Stories
July 5th, 2008
USA: Al Jazeera Blackout? 
· 21:25
When Burlington Telecom, owned by the small city of Burlington, Vermont (population 39,000), decided to carry Al Jazeera English, debate sparked amongst its residents, leading some groups to protest for its removal. Bloggers in the city and around the world have jumped on the story. 0 comments · »»
June 14th, 2008
Japan: Reflections on the Akiba Massacre (Part 1)
· 11:29
When all the dust had settled and the knife rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district last Sunday, which took the lives of seven people and left 17 injured, had come to a close, many were left wondering what it all really meant. In this post, bloggers offer their perspectives about what may have driven Tomohiro Kato to kill and injure so many people. 1 comment · »»
June 10th, 2008
Japan: The problems facing Japan's IT industry
· 12:57
June 8th, 2008
Japan: Popularity of Q&A services
· 05:54
June 2nd, 2008
Japan: Mixi and Anonymity
· 15:44
Mixi is Japan's most popular social networking service, with over ten million users. A new competitor has entered the scene, however, with Facebook having just having been localized to Japanese. One blogger comments on the differences between these two SNS and on the problems with Mixi's culture of anonymity, criticizing its reliance on the illusion of "conscience". 1 comment · »»
May 30th, 2008
Kazakhstan: Politics and Tractors
· 14:55
May 28th, 2008
China: Chinese Red Cross on corruption watch
· 17:38
Bloggers continue to monitor earthquake corruption, as they wait for the truth to come out as to why so many school buildings collapsed so easily in this month's massive earthquake.
The parents of children who died, though, aren't waiting. On Sunday a group from Mianzhu city took photos of their children ... 82 comments · »»
May 24th, 2008
Brazil: Can the Amazon problem be solved with new management?
· 00:42
Changing the command in a Brazilian Ministry used to be a domestic affair, but the resignation of the renowned rainforest defender Marina Silva from the Environmental Ministry has sparked global reactions. Ms. Silva's replacement was quickly announced by President Lula, through the designation of Carlos Minc, former environmental secretary of ... 0 comments · »»
Links about Business
July 5th, 2008
Just over a month until the big games, Fons Tuinstra at China Herald takes a look around Beijing as the city prepares itself in ‘Olympic shutdown gets into places'.
July 4th, 2008
July 3rd, 2008
“When Israelis and Palestinian put away the fumes of mistrust and fear and create a reasonable environment of normality and flowing reciprocal good feelings, then the heaven is the limit,” writes Shlomo of the Korzacsol blog. Palestinians and Israelis from the respective towns of Ramallah and Modiin have teamed up to found G.ho.st (short for Global Host Operating System).
21 Square and Vexed Bermoothes wonder whether the high cost of the Bermuda Music Festival was justified.
July 1st, 2008
Barbados Underground comments on the first ever Caribbean Tourism Summit, which comes at a time of great challenges in the regional tourism market.
LJ user yustas posts a photo tribute to Moscow's Detskiy Mir (”Children's World”) toy store, which closed down for renovations yesterday, for the next three years.
June 27th, 2008
Sean's Russia Blog reviews media coverage of the “eXile Affair.”
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