Israeli IDF Soldiers Testimonials Taken Out of Context

Several weeks after the Israeli operation in Gaza, Danny Zamir, director of the Yitzhak Rabin military preparatory academy at Oranim College, organized a meeting of his graduates. There they chatted behind closed doors and shared their experience from the operation. A transcript of their conversation was initially published in the College paper, but was picked [...]

Analog Blogging

In Monrovia, Liberia a unique form of journalism exists where the news is written out daily on a chalk board for everyone to read as they pass by. Alfred Sirleaf established his chalkboard news service called “Daily Talk” in May of 2000, when he saw a need for direct, free and accessible reporting. Because of [...]

Flickr Clock

There’s something really wonderful about using the flickr clock interface to browse through people’s moments from around the world. The clock displays only video content and lets you lean back and just click <next> to view another short clip which someone uploaded somewhere around the world.

flickr clock

I love the horizontal timeline below [...]

Neat NYTimes features: comments, synchronized ads

I really do love the <a href=”http://nytimes.com”>NYTimes website</a>. They just seem to truly get it and don’t mind investing in experimentation. The times seems to place the user experience as a priority, willing to explore innovative ideas without thinking only about the business side or strategy. I keep coming back to the site because I [...]

on Obama, Ayers and the inappropriate use of the term “terrorist”

I am deeply disturbed by how easily people use of the word terrorist in the US ever since this “war on terror” began. Listening to the Palin/McCain rhetoric over the past few weeks, I am terrified and angry. Terrified because I see many similarities with the devastating right-wing propaganda generated when I was a teenager [...]

w00t:: My GVO post linked on NYTimes

First of all, I’m stoked that the New York Times indexes and semantically parses Global Voices posts within their Topics pages!! Recognizing the importance of local perspectives in this age of journalism. My most recent piece, found in a popular Israeli online forum, describes a puzzling incident which could have dire consequences for Tzipi Livni’s [...]

GVO in rich media

An interesting thread has been running in the Global Voices List on expanding GVO’s output to include audio content – a daily podcast including a summary of the day’s important posts. What I love about the GVO community is its constant efforts to come up with additional features and possible outputs, all under the big [...]

Phew

Thought they’d keep us in suspense? New York times just updated their headlines as well.

OBAMA CLAIMS NOMINATION:

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US Primaries – time to shut the door!

It is 7pm in Los Angeles. The Associated Press has already published that Obama sealed the Democratic Nomination.

Why are other news outlets lingering with finally putting a finite end to this long and painful campaign?

Ma’ariv, a major Israeli news service, has already publicized that “Hillary Clinton is preparing for the loss: Ready [...]

Ma’ariv Site Redesign

Ma’ariv, one of Israel’s most popular newspapers (both print + web), has gone through a comprehensive site re-design. Its about time they changed their horrid color palette (reds and yellows), to a much cleaner set (grays) with a well structured UI, which actually feels somewhat like nytimes.com.

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