Archivo etiqueta «Blogs»
By Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian-born writer and lecturer on Arab and Muslim issues (THE WASHINGTON POST, 07/08/10):
Khaled Said is not the first Egyptian whom police allegedly beat to death. But his death has sparked a virtual revolution that is affecting Egypt’s tightly controlled society.
Said, a 28-year-old Egyptian businessman, was brutally beaten, his family and activists say, by two plainclothes police officers on June 6. An Interior Ministry autopsy claimed that Said suffocated after swallowing a bag of drugs he tried to hide from police. But a photograph of a shattered body that his family confirmed was his … Seguir leyendo
Por Jorge Edwards, escritor chileno, premio Cervantes en 1999 (EL PAÍS, 15/04/10):
Era el título de uno de los libros de Violeta Quevedo, seudónimo que ocultaba a dos hermanas escribidoras, ingenuas, en cierto modo ajenas a este mundo, pero buenas observadoras de la realidad chilena de los años cincuenta y sesenta. Me parece recordarlas, delgadas, huesudas, de boinas y calcetines de lana gruesa, llenando modestas papeletas de depósito en las oficinas de un banco del centro de Santiago. “Violeta por lo humilde, declaró una de ellas a la prensa de la época, Quevedo por lo que veo…”. Recordé a … Seguir leyendo
By Xiao Qiang, director of China Internet Project and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley (THE GUARDIAN, 26/03/10):
Han Han is a 28-year-old bestselling author, racing driver and blogger who is a star of Chinese cyberspace. He is also one of the most outspoken critics of government censorship, and his blogposts are often deleted by censors. Nevertheless, his main blog has over 300m hits. In an online poll Han Han ran recently on his blog about a corrupt official, 210,000 people voted. Yet it is not just Han Han’s words that … Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Goytisolo, escritor (EL PAÍS, 22/11/09):
Hace unos días, recibí la visita del bloguero Pat, cuya página web figura al parecer entre las más consultadas de España. Había leído en la prensa que escribo mis paparruchas con un bolígrafo de un euro. ¿Es cierto, preguntó, o se trata de una invención del periodista? Desdichadamente, le dije, es la pura verdad.
Su rostro expresó al punto una mezcla de asombro y de conmiseración: ¿cómo se las arregla usted para enviar sus manuscritos a los editores y al diario en el que colabora? Le expliqué que, según las circunstancias, recurría … Seguir leyendo
Carlos Lauría es el coordinador senior del Programa de las Américas del Comité para la Protección de Periodistas de Nueva York (CPJ, por sus siglas en inglés). María Salazar Ferro es investigadora asociada senior del Programa de las Américas (EL PAÍS, 21/09/09):
Una comunidad de blogueros, tan vibrante como entusiasta, está abriendo un nuevo espacio para que los ciudadanos cubanos expresen ideas y opiniones, en general ignoradas por la prensa oficial, mientras establecen vínculos cada vez más estrechos con la comunidad internacional, desafiando así el cerrojo a la libertad de expresión que domina al socialismo cubano.
La tarea de los … Seguir leyendo
By Tom Parker, the executive director of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/09/07):
Americans might be forgiven for thinking they have heard everything there is to say about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University, but the story occupied Iranian bloggers at least as much as it dominated the American news cycle. Although Iranian authorities have introduced laws requiring citizens to register their blogs and Web sites with the government, Persian is the 10th most widely used language on blogs worldwide, according to Technorati, the blog-tracking service.
Despite official harassment and intimidation, Iranian blogs remain … Seguir leyendo
Por Antonio Elorza, catedrático de Ciencia Política (EL PAÍS, 20/07/07):
El debate protagonizado por John F. Kennedy y Richard Nixon en las elecciones presidenciales norteamericanas de 1959 suele ser citado como ejemplo de la primera vez en que la televisión interviene de modo decisivo a la hora de determinar un resultado político. Lo cierto es que sólo unos meses antes, el 16 de julio, ese genio de la comunicación que es Fidel Castro había dado ya el aldabonazo de convertir la televisión en palanca de poder, nada menos que ejecutando un golpe de Estado desde la pantalla, con el … Seguir leyendo
By Jonathan Freedland (THE GUARDIAN, 10/04/07):
So you’re at a public meeting on, say, the war in Iraq and the main speaker has just sat down. Someone in the audience rises to declare the speaker is talking crap, but that’s typical of him because he knows nothing and it’s a scandal that he’s paid for the rubbish he turns out. A second man agrees that the speech was trash, but tells the first man he should crawl back under his stone because he never says anything worth listening to. A third man wonders why the speaker didn’t mention Israel, especially … Seguir leyendo
Por José Luis Oriuela, profesor en la Universidad de Navarra y autor del blog eCuaderno (LA VANGUARDIA, 29/10/06):
Los weblogs son sitios web autogestionados por sus propios autores, compuestos por entradas individuales llamadas anotaciones o historias que se organizan en la página siguiendo una cronología inversa. Las herramientas de gestión de blogs asignan de forma automatizada a cada entrada su fecha y hora de publicación, así como una dirección URL permanente que facilita las referencias y enlaces externos. La mayor parte de los blogs permite a los lectores comentar cada anotación y, de forma creciente, compartirla con otros usuarios … Seguir leyendo
By Ben Macintyre (THE TIMES, 20/10/06):
THE ARMY OF BLOGGERS came in their thousands. They came to muse, complain, laugh, observe and, above all, to record their lives. They came, at the invitation of the National Trust, to document what happened (or did not happen) to them on October 17, 2006, a single, arbitrary day in the nation’s existence. Some entries were fascinating; the majority were fascinatingly dull. A few bloggers were famous, but most were not. This is autobiography as DIY, all-encompassing CCTV in words.
The One Day in History experiment demonstrated that for all our concerns about educational … Seguir leyendo
By Robert J. Samuelson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 20/09/06):
Call it the ExhibitioNet. It turns out that the Internet has unleashed the greatest outburst of mass exhibitionism in human history. Everyone may not be entitled, as Andy Warhol once suggested, to 15 minutes of fame. But everyone is entitled to strive for 15 minutes — or 30, 90 or much more. We have blogs, “social networking” sites (MySpace.com, Facebook), YouTube and all their rivals. Everything about these sites is a scream for attention. Look at me. Listen to me. Laugh with me — or at me.
This is no longer fringe … Seguir leyendo
By Bernard Haykel, an associate professor of Islamic studies at New York University, is the author of ’’Revival and Reform in Islam.’’ and Saud al-Sarhan, a Saudi Arabia-based analyst of Islamist groups (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 12/09/06):
NEARLY every organ of the American news media marked the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11 yesterday. But the Web sites affiliated with many of militant jihadism’s top thinkers, including Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi and Sulayman al-Alwan, remained silent. That shouldn’t surprise us: the Salafi strain of Islam, to which most jihadis subscribe, prohibits commemorating anniversaries.
Celebrations other than the holidays of Id … Seguir leyendo
By E. J. Dionne Jr. (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/04/06):
When old regulations meet new technologies, there is bound to be confusion.
Last month the Federal Election Commission issued a rule regulating political activity on the Internet. To see how the new rule was reported, I fired up one of my favorite search engines, and what did I find?
One headline summarized the new rule as follows: “Proposed FEC Rules Would Exempt Most Political Activity on Internet.” Another headline read: “FEC Rules Would Regulate Paid Internet Ads.”
So which is it, more regulation or less? The best headline summarizing the controversy … Seguir leyendo
By Arianna Huffington, a US nationally syndicated columnist, author of 10 books and co-founder and editor of the HuffingtonPost.com (THE GUARDIAN, 14/03/06):
I am frequently asked if the rise of the blogosphere is the death knell for Big Media. My answer is that Big Media isn’t dead; it’s critically ill but will actually be saved by the transfusion of passion and immediacy of the blogging revolution. Blogging and the new media are transforming the way news and information are disseminated, as evidenced by the number of traditional media outlets, like this one, dipping their collective toe into the blog … Seguir leyendo
Blog, bla, bla. José María Pozuelo Yvancos, catedrático de la Universidad de Murcia (ABC, 29/12/05).