Listening to Global Voices
Yi-Tan Weekly Tech Call #66
Monday, January 9, 2006
- "Images from Palestine: School Book" posted by Haitham Sabbah
- "Egypt: The Massacre of the Sudanese Refugees" by Mostafa Hussein
- "No Longer a Bridge to Caracas" by Iria Puyosa
You won't find these stories by tuning in to the BBC or to CNN. In fact, if you search Google News, chances are that you won't even find a story in the mainstream media about the citizen journalism site that delivered these stories. Yet Global Voices Online is an award-winning news destination of choice for more than 300,000 international visitors a month.
Lisa Stone is looking forward to guest-hosting Monday's Yi-Tan call, in which we'll talk what's next for Global Voices Online. Called "the United Nations of blogging" by The Guardian, Global Voices reports on arguably more countries than the BBC, leveraging cheap, easy blogging technology to write about bloggers around the world. A little over a year since it launched, the site gets 300,000 visitors a month. In a conversation with co-founders Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman one month after their second annual summit, we'll ask:
Please add your questions below or email Lisa at lisa.l.stone@gmail.com. See you Monday at 10:30am Pacific, 1:30pm Eastern time