22-year-old Janaki Purushe graced CNN.com’s front page today, lending the news site a rare hipster patina with her dayglo pink piped shorts, keylime flats and violet hoodie. But the real style icon was in the background: her bike. Janaki Purushe is an iReporter– a citizen journalist for CNN’s participatory platform iReport. iReporters are like GroundReporters, […]
Blogger’s Opinion About “Nsima” Angers Malawians
by Victor Kaonga A recent post on Malawi‘s staple food nsima has raised debate on how much freedom one can have in expressing themselves in blogs. The reactions by mostly Malawian readers have demonstrated that some restraint, responsibility and sensitivity is needed especially if one is writing about something that others may consider very […]
Blogging for democracy around the world
by Hamid Tehrani Antony Loewenstein is a Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger. He is currently writing a book on “Democracy and Blogging” and recently traveled to Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and China to meet with bloggers. Q: Would you introduce yourself and your new book project? As a journalist and author in Australia, I […]
Travel Journals & why you should keep one
My first backpacking trip I kept a journal every day. I noted my impressions of what I saw, what the city smelt like, the colors of the leaves on the trees, the sounds on the street… minor details about a major event. The journal wasn’t actually for myself but for my mother who had long […]
A blogger is running from Imola to Venice for a bet
An evening with your friends drinking a famous beer can bring about a bet to win. Some evenings before May 21st, a 25 y.o. guy from Rome, Gianluca, was sure the upcoming Heineken Jammin’ Festival will take place in Imola as every past years, but his friends strongly disagreed and rather confirmed Venice from June […]
The Rise of the Gray Gapper
“We spent the morning looking for a cafe with wi-fi” and “I couldn’t eat for three days after a dodgy supper”. You would be forgiven for thinking that those quotes came from a student on a gap year, but the woman behind the words is 65 year old travel blogger and ‘gray gapper’ Lesley Norris. […]
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