HW 11: "Global Voices: For the Good and The Ugly"

The blog that I chose to view that Rebecca MacKinnon mentions in her interview with Kline and Burnstein in Blog! Is Global Voices at http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/. The blog looks like it is very well made and it seems to be run or created by a professional web designer. People blog from all over the world, especially from countries in the Middle East and Asia that control what their people can and cannot say on the Internet. The style of writing is conversational and straightforward. The topics that people blog about are corrupt governments and officials. Also many blog about the oppression of certain minority groups and the people of certain countries that are being constrained by their administrations. I believe that the Global Voices blog as it now exists still corresponds to MacKinnion's view of it in her interview in Blog! quite accurately. The website does a great job of organizing all of the blogs and categorizing them all into different topic categories and world regions. MacKinnion in her interview hoped that this blog could link people from one country to the next and create more awareness and understanding between individuals about their differences and similarities. I believe that Global Voices does do this concept much justice. I can easily maneuver around the site and read about Ramadan in Libya or the marginalization of the world's indigenous people. I am able to learn about breaking news and stories in struggling countries that generally would have been overlooked by the mass media. HERE MANY WHO ARE LOYAL TO THEIR GOVERNMENT WOULD PROBABLY OBJECT THAT it is not acceptable or law abiding to go against your countries views and contradict them. To have a group of people that object to the their government makes it difficult for others who follow the rules to maintain a normal life style. I am sure that citizens, who accept and respect their higher official’s choices, would very much like their opposers to not blog negatively about the way their country is run. Blogging is creating much controversy between the people who have differing views about their country. With the growing number of blogs that are questioning their government, the larger the gap is becoming between people on seeing at a mutual stand point.