Archive for the 'Digital Divide' Category



Look Sexy, Help Train More Bolivian Bloggers


h1 Posted 2 months, 1 week ago in the wee hours by oso

People resort to pathetic tactics to attract members of the opposite sex. Look what was witnessed not long ago in Italy:

Can you believe it? All that care - the dog food, the pooper-scooper-upper, the chewed-up shoes - just to initiate a little public flirtation.
What is most absurd about all of this? That it can be [...]

(Really) Breaking Outside of the Echo Chamber


h1 Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago around lunchtime by oso

The most difficult challenge I’ve encountered so far with Rising Voices hasn’t been training new communities with little online experience how to effectively use new media tools like blogs, podcasts and video- and photo-sharing sites. Nope … that has turned out to be surprisingly easy. In fact, many of the Rising Voices participants like Taslima [...]

Netsquared Live Broadcast


h1 Posted 1 year, 4 months ago in the early morning by oso

I’m at Netsquared right now and will post my thoughts about it soon, but for now, Beth Kanter is taking care of coverage both on Twitter and at Ustream.tv:

Right now Bradley Horowitz is talking about Yahoo’s social impact. (But don’t forget …)

Contextually Searching the Global Blogosphere


h1 Posted 3 years ago in the wee hours by oso

Honestly, I usually try to stay away from these things. Nothing seems more redundant to me than blogging about blogging - especially since 50% of the blogosphere has that covered anyway - but these are some thoughts that have been mulling around in my head for a while now and it’s time for me to [...]

Oso Gets Reactionary


h1 Posted 3 years, 1 month ago around lunchtime by oso

A shame what’s happening in New Orleans. But let’s be honest, at least all the white people got out right? David Brooks says it pretty well. And while we’re all being honest here, let’s have a listen to what former CIA official Reuel Marc Gerecht had to say on Meet The Press about women and [...]

Blog Day 2005


h1 Posted 3 years, 1 month ago late at night by oso

Allow myself to introduce (click on thumbnails):

After having left him for dead at an African train station, the least I could do is link to this blogging superstar from Santiago, Chile. Rivaling his friend, the Chilean senator Fernando Flores, Leo Prieto is probably the closest thing to an online celebrity that South America has. And [...]

Globaphilia Is Better Than Pedophilia


h1 Posted 3 years, 1 month ago around lunchtime by oso

Global village is a term, coined by Marshall McLuhan in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy, describing how electronic mass media collapse space and time barriers in human communication, enabling people to interact and live on a global scale. In this sense, the globe has been turned into a village by the electronic mass media.1
There are [...]