharing their stories.

MalawiSoc: Tracking Malawian blogs and news

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Clement Nthambazale Nyirenda is a final year PhD student in the Hirota/Sakurai Lab in the Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology and a lecturer, researcher and consultant in Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Malawi Polytechnic.He is the founder of MalawiSoc, a social bookmarking site devoted to news and blogs about Malawi.

Serbia: Netizens and Media Report on the Kraljevo Earthquake

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Sasa Milosevic reports on the online and citizen media coverage of the earthquake that hit Serbia last week.

China: 360 VS. QQ: What about privacy and user rights?

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A commercial spat between instant messaging applications Tencent QQ and Qihoo 360 has affected million of users. Although QQ still monopolizes the market, public opinion shows that Chinese Internet users are on the side of Qihoo and are becoming increasingly aware of the averse effects of Tencent's monopoly, and the significance of protecting Internet users' privacy and rights.

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