Raquel Pacheco, aka Bruna Surfistinha
China has Mu Mu and Muzi. England has Belle. Brazil has Bruna.
Similar to Mu Mu and Muzi, who I discuss in this...
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Ok, maybe it's not all that funny, but it did amuse me. John Yunker writes in Global by Design about Montenegro's new top level domain name. (If you're wondering, a top level domain name is the .com, .org, .net, etc. in a Web address). Montenegro's domain name is .me. Yunker imagines some of the potential Web addresses...
Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2007 - 12:04pm
Category: International Information
Besides being accompanied by the above photo, which I find perfectly encapsulates the tension between recognition and anonymity among social networkers, Robert Ness’...
Posted: Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 5:56pm
Category: 2007 Global Plaza
Sue O'Neill Johnson (playing the accordion)
It is with sadness that those of us in the SIG-III community learn of the passing of Sue O'Neil Johnson, one of our members who inspired all of us with her dedication to...
Posted: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - 5:24pm
Category: International Paper Contest
Chinese blogger Mu Mu, from a May 2006 post to her blog
Decisions about when and what to censor can rest on multiple different criteria such...
Posted: Monday, October 1, 2007 - 10:58pm
Category: 2007 Global Plaza
China has 162 million Internet subscribers – 12.3% of the total population of China, but over 50% of the total population of the U.S. And as Internet connectivity and use in China is growing, so too is China’s influence over the Internet. The Associated Press...
Posted: Sunday, September 30, 2007 - 10:34pm
Category: 2007 Global Plaza
Brazilians are passionate about the Internet, and all the social media applications the Internet has made possible. Internet use and social media are pervading a wide range of aspects of life in Brazil, such that even those who do not have Internet access or choose not to participate in social media are frequently aware that the Internet and all its related applications are being inextricably...
Posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 6:43pm
Category: 2007 Global Plaza
Kenya provides a great individual case study of the African blogosphere, as there has been a lot happening there in terms of developing Internet access and localized Kenyan content in 2007. Despite halting progress, The Kenyan government is working on securing more widespread Internet access through an undersea fiberoptic cable, and...
Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 1:05am
Category: 2007 Global Plaza
South Africa seems to have a ton of social networking services – see Uno de Waal’s blog post listing some of them. Yet aside from South Africa, I only know of one other African-born social network, mykenyanspace.com, and even this network is not actually hosted in Kenya....
Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 12:53am
Category: 2007 Global Plaza
Did you know that Americans do not have the largest social networking communities in the world? According to market research by Ipsos, America comes in fifth place in terms of number of people connected to a social network – South Korea comes in first. According to Ipsos,
Leading all other markets in its love...
Posted: Saturday, August 11, 2007 - 11:55pm
Category: 2007 Global Plaza
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