Mozambique will vote to elect a President on October 28. Even before this year’s Presidential campaign officially began in Mozambique, new opposition party Movimento Democrático de Moçambique (Democratic Movement of Mozambique, or MDM) signaled it would take from the “Obama” model of online mobilization. The party set up a Wiki site and a tweet, began […]
Michael Jackson’s Death Brings Renewed Interest In Child Bonding
The late Michael Jackson was once vocal about the abuse he endured during his childhood years by his punitive father, but his daughter’s words at his memorial in Los Angeles, served as a testament that Jackson appeared to have broken the cycle of abuse as a parent. "Ever since I was born, Daddy has been […]
Cyber-activism an extended mission of journalism: Fredrick Noronha
Goa-based journalist cum cyber-activist Fredrick Noronha sees himself primarily as an info-activist. His goal is to dig out information that could bring about a greater degree of social justice in societies. He is interested in issues like the Right to Information, cyber-activism, information-activism, Web 2.0 tools that create more space for expression of views online, […]
Review on Google’s new competitor Microsoft Bing
The new search engine Bing by Microsoft is live now in its beta testing mode.The news of this search engine was all over the internet from the past few weeks and it was unveiled by Steve Ballmer,CEO,Microsoft on 28th May,2009 and went live on June 1st 2009. Bing now replaces the Live Search which was […]
Trinidad & Tobago: Where’s the Integrity?
Transparency and good governance have been popular topics in the Caribbean blogosphere of late, thanks to stories on financial impropriety, concerns over massive spending of taxpayers’ dollars and anxiety over freedom of the press. The latest debacle over integrity (or lack thereof?) comes from Trinidad and Tobago, where, in the last few weeks, a second […]
India Votes for No Change: Indian Bloggers & Twitter Users React to #IndiaVotes09 Results
The results for the month long Indian Lok Sabha elections are out and India has voted back the incumbent Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) into power with a decisive verdict, surprising many observers. As I write this post, the results for 480 out of the 543 seats have been declared. The Congress is leading in […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- …
- 12
- Next Page »