[Podcast] A Latin Indie Techno Hipster at Heart
The writing on the wall across the street reads: Ni indigenismo, ni oligarquía Viva la revolución obrera The main thoroughfare of wrinkled, potholed pavement branches out into a vast labyrinthine lattice of cobble-stoned alleys named after Latin American...
Upcoming: Human Rights, Liberians in NYC, Lullabies in Argentina, OLPC Uruguay, Voces Bolivianas, Community News, Collaborative Translation, and Digital Transformation
I intended for this post to serve as some sort of table of contents for what I’ll be writing about over the next couple months, but I think that this is really me trying to keep my head on straight as I flutter and flounder all over the map. The Soul of the New...
Bodies Wrapped in Silk, Distance and Proximity in Friendships, the Island of the Sun, and Dedicated Teachers
At this year’s Global Voices Summit held in Budapest many attendees asked the Rising Voices participants how they could help support their projects. One of the best way to encourage new bloggers to keep sharing stories about their lives and communities is to...
Look Sexy, Help Train More Bolivian Bloggers
People resort to pathetic tactics to attract members of the opposite sex. Look what was witnessed not long ago in Italy: Can you believe it? All that care – the dog food, the pooper-scooper-upper, the chewed-up shoes – just to initiate a little public...(Really) Breaking Outside of the Echo Chamber
The most difficult challenge I’ve encountered so far with Rising Voices hasn’t been training new communities with little online experience how to effectively use new media tools like blogs, podcasts and video- and photo-sharing sites. Nope … that has...[Elation] Recognition and Progress for Rising Voices
Below is this week’s newsletter to the Rising Voices mailing list. I’m so happy with the progress that Rising Voices has made, however, that I want to share it here as well. I’ll be publishing photos from last night’s event soon. I write...[Translation] New Bloggers Use Poetry to Describe Their Communities, Feelings, Friends
The new bloggers of Rising Voices outreach projects in Colombia, Bolivia, and Bangladesh are more than just up-and-coming citizen journalists. They have also discovered the power of prose to reveal glimpses of the human emotions that bring us together and the local differences that make each of our communities unique.
Getting to Know Global Voices' Latin America Team
Cross-posted at Global Voices Some of the very best weblogs from around Latin America hardly ever receive mention on Global Voices. That’s because their authors are also contributors there and spend most of their time drawing your attention to others’...Perdido en el Siglo … Mundial, Part II
This post is the follow up to this one. If I had more time I would start a new blog. It would be called Osso. Why osso? Because that’s how you used to spell and say bear in spanish. There was a marked difference in the pronunciation between “osso”...Latest Photos
