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January 11, 2007

Global Voices on the iPhone...oh, and the world

Global Voices begins a post this way:

We didn't want to have to write this article. As Global Voices‘ Latin America editor/Spanish translator/Digest dude David Sasaki wrote on one of our mailing lists yesterday, "I have low tolerance for the amount of internet bandwidth dedicated to the latest and greatest Apple product. . . ." Searching his Latin America RSS feeds, however, David could find "little else other than excited talk about the Apple iPhone," and several of our other authors and editors reported on similar oohing and aahing coming from their respective blogospheres.

And why wouldn't GV want to cover this? Only because there are some other issues that also matter, including "Freedom of the press and Saddam Hussein in the Moroccan blogosphere," freedom of press under attack in the Philippines, freedom to blog under attack in Iran, the St. Petersburg flood, , the holidays and politics in Bangladesh, how Somalia is roiling Kenya, the life of a ten year old girl in Cambodia who peddles bracelets to tourists ...

All that and more in 24 hours on the site. Global Voices continues to astound. [Tags: globalVoices gv iphone morocco philippines russia iran bangladesh somalia kenya cambodia media ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at January 11, 2007 10:10 AM


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