Archive for January, 2007
Women and bloggers in the Cities of Salt
Keeping up the trend inaugurated by Time (magazine) with the nomination of “You” (the entire community of the Internet) as Time’s Person of the Year 2006, the January issue of the monthly M magazine of the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad has published a particularly interesting series of articles related to the power of the Internet. [...]
Heal the World with Video
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I found this text about The Human Rights Video Hub Pilot in Wordt Vervolgd ( nº 12/1 - Dec 2006 | Jan 2007), the monthly magazine (print version) of the Dutch section of Amnesty International. See the translation below.
Verbeter De Wereld Met YouTUbe
Getuige van politiegeweld of andere mensenrechtenschendingen? [...]
Blogging, the nihilist impulse
Media theorist and Internet activist Geert Lovink formulates a theory of weblogs that goes beyond the usual rhetoric of citizens’ journalism. Blogs lead to decay, he writes. What’s declining is the “Belief in the Message”. Instead of presenting blog entries as mere self-promotion, we should interpret them as decadent artefacts that remotely dismantle the broadcast [...]
GVdelhi2006 Summit Map
I think that the GVdelhi2006 Summit Map is ready for use even if some GV friends did not send their information yet. There will be always a possibility to add the few missing ones and complete it.
The aim of designing the GVdelhi2006 Map is to memorize the Summit and the presence of all [...]
