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Prison Diaries: Prisoners use blogs as a start to social reform

by David Sasaki | May 13, 2008 | English

Sometimes I feel like there are more websites dedicated to documenting citizen journalism than actual citizen journalism initiatives. Among them: J-Lab, Idea Lab, Media Shift, Press Think, MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media, Contentious, Online Journalism...

Pangea Day, A Glocal Event

by David Sasaki | May 12, 2008 | English

With my lifestyle and the dispersed locations of my friends, it is very rare when we can all do what most groups of friends do at least once a month: relax by watching the same movie together. In fact, this year I will only have two opportunities to do exactly that....

Modern Day Conquistadores

by David Sasaki | May 11, 2008 | English, Translations

My faithful fellow anglophones, as you may have noticed, the last two entries around here were written in Spanish. Sorry about that. But then, change is the spice of life, is it not? I’m contemplating the idea of publishing all future blog posts in both English...

[Objective] Forging a Glocal Life

by David Sasaki | May 6, 2008 | English

Last week I read two contradictory texts that each struck me as equally true. The first, in the form of a six-word “tweet” came from Romina Oliverio, an Argentine-Canadian who I believe is currently in Peru. She said: My roots are people, not places. Of...

A Brief Trip to Medellin, Madagascar, Dhaka, and Uruguay

by David Sasaki | May 3, 2008 | English, Rising Voices

Many thanks to Nicholas Laughlin from Trinidad and Tobago and Joan Razafimaharo from Montreal, Canada for leaving comments on the last batch of featured Rising Voices posts. I hope that more of you will leave comments of encouragement in this week’s collection...