from african bloggers are highlighting water related issues from the politics in south africa that led to suspension of a water quality expert new devices for collecting and cleaning water to the scramble for fish the east african lake region. cc licenced photo by julien harneis on flickr. we start with south africa where the blog urbansprout highlights the suspension dr. anthon......
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ader aufstieg einer internetlegende vor einem jahr begann ein jemand den koreaner im netz nur als minerva kennen auf daum einem der groaen portale des landes seine analysen zur wirtschaftlichen entwicklung zu veraffentlichen. minerva sagte den zusammenbruch von lehman brothers ebenso voraus wie den scharfen anstieg der wechselkurse und die krise am immobilienm......
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stop hushan dam on problems with the police . neil wade has great photos of skateboarding in taipei . the bushman buys a taiwanese tricycle . ifan at global voices on the taiwanese version of thanksgiving . lao ren cha writes of her own thanksgiving experience and shida cafes . shan ding lu has photos of butterflies . the fareastern sweet potato has some advice for the european chamber o......
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our friends at global voices have put together an extraordinary selection of blog posts on this weeks tragic events in mumbai. as armed terrorists stormed cinema halls hotels hospitals and other public places in the indian city killing 195 and injuring more than 300 bloggers responded with realtime updates from the ground and responses from around the world. read more......
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i dont understand egyptians contradictory views on privatization. on the one hand everybody right fully hates on the governments incompetence. there is no evidence that the bloated civil service can run anything well. on the other hand privatization is widely denounced . so much so that the government has recently looked into bribing the population into suppor......
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taxifahrer aus ganz china streiken seit einem monat. die ersten proteste gab es am 3. november in chongqing dann breiteten sie sich auf hainan gansu yunnan shandong qingdao jinan fujian shantou hubei shaanxi usw. aus. am 1. dezember wird es wahrscheinlich in guangzhou kanton zu einem streik der taxifahrer kommen wo in einem brief zur teilnahme aufgerufen wird. beifeng beri......
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yang jia der am 1. juli 2008 in der polizeistation des shanghaier bezirks zhabei sechs polizisten gettet hat wurde am 26. november 2008 hingerichtet. ein twitteraccount foreveryangjia wurde eingerichtet wo user sich zum tod dieser legendren persnlichkeit uern knnen. der anwalt und blogger liu xiaoyuan der von yangs mutter erfahren hatte dass das hchstgericht die......
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cnn 112808 httpedi tion.cnn.c om2008wo rldasiapc f1127bl oggers.mum baiindex. html their posts express shock numbness a sense of disbelief at the horror unfolding even as they type. a details of the mumbai terror attacks unfolded online as bloggers wrote personal accounts and replied to pleas for help. bloggers have reacted to the multiple terror attacks on mumb......
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to commemorate world aids day rising voices will be hosting a live chat on wednesday december 3rd at 3 p.m. nairobi time which i believe is 1pm nigerian time read more the chat will be facilitated by serina kalande and daudi were and the discussion will build on a similar chat that serina and daudi organized back in april of this year which asked the following question ......
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hilde marie kjersem fantasy im a fan. singing the key to a long life brian eno tells it like it is. why the drudge report is one of the best designed sites on the web true dat. denmark deep linking under fire by newspaper publishers denmark doesnt get it. at all. via astrid meland a few nice photos from where i grew up holeray......
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when news from the developing world dominates the global news agenda we get a lot of traffic on global voices . as the horrific events unfolded in mumbai this past week our authors editors and tech staff began compiling accounts from blogs flickr youtube and twitter feeds. you can get a good overview of the use of social media in reporting the mumbai crisis on our special coverage page wh......
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regions and countries a americas a central asia caucasus a east asia a eastern central europe a middle east north africa a oceania a south asia a subsaharan africa a western europe countries a afghanistan a albania a algeria more from live news......
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rconversat ion s rebecca mckinnon reports on 27 yearold chinese blogger zhou shuguang aka zola. the tagline of his blog says in english you never know what you can do till you try. the chinese authorities have barred zola from leaving the country because he is a potential threat to state security. zola has stirred up controversy by turning him......
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i think everyone knows that whats happening in mumbai is on twitter being updated live. michael arrington of techcrunch wrote about it on wednesday and he has a nice screenshot in the post to show you what it looked like then. flickr and wikipedia also provided frequent updates from the ground. arrington didnt mention global voices which put together a good package on the......
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journalists and nonjournalists are following the thousands of microblogging twitter tweets tagged with mum bai8221 tracking friends facebook statuses dialing into impromptu webcasted radio shows and text messaging updates of the ongoing mumbai attacks. people are sharing and circulating information throughout india and the world via social networking and new media applicati......
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once more we have seen it happen the terrorist attacks in mumbai have demonstrated how amateurs and and social networks are playing an essential role in distributing news in major events.a more and more readers are finding that they get the news faster and sometimes even more accurate on the social networks than from the professional media. should the journalists be worried about this ......
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my friend and colleague evgeny morozov is spending a year as an open society institute fellow working through some of his ideas about cybernationalism and cyberwarfare and organizing events to discuss the future of the internet at osi. i was lucky enough to be included in the first of these events a presentation by columbia university and berkman center researcher john kelly and a panel......
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koinonia . your old keyboard and a shoeshine stand . tujuane transforming from employee to employer . free web based press release center launched in kenya. aids awareness through video. senegal billionaire hopes auto rickshaws can create thousands of jobs . ushahidi featured in forbes magazine nominate peace heroes . gnuveau networks.......
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global voices has has been providing excellent information on the mumbai attacks for all you newsaholics. i noted this recent news from the newspaper guilds own situation as newsrooms shrink across tne country. the 75yearold union is already struggling for the resources it needs to operate. it may lose roughly 200000 this year and that number may grow next year as layoffs continu......
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international sources brooke satchwell angry at government response to mumbai attacks news.com.au actress brooke satchwell and her boyfriend have criticised the australian government for a lack of support for australians caught up in indias terrorist attacks. the couple were in the taj mahal hotel in mumbai when it was stormed by armed islamic read more bhutan82......
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eine andere familie das sind fuer mich menschen am rande der gesellschaft. diese menschen haben vielleicht kein zuhause keine arbeit. sie nehmen vielleicht drogen ihre nachbarn hassen sie und sie werden aus dem theater verbannt weil sie unpassend aussehen. aber in solchen familien regieren immer noch die liebe und die fuersorge . so beschreibt auf russisch irina......
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en momentos criticos como ataques terroristas golpes de estados guerras que los medios no quieren mencionar la informacin que circula en la web en primera persona o contada desde el noticiero de un pais donde si hay libre expresin es algo muy valioso. el hecho de estar enterndonos al instante incluso antes que los medios tradicionales de que hay un atentado o que un avin se cayo es algo ......
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megdabbentett hogy a hazai madia milyen kasassel reagalt az indiai esemanyekre. november 26an este a cnn semmilyen mas tamaval nem foglalkozott. a 125 halottal as rengeteg sebesalttel jara terrortamadas panteken csak valahol a napszabadsag belsejaben kapott helyet as mintha a hazai online madia sem sietett a tudasatasokkal. persze tudom idehaza mindig az az els......
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het is een raar fenomeen mensenmassas die de straat op gaan en openbare gebouwen bezetten omdat ze vinden dat ze teveel macht hebben. het speelt zich dezer dagen af in thailand. duizenden demonstranten van de pad peoples alliance for democracy eisen het aftreden van de regering en afschaffing van het one man one vote systeem omdat kiezers op het platte......
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schreckliche nachrichten von misshandelten gefolterten und getteten kindern erschuetterten in der letzten zeit angola. sie waren der hexerei bezichtigt worden. einer dieser letzten vorflle der ereignete sich in sambizanga einem stadtteil von luanda. wie zeitungen berichten rettete die nationalpolizei dutzende von kindern die in einem raum eingesperrt waren in dem in einem feuer jindungo 4......
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