So ... what is this Global Voices thing I keep referring to on this blog? Ethan Zuckerman, its co-founder tells you in this to the point video interview.
5/23/07
Join the Debate on Darfur - Participez au débat sur le Darfour 5/24/07
On Thursday May 24, 2007, starting at 930am EST, Reuters will be holding a Newsmaker event on the topic of the crisis in Darfur. The event will take place in New York and will follow the usual Newsmaker format of a panel discussion followed by a Q&A session.
Read More about how to participate at the Global Voices website.
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Le jeudi 24 mai 2007 à 9h30 ( 15h30 heure de Paris), l’agence Reuters organise une conférence “Newsmakers” sur la crise du Darfour. Elle aura lieu à New-York et se déroulera selon le format habituel des conférences Newsmakers , avec une table ronde d’experts, suivie par un séance de questions-réponses.
Comment participer. Du site de Global Voices en Français.
Voici des informations sur la conférence.
5/17/07
Welcome New Kiskeácity Subscribers!
I'd like to send a warm welcome to all new kiskeácity subscribers! I have been busy with GV Lingua and making sure a loved one remains healthy after a pretty bad fall but I did get to notice that quite a few of you subscribed through the feeds and via email. Thanks and sorry you subscribed during such an awkward silence. I'll be back and ready to attack very soon. Promise.
Ciao!
Ciao!
4/11/07
Global Voices Got a Makeover!
Check out the new Global Voices site. The redesign was launched on Monday. The site is much airier and more streamlined. The front page has less content which means that you will have to go look for what you want in the country, author and topic "shelves". Georgia sums up the changes. Here is the Americas page. And here is my new page.
4/10/07
Crossing Bridges
So I was quiet on this blog for a whole week. That doesn't mean I didn't take in sights and sounds worth sharing. For instance, I the consummate Brooklynite got to venture up to Harlem for a special poetry/performance art open mike, at the legendary St Nick's Pub no less. The event, St. Nick's Pub Down and Dirty Talent Extravaganza, (yeah, a mouthful) takes place there on Thursday nights. I had to get dragged up there ... but it was worth it. See for yourself. I posted the pictures and annotated them for you on Flickr.
Technorati Tags: st. nick's pub, harlem, poetry, new york
4/8/07
Back to India: My Delhi Travel Tips
You may or may not remember my blogging about GVDelhi2006, Global Voices' annual summit which took place in India last December. It was a wonderful experience for which I still have unpublished pictures but just as I was forgetting I still owed them to the blog and to the world, GV colleague Khamla Batt posted a video chat she had with me during the conference on her blog If You Go To. In it, I rave about the markets and the shawls that I spent much time praising here but also talk about taxi cab woes... You may not care but I think this is some sort of debut for me. Yep, video debut. :-)
Technorati Tags: delhi, india, dilli haat, gk-1 m market, lodi gardens
Technorati Tags: delhi, india, dilli haat, gk-1 m market, lodi gardens
4/6/07
Vagina Monologues in Creole Photos
I've been meaning to share pictures of the V-Day Vagina Monologues in Creole event that I attended at the Brooklyn Museum on March 17th. Here they are. The event was organized by Dwa Fanm and featured Monologues author Eve Ensler and Edwidge Danticat, among other wonderful performers. I will come back with highlights as soon as I get a chance. For now I'm annotating the pictures in Flickr so you can know who's who. Enjoy!
Technorati Tags: vagina monologues, eve ensler, edwidge danticat, rosemonde pierre-louis, farah tannis, brooklyn museum, v-day, dwa fanm
3/22/07
I Give You Global Voices en Français for Francophonia Day
March 20th was la Journée Internationale de la Francophonie (Francophonia Day) and I had this to say on Global Voices for the occasion. Please please please check out Global Voices en Français and tell your interested friends when you get a chance. (Lire le billet en Français à ... Global Voices en Français, traduit par Claire Ulrich.) And please contact me in the comment section to volunteer if you are a French-English bilingual.
Today is March 20th was Francophonia Day. About 50 French-speaking countries and territories, some belonging to the Organisation Mondiale de la Francophonie and others not, will reflect on what it means to have French as a language --often alongside others. (Not to worry we will tell you what the bloggers said as soon as they've said it.)
At Global Voices, this day has special significance as well. One year ago, I was barely getting my feet wet as a novice Francophonia Editor, translating into English blurbs from the blogs of French-speaking countries who don't get much coverage in other media. Today as Global Voices Lingua team leader, I and wonderful francophones like India-based Haitian blogger Pascale Doresca, French journalist and Le Monde contributor Claire Ulrich and Malagasy blogger and GV author Lova Rakotomalala have been translating in the other direction, i.e. from English to French at Global Voices en Français. The goal is to bring more and more Francophones online into the global conversation. By translating Global Voices content into French, we hope to do just that.
See for yourself, the Global Voices en Français site is a work in progress but volunteer translators have been generating French-speaking GV content for Francophones for over a month. If you are a French-English bilingual, please contact us to join the team at francophonia [at] globalvoicesonline [dot] org.
Flashback. Inspired by Global Voices Latin-America Editor David Sasaki's workshop on GV and language at the GV 2006 Summit in Delhi, a group of francophone bloggers approached Global Voices co-founders Ethan Zuckerman, Rebecca MacKinnon and Portnoy Zheng about starting a Francophone GV page similar to Portnoy's then year old GVO China site over lunch at Delhi Day 2. Other language communities expressed interest and Project Lingua was born.
Lingua, which is still in its infancy, brings you more than just GV en Français. It comes in:
-Bangla http://bn.globalvoicesonline.org/
-Chinese (simplified) http://zh.globalvoicesonline.org/hans/
-Chinese (traditional) http://zh.globalvoicesonline.org/hant/
-French http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/
-Portuguese http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/
-Russian http://ru.globalvoicesonline.org/
-Spanish http://es.globalvoicesonline.org/
Please join me and the whole Lingua team by contributing your language skills to any of the above groups.
Francophonia Day is truly a multilingual day for us at Global Voices.
At Global Voices, this day has special significance as well. One year ago, I was barely getting my feet wet as a novice Francophonia Editor, translating into English blurbs from the blogs of French-speaking countries who don't get much coverage in other media. Today as Global Voices Lingua team leader, I and wonderful francophones like India-based Haitian blogger Pascale Doresca, French journalist and Le Monde contributor Claire Ulrich and Malagasy blogger and GV author Lova Rakotomalala have been translating in the other direction, i.e. from English to French at Global Voices en Français. The goal is to bring more and more Francophones online into the global conversation. By translating Global Voices content into French, we hope to do just that.
See for yourself, the Global Voices en Français site is a work in progress but volunteer translators have been generating French-speaking GV content for Francophones for over a month. If you are a French-English bilingual, please contact us to join the team at francophonia [at] globalvoicesonline [dot] org.
Flashback. Inspired by Global Voices Latin-America Editor David Sasaki's workshop on GV and language at the GV 2006 Summit in Delhi, a group of francophone bloggers approached Global Voices co-founders Ethan Zuckerman, Rebecca MacKinnon and Portnoy Zheng about starting a Francophone GV page similar to Portnoy's then year old GVO China site over lunch at Delhi Day 2. Other language communities expressed interest and Project Lingua was born.
Lingua, which is still in its infancy, brings you more than just GV en Français. It comes in:
-Bangla http://bn.globalvoicesonline.org/
-Chinese (simplified) http://zh.globalvoicesonline.org/hans/
-Chinese (traditional) http://zh.globalvoicesonline.org/hant/
-French http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/
-Portuguese http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/
-Russian http://ru.globalvoicesonline.org/
-Spanish http://es.globalvoicesonline.org/
Please join me and the whole Lingua team by contributing your language skills to any of the above groups.
Francophonia Day is truly a multilingual day for us at Global Voices.
Technorati Tags: journée internationale de la francophonie, francophonie, global voices en français, lingua, claire ulrich, lova rakotomalala, pascale doresca, bangla, russski, portugues, french, chinese, español
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