Tag Archives: blogging

What a Difference a Year Makes

Written by jessica. Posted on April 30, 2010. Filed under News. Tagged , , , , , , . 4 Comments.
A pair of hands sign a form.
For Lebanon’s parliamentary elections in June 2009, citizen media hadn’t quite achieved the critical mass it needed to mobilize. True, the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE) mobilized more than 2,000 SMS-enabled monitors and Sharek961 implemented the first instance of the crowdsourced crisis-mapping application Ushahidi, but beyond these interventions and a handful of existing bloggers, [...]

CC-Licensed Post #3: Que pensez-vous des blogs?, via Carpe Diem and Nawaat.org

Written by jessica. Posted on April 3, 2010. Filed under News. Tagged , , , , , , , . No comments.
An abstracted bar graph of poll results
On March 27, blogger Carpe Diem posted analysis of two polls that had been published in the Tunisian newspaper Le Temps. Carpe Diem (hereafter CD) is a member of Nawaat, a trilingual Tunisian collective blog chock-full with coverage of news and politics and rich multimedia content (click on the Nawaat 2.0 Hub in the top [...]

Campaign to Promote Blogging for Political Change

Written by jessica. Posted on April 1, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
A banner ad on Trella.org encouraging people to open blogs
The following is a station identification break from our CC-licensed posts: In his latest YouTube video, Imad Bazzi is promoting his blogging platform Trella.org by highlighting the potential of social media to effect political change in Lebanon. Here’s the video, which starts with a fade in to a grid of faces familiar in Lebanese politics [...]