by Dale Peskin

Voices emerge from conflict in Georgia; Internet sites silenced

Amid the conflict near the Black Sea, come new voices describing the situation on the ground. WordPress has a posted a page with blogs about South Ossetia. On Global Voices, several bloggers describe life in Tbilisi over the past few days. PRI’s The World has produced an excellent background page that explains the conflict in […]

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 by Dale Peskin

Beyond MSM, many views and images of China and Olympics

Like many of you, I’ll be glued to the tube for the Olympics and fresh glimpses of the world’s oldest civilization. Fortunately, there are other ways to look at a four-leaf clover. China has more than 30 million bloggers, by some estimates. A few are political. A few have been imprisoned. Some are unusual, such […]

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