There are two kinds of shoppers: those who like to spend a lot of money on just a few select purchases and then the bargain shoppers, those who like to fill up the big bags with their 75%-off goods. After my recent admission of shopping in Milan, and now this, you won’t believe that I [...]

Today, sitting on a park bench, digging into my first bite of chicken gyro, half a tomato still hanging from my mouth, I began to grin. And then laugh, first on the inside, and then noticeably so. Very noticeable. The laugh turned into a guffaw, turned into hooting, howling, knee-slapping, tee-heeing, can’t-hold-it-in cracking up. Right [...]

After I sleep for 50 hours in a row, I’m going to have lots and lots to say about all of the fascinating conversations that have taken place here at the Global Voices Summit in Budapest. For now, however, I leave you with a ten minute video that tries to encompass much of what the [...]

Originally published on the Global Voices Summit blog.
While the first session of the 2008 Global Voices Summit focused on how internet censorship works in Belarus, Japan, Egypt, and Pakistan, and how activists have responded to those limitations, the second session was specifically focused on how censorship affects bloggers and citizen media. It was liveblogged by [...]