Global Voices Digest for August 21st, 2008
Korea: What You Know vs How Much You Know About It
A blogger introduces a graph and talks about what knowledge means and how you can build up the knowledge.
Environmental concerns a priority for Pacific Island bloggers
Outside of denouncing military rule in Fiji, environmental concerns top the agenda as South Pacific leaders gather this week in Alofi, the capital of Nieu.
Jamaica: “Lightning” Strikes Twice at Beijing Olympics
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt continued his phenomenal run at the Beijing Olympics with a record-breaking win in the men’s 200m Wednesday and Caribbean bloggers are celebrating just as much as he is!
Egypt: Parliamentary Fire Reactions
People’s reactions here are really confusing … ehm … and amusing as well. Ok, believe it or not, but some people here were really happy that a fire has destroyed Egypt’s iconic Parliamentary building.
Today on Rising Voices: REPACTED: Learning to Blog
We have some updates from the Rising Voices grantee REPACTED. In the last week of July REPACTED had a workshop on report writing and blogging in their project office in Nakuru, Kenya.
Today on Voices Without Votes: Switzerland, France: Swift Boat Strategy Part II
Jean-François Schwab, a Swiss blogger at americanpolyphony, revisits the summer of 2008 in US politics, a deceptively eventful summer that has seen Obama’s slight advantage in the poll disappear and turn into a 5 point-deficit in favor of McCain a week before the Democratic National Convention.
Beijing Olympics Coverage
Counting the medals? Thanks to support from Reuters, Global Voices is covering citizen media reactions to the Olympics from citizens in China and around the world on our special coverage page and in our Olympics Twitter feed. The Twitter feed is also being translated to French by Global Voices in French and is published on French website, Rue89.
Roundups
Get the blog buzz from the world over in the Global Roundups, where today you can take a “narco”-tours to visit sites associated with the drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, see how the Muslim ritual Shab-E-Barat (night of forgiveness) is celebrated in Bangladesh, buy some good old radioactive Uranium Ore from Amazon.com, and much much more!