On Monday I'll be appearing with Global Voices co-founder Ethan Zuckerman as guests on the Yi-Tan tech community's weekly tech call. It will start at 1:30pm EST / 10:30am Pacific.
Information about calling in and participating on the IRC are on the wiki here. (The IRC chat is on #yitan at irc.freenode.net) Lisa Stone will be moderating. Here's the very nice announcement sent to the Y-Tan community list:
- "Images from Palestine: School Book" posted by Haitham Sabbah
- "Egypt: The Massacre of the Sudanese Refugees" by Mostafa Hussein
- "No Longer a Bridge to Caracas" by Iria Puyosa
You won't find these stories by tuning in to the BBC or to CNN. In fact, if you search Google News, chances are that you won't even find a story in the mainstream media about the citizen journalism site that delivered these stories. Yet Global Voices Online is an award-winning news destination of choice for more than 300,000 international visitors a month.
Lisa Stone is looking forward to guest-hosting Monday's Yi-Tan call, in which we'll talk what's next for Global Voices Online. Called "the United Nations of blogging" by The Guardian, Global Voices reports on arguably more countries than the BBC, leveraging cheap, easy blogging technology to write about bloggers around the world. A little over a year since it launched, the site gets 300,000 visitors a month. In a conversation with co-founders Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman one month after their second annual summit, we'll ask:
- What does it mean to be a "conversation community"? Are you an alternative world news agency? A stage for global activism? An international collection of diaries? Will your site always be English only? Take us down the road three to five years.
- How does this "conversation community" take its next steps, when so many bloggers live in countries that lack a free press? How about when many of these countries are at war?
- What do you want and/or need from the first world and why? Money? Attention? Feedback?
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