It’s not very hard to convince people - friends, family, strangers - that Global Voices is amazing and deserving of their support. In fact, not once have I described what I do for a living to anyone and heard the reaction, ‘well, that sounds kinda lame.’ No, it’s always met with boundless enthusiasm.
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As if immigrants to the Western world don’t have enough to worry about with accusations of terrorism and complaints of non-assimilation, they must also endure the frequent criticisms that come from their home country. If they become too involved in the affairs of their home country while abroad than they’re accused of paternalism and arrogance. [...]

It’s hard to believe that it has already been five months since I was sitting in the café courtyard of the Galería de Arte Nacional in Caracas and writing a blog post that I intended to publish that same afternoon. Like so many nearly finished blog posts, however, I never did publish it and it [...]

Picking up the paper this past week and avoiding an article about our southern border would have been like picking up a gallon of prune juice and avoiding the toilet: difficult. As chance would have it, during the media blitz brought on by a couple high-profile surveys and two governors’ declarations of states of emergency, [...]

Imagine if your great-great-great-great-grandfather/mother had a blog. How rad would that be? Any time you wanted you could go and check out what they thought about Napolean or Cortes or what their favorite food was or why they got in fights with their neighbor. How crazy that our great-great-great-great-grandchildren will be able to do that [...]

Sliding Scale Contentment
As I think I’ve mentioned before, Karen was the first blogger I met in person. (Last night I was to meet a group of webloggers here in Monterrey, but sadly the bar we were going to meet at had been closed down for a month.) You would never guess it from her weblog [...]

It’s Sunday morning … and true to the name, the sunlight, roughly eight minutes after leaving its home, is blasting furiously outside. So is the wind. And my honey and I are taking refuge from both in the cool shade of our upstairs bedroom. What are we listening to? Jarabe de Palo, De Vuelta y [...]

El miércoles pasado mi vieja y yo nos fuimos a Plaza Real para ver Voces Inocentes en el día de descuento. Me gusta que aquí hay un día de “dos por uno” y se meten toda la raza que, como nosotros, no aguantan los precios tan altos para solamente ver una película. En Estados Unidos [...]

More than anything, this is an open letter to Rebecca MacKinnon of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society who recently set up BloggerCorps amongst much enthusiasm and applause of fellow bloggers only to see it squander in lack of activity and participation. A couple of days ago she lamented on her own blog that [...]

I want to write both about the incredible progress of the blogosphere these past couple months, but also some problems that all of us bloggers face. I think I’m gonna divide it into two different posts, progress first, problems later.
BOBs
No, not our legal expert Bobby, but the Dutch-based, international Best of Blogs competition has come [...]