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December, 2004


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December 27th, 2004

GV Covenant: Spanish version

A small portrait of the translator jonl · 14:54 · About GVO
The Global Voices covenant in Spanish, thanks to Ricardo Bello: Creemos en la libertad de expresión: en proteger el derecho a hablar – y el derecho a escuchar. Creemos en el acceso universal a las herramientas de expresión. Con ese fin, queremos empoderar a todos los que deseen expresarse para que tengas ... 1 comment  · read »

December 10th, 2004

Academic paper on Persian blogging

A small portrait of the translator Hossein Derakhshan · 15:04 · Iran
Alireza Doostdar, an Iranian Harvard gruadute student, has published his interesting paper in American Anthropologist, entitled " “The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging”: On Language, Culture, and Power in Persian Weblogestan." It's one of the few academic papers on blogs in Iran. 1 comment  · read »

December 8th, 2004

Ory on Kenyan blogs

A small portrait of the translator Rebecca MacKinnon · 22:44 · Kenya
Ory Okolloh has written a briefing paper on Kenyan blogs as part of the I&S conference materials here (PDF file). She says that blogging has been a life-changing experience for her, and presents the results of interviews with three other Kenyan bloggers. In the concluding section of her paper ... 0 comments  · read »

Rashmi Sinha: some thoughts and introduction

A small portrait of the translator Rashmi Sinha · 14:04 · South Asia
Among other issues, I am interested in understanding how to support real dialog - not just people talking, but also listening to each other. Current tools support self-expression quite well. They could be better at supporting dialog. What I worry about is that we will have more and more ... 3 comments  · read »
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