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<title><![CDATA[Back from Budapest...long flight]]></title>
<link>http://leonardchien.wordpress.com/?p=6</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>leonardchien</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long flight from Budapest to Taiwan. My itinerary WAS Budapest - Amsterdam - Hong ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It's been a long flight from Budapest to Taiwan. My itinerary <strong>WAS</strong> Budapest - Amsterdam - Hong Kong - Taiwan, but in the end, it is a totally different story...</p>
<p>It's a story marked with the keyword "delay".</p>
<p>Portnoy and I went to Budapest airport on time and found out MALEV (Hungarian Airlines) flight was late <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">as always</span>. On MALEV website, it <a href="http://www.malev.hu/DEX/DEX/I_NEWS_DEX/2008-0505-1619-27VVJL.asp" target="_blank">writes</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Malév aircraft flying short- and medium-haul routes have the best on-time arrival performance, the first 2008 quarterly report of the Association of European Airlines (AEA) shows.</p></blockquote>
<p>But I don't know why my flights with MALEV are both late for at least 40 minutes. It must be something wrong, either I am unlucky, or this report is @#@##.</p>
<p>Anyway, I rushed to the other gate as soon as I arrived in Amsterdam, as Schiphol Airport is HUGE. I didn't get on the plane. It's not because I missed the flight. I just couldn't get on the plane. Originally I thought it was a computer problem, since my name was spelled wrong in Budapest. After asking for a reason, however, the KLM flight attendant told me many airlines oversell tickets because some people never showed up. Sometimes, however, when everyone shows up, they will ask some customers "who are willing to" accept another flight and some compensations. (Hello? I didn't say I am willing to. You only told me I couldn't get on the plane!) She seemed to be so familiar with the whole apology and compensation process that it made me believe these kinds of things happen all the time.</p>
<p>That's why my flight was changed from 3:30pm to 8:45pm, which was later delayed to 9:40pm, to tell the truth. I stayed in Amsterdam airport for more than 6.5 hours instead of 1.5 hours.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="delay" href="http://leonardchien.wordpress.com/photos/70217866@N00/2633327953/"><img class="pc_img" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3039/2633327953_0edf3e0706_m.jpg" alt="delay" width="240" height="168" /></a></p>
<p>By the way, I didn't transfer in Hong Kong, but in <strong>Bangkok</strong> on my way back to Taiwan. Of course, my flight to Bangkok was late again back to Taiwan (why am I not surprised?), and that's why I arrived at 6:45pm, not 11:45am in Taipei.</p>
<p>I know some GVers are still travelling around the world, such as Luis Carlos, Hana, Preetam, etc. Hope you all have the best travel karma on your way back to home.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Just say hi.]]></title>
<link>http://leonardchien.wordpress.com/?p=3</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>leonardchien</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[After talking with my friend Jason and attending Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 in Budapes]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After talking with my friend Jason and attending <a title="GV Summit" href="http://summit08.globalvoicesonline.org/" target="_blank">Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008</a> in Budapest, I have been thinking about creating a new blog in English. Actually I have been urged to do that several times before, but because of laziness, it has never been realized.</p>
<p>Now I think it is the time for me to get connected with my friends around the world. The number has been growing, especially in the past year. It would be a pity if I lose these precious connections. Blogging in Chinese, they will almost never get a chance to know more about my life, which may been interesting to them.</p>
<p>I think in the next couple of days, I'll start from my trip and experience in Budapest, Hungary. Something is appearing in my mind. I should record it by words before it is forgotten in my daily trivial nonsenses.</p>
<p>Anyway, just say hi to the world. I am back from the world.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Global Voices Online Summit in Budapest]]></title>
<link>http://lemarietta.wordpress.com/?p=10</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lemarietta</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Before I used this blog for collecting my articles appeared in Hungarian newspapers. But last weeken]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before I used this blog for collecting my articles appeared in Hungarian newspapers. But last weekend I had a so strong experience of what is a blog can be used for, that I decided to write normal posts in English.</p>
<p>I also have to confess that I promised to Daudi from Kenya that I will start to write a blog when we met the Global Voices Online Summit's members at Corvintető which is an open-air club in Budapest.</p>
<p>Today was released my report about the summit in Népszabadság which is now Hungary's biggest newspaper - among the political (I mean not yellow press) newspapers.</p>
<p>I will translate my article next, but here's the link: <a href="http://nol.hu/cikk/497406/">http://nol.hu/cikk/497406/</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[MIRA COMO ME CORRE LA BABA]]></title>
<link>http://juanguillermotejeda.wordpress.com/?p=1010</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jgtejeda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://juanguillermotejeda.wordpress.com/?p=1010</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
aquí&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;  Global Voices se ocupa del tráfico de informaci]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://juanguillermotejeda.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/bacchus_aachen.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1011" src="http://juanguillermotejeda.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/bacchus_aachen.jpg?w=208" alt="" width="208" height="300" /></a><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/Internet/derribar/censura/elpeputec/20080628elpeputec_2/Tes"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/Internet/derribar/censura/elpeputec/20080628elpeputec_2/Tes">aquí&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;  Global Voices </a>se ocupa del tráfico de información que a través de internet viene de aquellos países donde pensar es un pecado y decir lo que se piensa un delito. En Chile hay muchos ámbitos dentro de los cuales decir lo que se piensa es, no un delito, pero sí un mal antecedente. El país es sólidamente bipartidista y monomediático: ante el espectáculo de lo que no encaja ni se explica con los modestos recursos del pensamiento dominante, mejor callar y mirar para otro lado. Mira como me corre la baba. Mira como no me fijo en tus villanías. Blogs y sitios web, sin embargo, filtran porosamente a través del planeta el sentir diverso de las personas.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Movimiento anti censura]]></title>
<link>http://diariodehoy.wordpress.com/?p=255</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>diariodehoy</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[¿Cómo trabajar juntos para construir un movimiento anti censura global?
Este es el asunto central ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>¿Cómo trabajar juntos para construir un movimiento anti censura global?</h4>
<h4>Este es el asunto central del encuentro de blogueros, periodistas y activistas online <a href="http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices Advocacy</a> que se está celebrando este fin de semana en Budapest.</h4>
<h4>El objetivo de esta red es defender la libertad de expresión y el derecho a la información de los ciudadanos de muchos países donde estos derechos son vulnerados.</h4>
<h4>Las herramientas tecnológicas, como la publicación de blogs, por ejemplo, están posibilitando burlar la censura aunque en demasiadas ocasiones con un elevado riesgo para la integridad personal de los informadores, <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/Internet/derribar/censura/elpeputec/20080628elpeputec_2/Tes">como relata  Rosa Jiménez Cano</a>. También <a href="http://www.rosajc.com/2008/06/28/la-web-20-llega-a-todos/">desde su blog</a>.</h4>
<h4>De su crónica para El País resalta la cita de Andrew Heavens: "La censura no es no poder decir cosas, sino vivir amenazado, con miedo y sin poder hacer lo que deseas, es desmoralizarte hasta hacerte perder la ilusión".</h4>
<h4>Los blogueros no son periodistas pero se les trata <a href="http://diariodehoy.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/como-informadores-incomodos/">como a informadores molestos</a>. ¿Por qué? Porque en muchas ocasiones consiguen hacer lo que no pueden los medios de información tradicionales: informar de los problemas que afectan cotidianamente a sus conciudadanos. Estos, probablemente, no tengan ni la remota posibilidad de acceder a internet o incluso a la escuela, pero  de esta manera tienen a alguien dándoles voz permanentemente. Una voz dirigida a nuestra conciencia.</h4>
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<title><![CDATA[Global Voices Summit - day II]]></title>
<link>http://mirelarus.wordpress.com/?p=484</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mirela</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mirelarus.wordpress.com/?p=484</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(daca cititi postul asta sambata dimineata, dati refresh din cand in cand - ca tot adaug cate ceva; ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>(daca cititi postul asta sambata dimineata, dati refresh din cand in cand - ca tot adaug cate ceva; stiu ca nu e calitate buna la imaginea din clipurile pe care le postez...dar considerati-le clipuri audio :) )</em></p>
<p>Ziua a doua a inceput cu un filmulet despre proiectul Rising Voices si rezultatele de pana acum. Foarte moving, incredibil ce se poate obtine, am fost impresionata. O sa caut spotul pe site-ul GV si o sa il postez ulterior.</p>
<p>L-am gasit, il puteti vedea <a href="http://dotsub.com/films/risingvoices/" target="_blank">aici</a>.</p>
<p>Un tip de la REPACTED Kenya, Collins Dennis Odour ne povesteste despre teatrul-forum pe care il folosesc ei in comunitati (magnet theater). Am filmat cu telefonul mobil inceputul prezentarii, iat-o (scuze pentru imaginea not so good, dar merita sa va uitati):</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/xh5S6J1r6NA'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/xh5S6J1r6NA&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Apoi Cristina Restrepo din Colombia a vorbit despre un proiect - Hiperbarrio:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/ud9R2zR32B4'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/ud9R2zR32B4&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Acum Mialy din Madagascar vorbeste despre proiectul Foko si despre problemele din Madagascar - unde, de pilda, internetul inseamna mail si cam atat, pentru ca nu exista broadband, nu pot incarca poze sau filmulete etc.</p>
<p>Tot ascultand ce se vorbeste aici, care sunt problemele in tari pe care - spre rusinea mea - nu sunt capabila sa le localizez bine pe harta, imi vine sa ma fac voluntar si sa plec in lume, sa ajut si eu un pic.</p>
<p>Un alt proiect interesant - Voices Bolivianas - Cristina, o bolivianca indigena, ne povesteste de ce a inceput sa scrie si in engleza, nu doar in spaniola, si cum e sa fii "indigenous blogger" intr-o tara condusa dintotdeauna de o minoritate neindigena si cum e sa fii blogger cand ai probleme nu doar cu conexiunea proasta la internet, ci si cu taste proaste pe care nu ai bani sa le schimbi etc.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/PFk1eioAFLc'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/PFk1eioAFLc&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Se pare ca nu doar eu m-am gandit la partea cu voluntariatul. La sectiunea Q&#38;A  s-a pus aceasta intrebare: How can we help? Iata raspunsurile:</p>
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<p>Al doilea modul de azi este despre politica pe bloguri. Prima prezentare e din Venezuela unde exista o polarizare cam ca in Romania: pro-Chavez si anti-Chavez (diferenta fiind ca Chavez e vazut ca un dictator de toata lumea, pe cand unii inca il considera pe Base ca fiind democrat, ha!). Anyway, din cauza ca viata politica e sufocanta (Hugo Chavez peste tot!), lumea scrie pe bloguri despre normal life, mai degraba. Iata un fragment din prezentarea lui Luis Carlos Diaz:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/566Ekc-QGZQ'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/566Ekc-QGZQ&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Din nou, despre Kenya - de la un famous blogger, Daudi Were:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/ijYYsQIEK5o'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/ijYYsQIEK5o&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Acum o sa fac o pauza - mi s-a terminat bateria la Mac si ma duc sa ii dau de mancare. Revin cand e full battery again :)</p>
<p>Daca va intereseaza ce se intampla aici (si ce s-a intamplat ieri) puteti urmari pe stream-ul GV <a href="http://summit08.globalvoicesonline.org/stream/" target="_blank">aici</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[AVAAZ E GLOBAL VOICES: CIDADANIA GLOBAL]]></title>
<link>http://heliopaz.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/avaaz-o-mundo-em-acao-de-resistencia/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Hélio Sassen Paz</dc:creator>
<guid>http://heliopaz.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/avaaz-o-mundo-em-acao-de-resistencia/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
A resistência pós-moderna é realizada por uma multidão descentralizada, cujo ponto em comum é ]]></description>
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<p>A resistência pós-moderna é realizada por uma multidão descentralizada, cujo ponto em comum é a consciência de que eles pertencem ao mundo todo e não apenas a um continente, país, estado, cidade, partido, associação, sindicato ou movimento social. A pertença e a territorialidade perdem o sentido identitário e revelam uma nova faceta do indivíduo, que é a de defender seus princípios e ajudar àqueles que mais precisam independentemente de onde eles estejam geograficamente.</p>
<p>Ser um cidadão do mundo não é ser estudado, viajado, poliglota, rico ou famoso: é estar ligado nas demandas sociais mais remotas. E, estar ligado em uma dessas demandas é estar ligado em todas ao mesmo tempo. Afinal de contas, elas são GLOBAIS: se ajudarem a resolver um problema no Zimbábue, terão ajuda para resolver um problema semelhante em Porto Alegre e assim sucessivamente.</p>
<p>As ferramentas da disseminação de idéias e a linguagem utilizada são as mesmas que fazem o turbocapitalismo girar: internet, celular, vender idéias políticas sob a forma de bens de consumo midiáticos, a partir de discursos curtos, dinâmicos, cujo conteúdo não precisa repetir o que a mídia corporativa mostra, agindo apenas como uma quebra, como um choque na linearidade do pensamento dirigido.</p>
<p>Se eles querem guerra, NÃO terão guerra: a solução de demandas sociais não funciona de maneira rápida através de leis burguesas, nem da esperança por uma mudança na Lei de Imprensa ou na Lei Geral das Telecomunicações e tampouco pela simples espera pela oferta de novas tecnologias de informação baratas.</p>
<p>Ao contrário do que muitos pensam, não existe alienação, ausência de sentido e nem tampouco esvaziamento da instância política: a esfera pública e o papel do estado agora estão nas mãos de certas instâncias da mídia corporativa e de seus patrocinadores. O estado é fraco e, portanto, é muito mais fácil combater diretamente os donos do mundo (empresas transnacionais de bens simbólicos) do que seguir acreditando que devemos ou alterar, ou defender o estado segundo o falho modelo democrático e legal que não consegue dar conta da sociedade em rede.</p>
<p>Hoje, o vencedor não surge através da tomada do poder político (nem das urnas, nem da força), nem do confronto de palavras em um ambiente totalmente controlado pelo oponente (mídia corporativa) e tampouco através de embates físicos (ocupação, barricada, invasão, destruição, pilhagem, etc.) contra os donos do poder econômico, coercitivo e simbólico: o vencedor é aquele que, pontualmente, consegue massa crítica suficiente para satisfazer demandas diferentes com um cunho semelhante espalhadas ao redor do planeta.</p>
<p>Enfim... Se eu não consigo massa crítica suficiente pra me ajudar aqui, então devo buscá-la no resto do mundo. Um blog não atinge milhões o tempo inteiro e pouca gente acessa internet. Mas a maioria da população mundial possui celular. Em breve, mais gente terá computador em casa do que televisores.</p>
<p>O foco - creio eu - é chegarmos antes no Primeiro Mundo, onde esse modus vivendi já está consolidado na esmagadora maioria da população urbana e, de lá para cá, através de outra forma de enxergar o nosso problema, acompanharmos a preocupação deles conosco e percebermos que empresas, governos, partidos, etc. daqui podem ter suas rédeas puxadas exatamente pela repercussão quase silenciosa que chega com força nos olhos e ouvidos do consumidor, que é quem pode fazê-los quebrar se não consumir seus produtos.</p>
<p>Não é uma simples questão de boicote: é a vergonha de ter seu discurso politicamente correto desmascarado como um reles embuste que, de responsabilidade social e de desenvolvimento sustentável não apresenta nada.</p>
<p>"Se alguém lhe bloquear a porta, não gaste energia com o confronto, procure as janelas."</p>
<p>Não para fugir, nem para matá-los mas, sim, para cercá-los. Quem cerca, desarma. Quem desarma, mobiliza a si desmobilizando o outro.</p>
<p>Isso não significa que tal movimento seja simples nem que o sucesso seja garantido, assim como também não anula a importância nem a possibilidade de sucesso em focos nos quais ainda haja sociedades vivendo em mundos pré-históricos, medievais e modernos em plena pós-modernidade. Contudo, a resistência mais adequada a cada era é aquela que faz o melhor uso possível da tecnologia contemporânea. Usos equivocados de tecnologias inadequadas à época histórica daqueles que detêm a hegemonia só servirão para que sejamos esmagados por eles.</p>
<p>Milhões unem-se pela internet para <a href="http://avaaz.org/po/g8_climate_wakeup">forçar o G8 a obedecer o Protocolo de Kioto</a>; para <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/po/burma_cyclone">ajudar mais de um milhão de vítimas de um ciclone no Mianmar</a>; para <a href="http://avaaz.org/po/democracy_for_zimbabwe">acabar com o clima de guerra civil e realizar novas eleições no Zimbábue</a>; e, assim como nos mostrou o vídeo do começo deste post, também para <a href="http://avaaz.org/po/stop_the_clash">impedir o choque de civilizações entre o islã e o cristianismo</a>.</p>
<p>Dois dos caminhos possíveis são os propostos pela <a href="http://avaaz.org/po/about.php">AVAAZ</a> e também pelo <a href="http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/">GLOBAL VOICES ONLINE</a>:</p>
<p>"O Global Voices <a href="http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/about/">agrega, organiza e amplifica a conversação global na rede</a> - jogando luz nos lugares e pessoas que o resto da mídia geralmente ignora."</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Global Voices Summit - Budapest]]></title>
<link>http://mirelarus.wordpress.com/?p=478</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mirela</dc:creator>
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10.10 Ma aflu la Budapesta, la o intalnire a bloggerilor din reteaua Global Voices. A inceput de do]]></description>
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<p>10.10 Ma aflu la Budapesta, la o intalnire a bloggerilor din reteaua <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/22/youtube-starts-citizen-journalism-channel/" target="_blank">Global Voices</a>. A inceput de doar o jumatate de ora si deja ma simt oarecum in plus. Sau in minus. In jurul meu e plin de oameni din tari cu regimuri opresive, care reusesc sa foloseasca internetul pentru a  scapa de cenzura, oameni ale caror poze, cuvinte, clipuri video sunt importante, arata realitatea acolo unde guvernele se straduiesc sa o ascunda. De pilda, am filmat un pic din introducere si am incarcat pe You Tube - iata cum, in cinci minute, oricine poate vedea ce se intampla aici - pare banal, insa pentru multi dintre participantii la conferinta este un instrument foarte puternic prin care pot contribui, little by little, la schimbarea situatiei din tara lor . Acum, de pilda, vorbeste Andrei, un activist din Belarus (daca nu ati auzit de Lukashenko, dati un search pe Google si vedeti despre ce e vorba). Spuneam ca ma simt cam in plus sau cam in minus - pai eu scriu pe blog cate in luna si in stele, il mai injur pe prezidenul Base, insa fac asta fara stresul ca imi verifica cineva IP-ul si imi bate la usa sa ma ia apoi la bataie sau even worse.</p>
<p><a href="http://mirelarus.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/27062008.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-482" src="http://mirelarus.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/27062008.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p><strong>11.25 Ma intreb daca Ceausescu ar fi cazut mai devreme, daca ar fi existat in Romania internet, sa zicem...cam de prin anii '70. Daca tinerii de atunci ar fi bloguit despre ce se intampla - in engleza, sa vada si americanii, si britanicii care il primeau pe marele nostru conducator cu toate onorurile posibile.</strong></p>
<p>12.00 Acum o bloggerita din Kenya, Ory Okolloh, vorbeste despre cum, in timpul alegerilor din aceasta tara, creditul la mobil era mai important decat orice altceva, pentru cyber-activists. Cum mobile credit-ul se cumpara la preturi de specula, dublu decat cel normal. Dar cum, in ciuda problemelor din Kenya si a modului in care se desfasurau alegerile, blogul ei nu a fost inchis si nici ea nu a fost harrassed (desi avea numele real, foto si tot ce era nevoie pentru a fi identificata. Ory spune ca a fost norocoasa sa aiba internet acasa, altfel nu ar fi putut transmite pe blog ce se intampla, pentru ca era corfu atunci. Povesteste si cum a primit sute si sute de comentarii, multe fiind amenintari - cele mai multe cu tenta sexuala (ca va fi violata, sodomizata etc.)</p>
<p><a href="http://mirelarus.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/27062008001.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-481" src="http://mirelarus.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/27062008001.jpg" alt="Au Way Pang - blogger Singapore" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>12.12 Acum un blogger din Singapore, Au Way Pang, activist pentru drepturile comunitatii gay.<br />
Povesteste cum o persoana a fost inchisa fara proces si condamnare timp de 29 de ani! Trei bloggeri au fost anchetati pentru hate speech.</p>
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<p>12.19 Oiwan Lam e din Hong Kong - unul dintre orasele lumii cel mai opresate din punct de vedere sexual, dupa cum spune chiar cyber-activista. O ordonanta absurda clasifica drept sexuale - deci interzice - fotografii cu statui goale (ca cea a lui David, de pilda).</p>
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<link>http://contratiempo.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/global-voices-ms-all-del-periodismo-ciudadano/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chnoland</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[ Por Chris Nielsen
Desde hace casi cinco años un grupo de jóvenes interesados en darle un signific]]></description>
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<p align="justify">Desde hace casi cinco años un grupo de jóvenes interesados en darle un significado más profundo a los blogs creó <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/" target="_blank">Global Voices</a>.</p>
<p align="justify">Nacida en la Universidad de Harvard, esta organización sin fines de lucro es un proyecto internacional que desea enlazar a las diferentes comunidades de la Red para vencer algunos obstáculos que todavía no dejan fluir una auténtica comunicación: la censura, el idioma y la brecha digital.</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://contratiempo.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/gv-logo-v-100x120-notag.png"><img style="border-width:0;margin:20px 0 0 20px;" src="http://contratiempo.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/gv-logo-v-100x120-notag-thumb.png" alt="gv-logo-v-100x120-notag" width="132" height="158" align="right" /></a>Global Voices cuenta ya con un nutrido grupo de traductores -y siguen sumándose más- que traducen a diferentes idiomas blogs de cada país creando una suerte de blog maestro.</p>
<p align="justify">El equipo ha creado un <a href="http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/maps/" target="_blank">mapa</a> en el que se pueden apreciar los lugares que están siendo víctimas de censura con la idea de denunciar la manera en que los gobiernos están entorpeciendo el flujo de información.</p>
<p align="justify">Cuentan, igualmente, con algunas guías importantes como la de los blogs de activismo (cómo hacerlos, qué incluir, qué requisitos cubrir, cómo mantenerlo, etc.) y los pasos para crear un blog anónimo, además de dar a conocer de qué manera ingresar a esas páginas que han sido vetadas en países como Brasil, Malasia y Turquía.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>ASÍ FUNCIONA GLOBAL VOICES</strong></p>
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<p align="justify"><em>En el creciente número de blogguers alrededor del mundo aparecen los 'blogguers puente': gente que habla de sus países o regiones para una audiencia global. Global Voices es tu guía hacia las más importantes conversaciones, información e ideas que se originan alrededor del mundo en varias formas de comunicación participativa tales como los blogs, podcasts, photosharing y videoblogs.</em></p>
<p align="justify"><em>Nuestro equipo regional, conformado por bloggers-editores, se encuentra trabajando con la finalidad de encontrar, agregar y rastrear tales conversaciones. Todos los días ellos ponen online enlaces a aproximadamente de 5 a 10 entradas más importantes de los blogs en sus propias regiones.</em></p>
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<link>http://direitosehumanos.wordpress.com/?p=58</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Cristina Moreno</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Global Voices Online é uma rede global de blogs reunidos através de um projecto (não lucrativo) d]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/" target="_blank">Global Voices Online</a></strong> é uma rede global de blogs reunidos através de um projecto (não lucrativo) do Berkman Center for Internet and Society da Harvard Law School, com o objectivo de dar voz a acontecimentos, pessoas e lugares habitualmente ignorados pelos meios de comunicação hegemónicos.</p>
<p>Citando:</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">"Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard." [<a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/about/" target="_blank"><strong>About Global Voices</strong></a> - sobre os objectivos do projecto]</p>
<p>Integra também outros projectos, temporários ou permanentes, de cidadania global: <strong><a href="http://voiceswithoutvotes.org/" target="_blank">Voices without Votes (America Votes, the World Speaks)</a></strong>, <a href="http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/" target="_blank"><strong>Rising Voices</strong></a> (Helping the global population joining the global conversation), <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/lingua" target="_blank"><strong>Lingua </strong></a>(Project Lingua seeks to amplify Global Voices in languages other than English with the help of volunteer translators), <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/calendar/" target="_blank"><strong>Calendar </strong></a>(calendar of citizen media events and other noteworthy dates), <a href="http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/" target="_blank"><strong>Global Voices Advocacy</strong></a> (seeks to build a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and online activists dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and free access to information online).</p>
<p>Em formato blog, com um ritmo de informação algo alucinante e por vezes difícil de acompanhar, pode, no entanto, ser consultado por temas - como, por exemplo, "<a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/human-rights/" target="_blank">human rights</a>", "<a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/development/" target="_blank">development</a>", "<a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/freedom-of-speech/" target="_blank">freedom of speech</a>", "<a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/education/" target="_blank">education</a>", ... - ou por países, autores, palavras-chave, etc.</p>
<p>Cristina</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Falta de inclusión digital]]></title>
<link>http://campuserosvcb.wordpress.com/?p=41</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vcbsa</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Por Natalia Muñoz Zapata
Es la tercera barrera señalada por David Sasaki en Campus Blog, y tal vez]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Por Natalia Muñoz Zapata</p>
<p>Es la tercera barrera señalada por David Sasaki en Campus Blog, y tal vez a la voz de muchos, una de las más fuertes, pues en pleno siglo XXI hay muchos países donde la gran parte de su población nunca ha tenido contacto con un computador, menos con la Internet y mucho menos saben qué es un blog o bitácora.</p>
<p><a href="http://campuserosvcb.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/davidsasaki.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-44" style="border:0 none;margin:10px;" src="http://campuserosvcb.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/davidsasaki.jpg?w=200" alt="" width="200" height="133" /></a>Según Sasaki, experto en dicho tema, la mayoría de los bloggers viven en estratos cuatro, cinco y seis; es escaso encontrar un blog de alguien que viva en estratos socioeconómicos bajos. Pero la palabra estrato no hace parte de la virtualidad, en Internet sólo existe el barrio web 2.0: allí se habla de Hotmail, facebook y gmail; algo que todo aquel que tenga acceso a este medio, conoce y sabe manejar.</p>
<p>Cada día hay más bitácoras en la aldea global, pero surgen de las ciudades capitales, de las ciudades cosmopolitas; difícil encontrar algunas de pueblos pequeños.</p>
<p>Para David “la inclusión digital debe empezar desde la escuela, a los cinco años se les debe enseñar a los niños como es el acceso a Internet y que empiecen el contacto con la virtualidad; es lo mismo que enseñarles a escribir en un papel o hasta mejor”.</p>
<p>Rising voices es el proyecto que este estadounidense lidera con la intensión de promover la inclusión digital por todos los rincones del planeta. Ya han lanzado varios proyectos como Voces Bolivianas el primer blog en aymara (dialecto boliviano); también surgió en Bangladesh www.narijibon.blogspot.com con la idea de que las mujeres también tienen mucho qué decir.</p>
<p><a href="http://campuserosvcb.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/nari2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-42 alignleft" style="border:0 none;margin:10px;" src="http://campuserosvcb.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/nari2.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="241" height="181" /></a></p>
<p>Sin embargo el que más nos puede dejar clara la idea de estos jóvenes creadores de blogs, es el proyecto “Hiperbarrio, historias desde San Javier La Loma para todo el mundo” http://hiperbarrio.org . Quizá muchos colombianos no sepan dónde queda este barrio, ni qué historias pueden encontrarse allí, pero para el mundo este barrio es conocido. A través de la Internet, la Comuna 13 de Medellín está mostrando otra cara, jóvenes hombres y mujeres de la zona crean sus propios blogs, cuentan documentales que luego suben a Youtube.</p>
<p>Con esta red de voluntarios que ha creado un grupo de jóvenes norteamericanos, el mundo ya no tiene fronteras, ni obstáculos, todos hacemos parte de una misma ciudad, ni el idioma, ni el estrato ni las diferentes ideas culturales, políticas o religiosas dividen al mundo.</p>
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<title><![CDATA["La censura es otro obstáculo" Sasaki]]></title>
<link>http://campuserosvcb.wordpress.com/?p=39</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vcbsa</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Por Natalia Muñoz Zapata
Abdel Kareem fue detenido tres años en su país porque en su blog escribi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Por Natalia Muñoz Zapata</p>
<p>Abdel Kareem fue detenido tres años en su país porque en su blog escribió sobre el Islam, dos tailandeses fueron detenidos por hablar en contra de su presidente en sus blogs, más de 50 chinos fueron detenidos en los últimos años por las cosas que habían escrito en sus bitácoras. Igualmente en países como Tailandia y Turquía Wordpress y Youtube son bloqueados por contener videos e imágenes que expresan ideas en contra de su gobierno. Pero esto no sólo pasa en el Occidente, en Brasil algunos políticos han manifestado que los blogs no son buenos para la democracia.</p>
<p><a href="http://campuserosvcb.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/advocacy-temptitle2.png"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-40" style="margin:15px;" src="http://campuserosvcb.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/advocacy-temptitle2.png?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="90" /></a>Razón por la que David Sasaki y sus amigos quisieron darle una solución a este problema, y aunque “la censura siempre ha existido, hay que combatirla”. Por esto este grupo a través de http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org imparte conocimientos para usar blogs de buena manera, como en el caso de los activistas que hagan parte de las ONG; también para quienes crean que hacer un blog anónimo es la solución, tienen las bases y conocimientos para que todos puedan seguir en la red, conectados y escribiendo sus opiniones personales.</p>
<p>“Nosotros somos afortunados porque vivimos en países donde podemos expresar lo que sentimos de nuestro gobierno o religión y nadie nos callará; pero hay países y zonas del mundo donde esto es todo un delito” concluyó el conferencista.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Prison Diaries e i detenuti jamaicani]]></title>
<link>http://bernyblog.wordpress.com/?p=412</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>berny</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[ Proseguendo il buon ritmo (e il gran lavoro!) con Global Voices italiano, ecco oggi un interessante]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font color="green"><a href="http://it.globalvoicesonline.org/"><img src="http://img.globalvoicesonline.org/Badges/lingua/linguabadge-it.png" alt="Global Voices in Italiano" vspace="2" hspace="4" align="left"></a> Proseguendo il buon ritmo (e il gran lavoro!) con <a href="http://it.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices italiano</a>, ecco oggi un interessante pezzo su <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/jamaica">Prison Diaries</a>, un progetto di giornalismo partecipativo che opera, attenzione, <a href="http://it.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/06/prison-diaries-mostra-la-vita-reale-dei-prigionieri-dietro-le-sbarre-in-jamaica/">nelle prigioni jamaicane</a>. "Quando si pensa a Kingston, la capitale della Jamaica, blog e podcast non sono certo le prime cose che vengono in mente. Solitamente la si associa a notizie tipo "Capitale mondiale per numero di omicidi", oppure a Bob Marley e alla musica reggae. Ma certo non a un programma di riabilitazione che spiega ai detenuti di un carcere di massima sicurezza come curare un blog, creare un podcast e persino imparare a muoversi in Second Life." <a href="http://it.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/06/prison-diaries-mostra-la-vita-reale-dei-prigionieri-dietro-le-sbarre-in-jamaica/">Articolo da non perdere</a>!</font></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cobertura Especial das Olimpíadas]]></title>
<link>http://lusosfera.wordpress.com/?p=90</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Paula Góes</dc:creator>
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A página da cobertura especial das Olímpiadas 2008, pelo Global Voices, já está online! Não pe]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;">A <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/special/olympics/">página da cobertura especial das Olímpiadas 2008</a>, pelo Global Voices, já está online! Não perca!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Global voices 2008]]></title>
<link>http://jukepartners.wordpress.com/?p=153</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jukepartners</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[

Global Voices and Média Hungária will hold the 2008 Summit in Budapest on June 27-28.  This annu]]></description>
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<a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/"><a href="http://summit08.globalvoicesonline.org/"></a><a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/"></p>
<p>Global Voices</a></a> and Média Hungária will hold the 2008 Summit in Budapest on June 27-28.  This annual summit brings together the members of the Global Voices project and a diverse group of bloggers, technologists, journalists and other interested persons.  It is of particular relevance to people outside North America and Western Europe.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Nossos selos]]></title>
<link>http://lusosfera.wordpress.com/?p=81</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Paula Góes</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Cazimar, do blogue África Minha, enviou um e-mail caloroso agradencendo a nossa cobertura (não há]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cazimar, do blogue <a href="http://africaminhamami.blogspot.com/">África Minha</a>, enviou um e-mail caloroso agradencendo a nossa cobertura (não há de que!) e perguntando onde conseguir um selo do Global Voices Online. Como pode interessar a outras pessoas - e sendo também muito importante para o nosso trabalho, eis os links.</p>
<p>Ah, não se esqueça que você pode escolher entre o selo do do site original, em inglês ou o da versão em português, que traduz textos selecionados.</p>
<p><strong> Inglês-&#62;</strong> <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/for-bloggers/#badges" target="_blank">http://globalvoicesonline.org/for-bloggers/#badges</a><br />
<strong> Português-&#62;</strong> <a href="http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/para-blogueiros/" target="_blank">http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/para-blogueiros/</a></p>
<p>Também é possível publicar  feeds, e até fazer a seleção, por exemplo, da cobertura da Lusosfera em inglês ou em português:</p>
<p><strong>Inglês-&#62;</strong> <span><a class="a" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/languages/portuguese/feed/">http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/languages/portuguese/feed/</a></span><br />
<strong> Português-&#62;</strong> <span><a class="a" href="http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/category/languages/portuguese/feed/">http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/category/languages/portuguese/feed/</a></span></p>
<p>Também é possível fazer a seleção por país ou região, autor, etc, tudo a gosto do freguês.</p>
<p>O que acaba de me lembrar que esse blogue aqui bem que poderia ter um selo né? Mas feed pelo menos temos:</p>
<p><span><a class="a" href="../feed/">http://lusosfera.wordpress.com/feed/</a></span></p>
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<link>http://antonioconsoli.wordpress.com/?p=179</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 08:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>antonioconsoli</dc:creator>
<guid>http://antonioconsoli.wordpress.com/?p=179</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ho segnalato nella barra accanto un progetto nuovo: Global Voices. Be&#8217;, nuovo non è. E&#8217;]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">Ho segnalato nella barra accanto un progetto nuovo: <a href="http://it.globalvoicesonline.org/" target="_blank">Global Voices</a>. Be', nuovo non è. E' nuova la traduzione in italiano.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Global Voices</strong> è un portale che assicura la libera circolazione dei fatti e delle idee praticamente in tutto il mondo. Se i media tradizionali non danno spazio, oscurano, tagliano, censurano, ostacolano, Global Voices rende disponibili in ben 14 lingue fatti di cronaca, di diritti umani, politica, tecnologia, religione, sviluppo e molto altro ancora.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dietro questo lavoro c'è <strong>Bernardo Parrella</strong>, giornalista feeelance e traduttore. Possiamo aiutare l'intera redazione di Global Voices diffondendo il loro logo, quello cioé che ho inserito nella sidebar e che anche voi potete copiare nei vostri blog. Grazie.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Al via Global Voices in italiano]]></title>
<link>http://bernyblog.wordpress.com/?p=404</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 13:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>berny</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://it.globalvoicesonline.org"><img src="http://img.globalvoicesonline.org/Badges/lingua/linguabadge-it.png" alt="GV italiano" align="left"></a>Sempre per i due gatti (o cani) che seguono questo spazio, l'assenza di questi giorni è dovuta sostanzialmene all'ennesimo progetto che mi sono accollato: <a href="http://it.globalvoicesonline.org">Global Voices in italiano</a>. In sintesi, <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org">Global Voices</a> è un network di cittadini-reporter indipendenti attivo da tre anni finalizzato a "dare voce a chi non ha voce", un serio tentativo di aggregazione spontanea di voci indipendenti a livello globale. La versione italiana partirà a breve, sempre basata su lavoro volontario, almeno per ora. Per saperne di più, c'è <a href="http://www.lsdi.it/2008/05/25/global-voices-parla-anche-italiano/">questa segnalazione su LSDI</a>, un ottimo <a href="http://www.visionpost.it/weweb/global-voices-ora-parla-italiano.htm">rilancio su VisionPost</a> e un'<a href="http://www.apogeonline.com/webzine/2008/05/28/19/200805281901">intervista al sottoscritto su Apogeonline</a>, dove si fa una bella panoramica del progetto globale. Traduttori e collaboratori <a href="mailto:bernardo.parrella@gmail.com">cercasi!</a></p>
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<link>http://lusosfera.wordpress.com/?p=74</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 10:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Paula Góes</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Solana Larsen, nossa editora geral do Global Voices (a fofa da foto), criou uma estória em quadrinh]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Solana Larsen, nossa editora geral do Global Voices (a fofa da foto), criou uma <a href="http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/?id=12025">estória em quadrinhos</a> super-bacana para ajudar a divulgar <a href="http://summit08.globalvoicesonline.org/">o encontro anual do Global Voices</a>, que acontece esse ano em Budapeste, em julho, e eu acabei de traduzir pra o português. <a href="http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/?id=12039">Confira</a>!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/?id=12039"><img src="http://lusosfera.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/gvo_budapeste.jpg" alt="Nosso encontro em Budapeste" width="500" height="299" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-75" /></a></p>
<p>A ferramenta que ela usou se chama <a href="http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/">Bubblr!</a> e é muito legal criada por um pessoal bem criativo de Barcelona (<a href="http://www.pimpampum.net/">olha como é bacana o site deles</a>!). Além de criar suas próprias estorinhas usando fotos do Flickr, a pessoa pode também editar historinhas já existentes. </p>
<p>Ah, quanto ao nosso encontro em Budapeste, <a href="http://lusosfera.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/encontro-do-gvo-para-debater-midia-cidada-em-budapest/">que já falei aqui</a>, acontece entre 27 a 28 de junho. Eu não vejo a hora e estou até aprendendo a temida <a href="http://www.letslearnhungarian.net/">língua húngara</a>!</p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 18:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Paula Góes</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Estão abertas vagas para autores voluntários que queiram contribuir com o Global Voices Online, e ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/for-bloggers/author-vacancies/">Estão abertas vagas</a> para autores voluntários que queiram contribuir com o <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices Online</a>, e estamos a procura de pessoas que se interessem em escrever artigos sobre o que blogueiros da África Lusófona estão falando.</p>
<p>Procuramos, de preferência, nativos ou moradores da região, ou seja, colaboradores com um bom conhecimento de causa para nos ajudar a melhorar a cobertura nos países que fazem parte da África Lusófona. É preciso, a priori, domínio da língua inglesa, já que os textos originais são primeiro publicados no GVO antes de serem traduzidos para o GVP, e também para que o autor acompanhar toda a comunicação das listas de discussão - nossos autores estão em todas as partes do planeta!</p>
<p>Se você se interessar pela vaga, entre em contato conosco. E por favor, nos ajude a divulgar a vaga!</p>
<p><a title="I'm an Author for Global Voices" href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/"></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img.globalvoicesonline.org/Badges/general/gv-badge-author.gif" alt="I'm an Author for Global Voices" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Chinese earthquake and Twitter - crowdsourcing without managers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>paulbradshaw</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been an earthquake in China, and the Twittersphere is alive with it. I&#8217;m going t]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There's been an earthquake in China, and the Twittersphere is alive with it. <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">I'm going to write a post on this and keep adding to it through the next hour or so. Let me know anything interesting you've spotted <a href="http://twitter/com/paulbradshaw">@paulbradshaw</a></span></p>
<p>The first interesting point is <a href="http://tweetburner.com/">Tweetburner</a>: its most-clicked links shared on Twitter are almost entirely about the earthquake, and show some interesting uses:</p>
<p><a href="http://onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/chinaearthquake.gif"><img class="alignnone wp-image-1137" src="http://onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/chinaearthquake.gif" alt="China Earthquake tweets on Tweetburner" /></a></p>
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<li>A <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#38;hl=en&#38;geocode=&#38;q=%E6%B1%B6%E5%B7%9D%E5%8E%BF&#38;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&#38;sspn=30.599615,59.765625&#38;ie=UTF8&#38;ll=31.686108,103.590088&#38;spn=2.051918,3.735352&#38;t=h&#38;z=8&#38;iwloc=addr">Google map of the earthquake location</a></li>
<li>A <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/twitter_and_the_china_earthqua.html">BBC blog post about Twitter coverage of the earthquake</a></li>
<li>A <a href="http://twitter.com/nocas/statuses/809139803">Twitter user's tweet about experiencing the earthquake</a> (in Shanghai)</li>
<li>A <a href="http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitterlocal.net%2Fshow%2FChina%2F20&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF8&#38;sl=zh-CN&#38;tl=en">Google translation from Chinese to English of tweets from Twitterlocal</a></li>
<li>The <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008ryan.php">Earthquake Center's page on the earthquake</a></li>
<li><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/china.quake/index.html">CNN's report</a></li>
<li>A <a href="http://photocdn.sohu.com/20080512/Img256802638.JPG">picture which appears to be capturing the earthquake in an office</a></li>
<li>A <a href="http://summize.com/search?q=earthquake">Summize search for 'earthquake'</a></li>
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<p>Here is crowdsourcing without the editorial management. How quickly otherwise would a journalist have thought of using Twitterlocal with a Google translation? And how soon before someone improves it so it only pulls tweets with the word 'earthquake', or more specific to the region affected? (It also emphasises the need for newspapers and broadcasters to have programmers on the team who could do this quickly)<!--more--></p>
<p>How quickly would a journalist have found <a href="http://twitter.com/nocas/statuses/809139803">someone who speaks English and was affected by the quake</a>? Or an image? (Of course, this needs verifying, but sourcing has already begun)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alphatwitter.com/today.php">AlphaTwitter shows some of the same results</a> but also included <a href="http://michristensen.blogspot.com/2008/05/earthquake-in-china.html">a video of someone experiencing tremors 950 miles away in Beijing</a>, <a href="http://news.sina.com.cn/z/08earthquake/index.shtml">a Chinese language report </a>(including that picture mentioned above) and <a href="http://www.danwei.org/breaking_news/earthquake_in_china.php">an English language Chinese media report</a>. <a href="http://www.tweetmeme.com/">Tweetmeme </a>showed the same links as Tweetburner.</p>
<p><a href="http://twitturly.com/">Twitt(url)y</a> and <a href="http://hashtags.org/">Hashtags</a>, meanwhile, both appeared to be down. And <a href="http://www.intwition.com/brb.php">Intwition </a>picked the worst possible time to pause their service for changes.</p>
<h2>Twitter coverage of the earthquake</h2>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/Scobleizer">Robert Scoble</a> was following proceedings on his much-followed Twitter, and feeding back information from his followers, including, for instance (after he tweeted the fact that <a href="http://www.tweetscan.com">Tweetscan </a>was struggling) <a href="http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/statuses/809159091">that people were saying Summize was the best tool to use</a>.</p>
<p>If you followed the conversation through Scoble <a href="http://quotably.com/Scobleizer">using Quotably</a>, you could then find <a href="http://twitter.com/greggscott">Gregg Scott</a>, who in turn was <a href="http://twitter.com/greggscott/statuses/809172045">talking to RedChina</a>, <span class="entry-content"><a href="http://twitter.com/Karoli">Karoli</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/mmsullivan">mmsullivan</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/inwalkedbud">inwalkedbud</a> who was in Chengdu, China (also there was <a href="http://twitter.com/casperodj">Casperodj</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Lyrrael">Lyrrael</a>).</span></p>
<p><span class="entry-content">If you wanted to check out inwalkedbud you could <a href="http://www.tweetstats.com/graphs/inwalkedbud">do so using Tweetstats </a>and find he has been twittering since December. Sadly the Internet Archive <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://twitter.com/inwalkedbud">doesn't bring any results</a>, though.</span></p>
<p>The mainstream media had differing reports: RTE (Ireland) <a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0512/china.html">said </a>"No major damage after China earthquake" - but UK's Sky News <a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1315695,00.html">reported four children killed and over 100 injured</a>; Chinaview (China) <a href="http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-05/12/content_8151822.htm">said </a>no buildings had collapsed - but an Australian newspaper <a href="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23686037-23109,00.html">said they had</a>.</p>
<p>Interestingly, Chinaview was slow loading, presumably because of excessive demand from users - another reason Twitter, with its 140 character minimalism, should in theory prove more useful during a major news event. I say in theory because Twitter is not as reliable as it should be.</p>
<p>World Wide Help, a blog set up following the Asian tsunami, <a href="http://worldwidehelp.blogspot.com/2008/05/updates-coming-in.html">started liveblogging it</a>.</p>
<p>And perhaps the best coverage came from <a href="http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/12/earthquake-hits-wenchuan-sichuan.php">Shanghaiist, which also liveblogged it,</a> including an image, links to twitter tweets, radio reports, Google Maps and video (many of these the same as listed above - it's hard to tell whether they got their links from Twitter or vice versa).</p>
<p>Interestingly, their latest update as I type is <strong>UPDATE 30, 5:32pm:</strong> Not confirmed, but from reliable source: "Propaganda dept has banned news outlets from sending own teams. All stories have to be from Xinhua." Anyone have more details?</p>
<p>From The Frontline <a href="http://www.fromthefrontline.co.uk/blogs/index.php?blog=5&#38;title=twitter_s_quicker_debate_over&#38;more=1&#38;c=1&#38;tb=1&#38;pb=1">recorded how they had used Twitter to follow events, and concluded </a>the time for debate on the usefulness of Twitter is over. Well, of course.</p>
<p>It also brings up debates about the role of journalists in a networked age - given that I could follow the story (conversation) from an office in Birmingham UK, but mainly because I knew the right tools to do so, how does that affect the journalist's role? I'd answer that firstly they need to know the tools (including those of verification), and secondly they need to be in the conversations already. What's your excuse?</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: In another demonstration of the importance of being in the conversation, this blog post was linked to by Robert Scoble, generating a pingback (notification of a link), which made me read his blog post, which then led me to <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/12/china-78-scale-earthquake-felt-across-most-of-china/">Global Voices Online's links</a> to videos and other Twitter and blog reports (this is why journalists should be blogging). They link to <a href="http://summize.com/search?q=%E5%9C%B0%E9%9C%87">a non-English summize search</a> for, presumably, 'earthquake'. Another key point:</p>
<blockquote><p>"<a href="https://twitter.com/flypig/statuses/809139804">Many</a> are writing of <a href="https://twitter.com/flypig/statuses/809132017">difficulties</a> connecting to those <a href="https://twitter.com/flypig/statuses/809133361">at the center</a> of the quake zone over <a href="https://twitter.com/frankyu/statuses/809149131">telephone</a>, but the internet seems to <a href="https://twitter.com/inwalkedbud/statuses/809152607">still be functioning</a>. Beijing-based tech guru Kaiser Kuo writes that the government Earthquake Bureau website is currently inaccessible, presumably from high levels of traffic."</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Mathew Ingram <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080512.WBmingram20080512114153/WBStory/WBmingram/?page=rss&#38;id=RTGAM.20080512.WBmingram20080512114153">adds</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>"People can post messages about whatever they wish, rather than answering only the questions that a producer asks them, and they can add links to blog posts, photos, maps and video. In the study I <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080502.WBmingram20080502170858/WBStory/WBmingram/">wrote about recently</a> that looked at Twitter and Facebook and Wikipedia as disaster reporting tools, one of the comments about the California fires was that the media focused on celebrities and how they were affected, but Twitter and other sources gave a more complete version of events and how they were affecting everyone."</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/2008/05/12/earthquake-in-chengdu-and-mianyang-china/">From Better Living Through Software</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>"It’s silly in the extreme to act like twitter is somehow breaking news, though.  Masses of people within China found out about the earthquake as it was happening via messages from friends on QQ (which is massively more popular than twitter), and CCTV carried the news almost instantly.  I suppose it’s cute that some English-speaking expats using echo-chamber technology were able to *also* report the event on twitter, but even the tweetscan example seems a bit lame to me.  When I search for tweets with the word “地震”, tweetscan gives me nothing — apparently tweetscan doesn’t care about Chinese.  Perhaps this explains why Scoble and BBC are reporting only English tweets from China."</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Two more blog posts worth reading for their balanced effect. Firstly, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/12/104648/604/478/514142">the Daily Kos has a post</a> that gives an overview of online coverage in both English and Chinese, including a link to the <a href="http://video.qq.com/v1/group/actinf?cid=1044">QQ Earthquake video page</a>. <a href="http://digitalwatch.ogilvy.com.cn/en/?p=257">Digital Watch talks of the hubris</a> of those hyping the role of Twitter in coverage:</p>
<blockquote><p>"Twitter’s immediacy was nice, but by no means unique. The whole time I was twittering, my wife was on her instant messengers, with both QQ and MSN Live open. She was also monitoring all the portals’ news flashes on the quake. I didn’t feel like I had any more information than she did</p>
<p>"Twitter’s public nature was of some real value both for ordinary folk and for professional journalists, who were able to quickly identify English-speakers on the scene who could be interviewed. The broadcast nature of Twitter, while it can bore one to tears when used to gratuitously announce one’s pedestrian comings and goings, was in this case something that made it better than simple IM.</p>
<p>"The other dimension to Twitter that proved very useful in this case was its global usership: there were lots of Chinese messages I was following, and I was among many people bilingual individuals translating more useful, insightful, or interesting tweets from Chinese into English. Call it “bridge microblogging.”"</p></blockquote>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 21:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More on Zuckerman's homophily and Obama's empathy.  <a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/09/on_informationbased_empathy/index.php">Cross-posted from TPMCafe</a>.</p>
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<p>We had an <a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/08/a_question_for_the_community_t/">interesting discussion yesterday</a> about the tendency we all have to choose information that validates our beliefs and reject the information that doesn't. The conversation focused mostly on the politics of the moment, both the conservative/liberal divide and the Obama/Clinton divide. Certainly, we can see in some of the discussions that devoted supporters of both sides have a tough time digesting bad info but love to trumpet good info. That's an important thing for us as a community to contemplate.</p>
<p>But it's also essential, I think, to broaden the focus from just our little world of debate to the whole world itself. In fact, I think Obama has pointed us in a direction that encourages us to break out of these mindsets even beyond our partisan politics.</p>
<p>I <a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/05/23/where_is_the_love/">wrote last May</a> about a speech Obama gave in which he argued that we as a country suffer from an empathy deficit.  He said, at the time:</p>
<blockquote><p>There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit - the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through those who are different from us - the child who's hungry, the laid-off steelworker, the immigrant woman cleaning your dorm room.</p></blockquote>
<p>It's an important point, and one that is foundational to his form of communitarian liberalism.The question, though, is how we get there. Some of it has to just be cultivating more selflessness as simply a mental habit. Make an effort to think more about others, try to be more patient and open-minded, etc. That much most liberals usually agree is important.</p>
<p>But we can also now do it with information consumption. In this era when we can choose whatever information we want, we can cultivate our empathetic imaginations by making an effort to learn about the lives of folks different from ourselves.</p>
<p>Ethan Zuckerman, the founder of an organization called Global Voices that aggregates reporting and opinion from the blogosphere all over the world, <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/04/25/homophily-serendipity-xenophilia/">calls this tendency</a> for birds of a feather to flock together (socially, imformationally, whatever) "homophily." Homophily, he argues, makes us stupid. His point is essentially the same one that <a href="http://www.eschatonblog.com/2008_05_04_archive.html#8510429340424945111">Atrios made</a> in my post from yesterday.  We all have tendencies to be hacks.</p>
<p>The opportunity we have, though, to cultivate our empathy (a desire Zuckerman ascribes to "xenophiliacs", people who love to learn about things that are different) is amazing. Zuckerman's approach is to reach out across the globe and try to bring "global voices" into American conversation. So, instead of relying on what the <em>New York Times</em> says people in Iraq are saying, we can go over and read it on their blogs for ourselves.</p>
<p>The same is possible, I think, here in the US. Obama asks us to learn to put ourselves in the shoes of a steelworker, an immigrant cleaner, or a child. But, as new media and high-speed internet proliferates, maybe we'll be able to go out and read their blogs as well. Find out from them what they think, what their lives are like, what they believe.</p>
<p>The choice online, then, is fairly radical. We can choose to be homophiliac hacks who read only content and live in only communities that validates us and our beliefs. Or we can cultivate our social empathy and reach out across not just the partisan or ideological spectrum, but also racial, class, age or gender divides that exist within what is supposed to be a single national community.</p>
<p>It's increasingly a matter of what information we choose to consume.</p>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/08/site-do-global-voices-summit-%e2%80%9808-esta-no-ar/">Traduzi</a> hoje o anúncio de que o site <a href="http://summit08.globalvoicesonline.org/">o site do Global Voices Summit ‘08</a> está no ar. Trata-se do nosso encontro anual para debater a mídia cidadã, que esse ano acontece de 27 a 28 de junho em Budapeste. É a primeira vez que vou, e também a primeira vez que verei ao vivo e em cores <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/author/danielduende/">Daniel Duende</a> e <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/author/jose-murilo-junior/">José Murilo Júnior</a>, meus colegas na editoria e no <a href="http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices em Português</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/summit_iphone.jpg" alt="" width="319" height="459" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Informações sobre inscrições podem ser encontradas <a href="http://summit08.globalvoicesonline.org/registration/">aqui</a>. Quem já quiser participar da conversa pode entrar no <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16242993114">grupo no facebook</a>, ou correr atrás das últimas notícias no <a href="http://twitter.com/gvsummit08">Twitter</a>. Por falar em Twitter, também <a href="http://twitter.com/lusosfera">estamos lá</a>. E e se quiser ajudar a divulgar esse evento, pode <a href="http://summit08.globalvoicesonline.org/about/badges-and-press-images/">colocar um selo</a> no seu site ou blogue como esse aí do lado ou esse outro logo abaixo:</p>
<p><a title="Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 in Budapest" href="http://summit08.globalvoicesonline.org"><img style="margin:3px 0;" src="http://img.globalvoicesonline.org/Badges/meetings/summit-badges-418.gif" alt="Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 in Budapest" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Russia has a new president, in name at least. Former president Vladimir Putin is expected to expand his own authority as the new prime minister. The vote that brought Dmitry Medvedev to power was seen as <a title="CSM russia vote irregularities" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0506/p04s03-woeu.html" target="_blank">neither free nor fair</a>. But that's not putting a damper on the pomp and parades in Moscow this week. Medvedev's inauguration today took place in the Kremlin's St. Andrew's Hall. Reports from there say the event was short, solemn, emotional. <a title="BBC medvedev handover" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7387445.stm" target="_blank">The BBC</a> has some nice video. Here's the story I put on the air today.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">My London-based colleague, Fiona Cameron got hold of a well-known Russian cartoonist, Mikhail Zlatkovsky. And I included one clip from him in today's story. He seems to be a <a title="Independent Zlatkovsky" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/no-laughing-matter-cartoons-and-the-kremlin-818063.html" target="_blank">very interesting character</a>. Here's a link to <a title="flikr zlatkovsky cartoons" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pritheworld/sets/72157604934293900/" target="_blank">some of his cartoons</a>. And here's another audio clip from Fiona's interview with Zlatkovsky, where he's talking about what he's drawing now and whether he's going to start putting Medvedev in satirical cartoons any time soon.</p>
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<p>Members of the political opposition in Russia planned to hold a rally in Moscow yesterday. But the demonstration never happened. Dozens of people were detained by police, according to news reports. <a title="russian blog arrest photos" href="http://drugoi.livejournal.com/2591771.html" target="_blank">This blog post </a>includes some photos of arrests taking place on 6 May. Thanks to Veronica Khokhlova of Global Voices Online for <a title="Global Voices Veronica Khokhlova" href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/06/russia-the-march-sort-of/" target="_blank">the link and translations</a>.</p>
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