Tag Archives: free speech

San Francisco Treats

Written by jessica. Posted on January 18, 2011. Filed under News. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . 3 Comments.
The Google Street sign in Mountain View, California.
SMEX spent last week in San Francisco, California, just about the center of the universe for social media. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and a myriad of other social media giants and upstarts all call the city or its Silicon Valley surroundings home. We went as part of the lead-up to a new project, called [...]

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 [...]

This Blog Is Going on Strike!

Written by jessica. Posted on September 12, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
To protest the arrest and sentencing of Moroccan blogger Mohammed Erraji, bloggers worldwide are putting their blogs on strike for 24 hours on Monday, September 15, the night before Erraji’s appeal is heard. We will join the strike to show solidarity for bloggers and journalists and every person’s right to free speech and self-expression as [...]