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
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.