"Bloggers Shrink the Planet"
Quinn Norton of Wired was on hand for last weekend's Global Voices Summit in Delhi. While we've read the takes from GV co-founders Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, and GV affiliates Nathan Hamm, Sameer Padania and David Sasaki, the Wired News article, "Bloggers Shrink the Planet," takes on the conference from an outsider's perspective. It reads:
"...Last weekend's conference had the feel of a miniature United Nations, with laptop-toting attendees from nearly every continent gathered on the tiers of a New Delhi convention center, each sitting at their own small desk, many wearing native dress. Like any room full of bloggers, the meeting had no shortage of trivial bickering, backstabbing, moral grandstanding or long-wrought recriminations. But the bloggers stayed and they worked, because some of them had left their family and their friends to live their lives in exile, and some of them were trying to save a continent from poverty and tearing itself apart, and some of them just wanted to be aggregated into something larger than themselves.
Once seen as primarily English, usually American, and often personal or geeky, the blogosphere today mostly resembles this room -- a noisy, transnational pastiche of culture and language. According to Technorati, English posts make up less than a third of all blogs today, while Chinese and Japanese blogging, for example, makes up 43 percent..."
The article continues over at Wired News.
Photo by Jase, some rights reserved.
"...Last weekend's conference had the feel of a miniature United Nations, with laptop-toting attendees from nearly every continent gathered on the tiers of a New Delhi convention center, each sitting at their own small desk, many wearing native dress. Like any room full of bloggers, the meeting had no shortage of trivial bickering, backstabbing, moral grandstanding or long-wrought recriminations. But the bloggers stayed and they worked, because some of them had left their family and their friends to live their lives in exile, and some of them were trying to save a continent from poverty and tearing itself apart, and some of them just wanted to be aggregated into something larger than themselves.
Once seen as primarily English, usually American, and often personal or geeky, the blogosphere today mostly resembles this room -- a noisy, transnational pastiche of culture and language. According to Technorati, English posts make up less than a third of all blogs today, while Chinese and Japanese blogging, for example, makes up 43 percent..."
The article continues over at Wired News.
Photo by Jase, some rights reserved.