Posts

http://www.desertpeace.wordpress.com, on the young Palestinian dancer

http://www.barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com, on young bloggers in Barbados

http://tallerelmate.com.ar/conlosdedos/main.php, a blog on young students in Argentina

http://www.caboindex.com/blog/documentario-mae-ju/

on music, and youth and a new life in angola:

Peace in Angola after decades of war — first the war for independence against the Portuguese troops and followed by an equally bloody fratricidal war — has brought forth the development of varied and rich musical forms, and also their discovery by audiences at home and abroad. We are not saying that there was no music being made and recorded before that — check it out the recording in the box , already referenced months ago in this blog, or in the recent compilation , all of them created in the last years of Portuguese domination — or the innumerable recordings from Kizomba artists edited during the civil war. But, in recent years, new genres were born and have grown with unstoppable strength — especially the very Angolan version of the hip-hop, and also the Kuduro and the Tarrachinha.
Tarrachinha - The Sexiest Music in the World (and Other Musics from Angola) - Raízes e Antenas

So how is the world talking on online? Here are some guides.

A basic. I wrote a guide. It is simple and a starter. Go to http://www.ijnet.org and click on a citizens guide to blogging. They also have a regular column on new media and in the resources area you will find tools as well.

At http://www.poynter.org, if you go to the online section, you'll discover a long discussion of tools and resources for online journalists.

At the Online Journalism Review, you'll have an extensive resource on how to write and operate a blog, their site is http://www.ojr.org, go to their tools section. Also sign up to receive their e-mail updates.

Almost everything you need to know and then more is at cyberjournalist: its site is http://www.cyberjournalist.net

One of my favorites is the Institute for Interactive Journalism, J-Lab, at the University of Maryland; http://www.j-lab.org
Take a tour of the sites they recommend.

http://www.black-iris.com/2007/09/23/adultery-trash-talk-alternatively-titled-wtf/

http://narijibon.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-long-women-will-suffer.html

http://www.narijibonusa.org/womenslives.html

http://wholeheartedly-sudaniya.blogspot.com/search/label/women

http://arabwomanprogressivevoice.blogspot.com/2007/05/crimes-against-palestinian-women.html

http://www.eurasianet.org/kyrgyzstan/voices/person6.html

http://www.cilicia.com/2008/01/anger_8713.html

http://degrouchyowl.blogspot.com/2008/01/and-even-ground-shall-testify.html

Click to read this story by Paul Salopek

african bloggers

I think that Paul Salopek's story on bloggers in Ethiopia today truly sums up what it means to blog in Africa and other places where people's freedom of expression is on a tight leash.
 My blog on the Arab world is http://www.stevebey.wordpress.com

http://www.cjr.org/feature/the_new_arab_conversation.php

http://www.openarab.net/en/articles/2007/art0121.shtml

http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=694

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-corr_africajan13,1,3164532.story?coll=chi_mezz&ctrack=1&cset=true

This blog is called Chicago Talking to the World. It was created by Teresa Puente and Stephen Franklin for their Global Online Journalism class at Columbia College Chicago.
For this blog, we will highlight stories of bloggers from around the world, especially those in countries with oppressive regimes. We will look at how bloggers are voices for change in their homelands. We also will highlight the voices of our students and alternative voices from Chicago.
This winter session class runs Jan. 9 to Jan. 23, 2008.