[Video] Shifting into Second
I’ve been back in the United States for four days now, but I still feel like I’m stuck in first gear, always ready to take a nap but never able to fall asleep. The end of December is, in many ways, both exciting and challenging. I need to wrap up all the...Five Years of Global Voices
Five years ago I boarded a flight from San Diego to Boston to attend the 2004 Internet & Society conference at the Berkman Center. This was just a month after George Bush won the 2004 election and so there was an element of group therapy to many of the panel...Interview with Elena Ignatova of Metamorphosis
Here’s my latest Global Voices celebrity profile – this time Elena Ignatova who covers Macedonia on Global Voices, is in charge of Global Voices in Macedonian, and works for the Metamorphosis Foundation, which seeks to seeks to enhance the use of...The Ethics and Responsibility of Paying Attention
The World Blogging Forum proved to be even more surreal than Internet Hungary. (More on that later in a separate post.) We were only give the topics we were to speak about upon arrival, and I was asked to speak about “ethics and responsibility.” What...![[Authenticity] An Interview with Veronica Khokhlova](https://i0.wp.com/el-oso.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/3844045504_2fa980eb4d.jpg?w=425)
[Authenticity] An Interview with Veronica Khokhlova
It has been a difficult few weeks for me – one of those times where I wish I could just skip ahead to the next chapter. But life doesn’t work that way. No skipping allowed. So while I’d like to be exploring the streets of Kyiv, taking photographs,...
Summary of Cloud Intelligence Symposium
This week I’m trying to put some ending punctuation on all the fragments of projects I’ve left scattered over the past couple months before setting my sights toward new projects for November and December. I received a lot of kind and charitable feedback...![[Translation] Global Voices' Project Lingua: A complementary and alternative perspective to traditional media](https://i0.wp.com/farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2641356707_a55a75c8d9.jpg?w=425)
[Translation] Global Voices' Project Lingua: A complementary and alternative perspective to traditional media
The following is my translation of Paula Gonzalo’s interview with Juan Arellano about the Lingua Project on Global Voices. Links have been changed to their English-language equivalents when possible. Juan Arellano is one of the bloggers who, beginning in 2007,...
Global Voices and Foko on the BBC
Georgia and Ivan were on BBC’s Pods & Blogs show a couple days ago discussing the past, present, and future of Global Voices. I have made a track of just their segment in order to save my esteemed readers from having to listen to a piece on virtual guide...Open Translation Tools 2009
On September 19, 2005 a tall, dark, and handsome Taiwanese blogger who goes by the strange name of “Portnoy” decided that he would start translating select blog posts from Global Voices into Chinese. His first translation was of a post by Indonesian...Latest Photos
