Tag Archives: morocco

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 [...]

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 [...]

Global Voices Summit 2008

Written by jessica. Posted on June 27, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
You can access the live webcast to see what’s being talked about in Budapest. The day started with Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, cofounders of Global Voices, talking a bit about the history of GV and the many offshoots that have followed, including Lingua for tanslation, Rising Voices to bring blogging to beyond the Internet [...]