Global Voices Online

Social Science in the Caucasus posts more details, including a video, on Creative Commons and comments on the importance of introducing the licensing concept to the South Caucasus. My Caucasus Knot also weighs in on the significance of promoting Creative Commons in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Mark Mardell's musings on Serbia's future - at Euroblog.

ttgapers.com reports that Jamaican dancehall artist Buju Banton “is pleading with fellow…entertainers to clean up their lyrics in order to stem the social decay that is not only present in Jamaica but most of the Caribbean countries where the music is very popular.”

Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp explores the question of how to use allusions in creative writing.

Belgrade and Beyond writes about “Eurovision 2008 in Elbonia & 5th Museum night” in Serbia's capital.

Lyndon of Scraps of Moscow posts two informative and insightful entries on the complex politics and other dimensions of May 9 in Russia - here and here.

All Kinds of Everything comments on the soundcheck by Armenia's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, Sirusho. Although reporting that her initial soundcheck was “absolutely dreadful,” the blogger says that it improved although the young singer still had problems with the high notes.

Haitian blogger kiskeácity notices that “there appears to be yet another calypso anthem to Barack.”