Digital Caribbean

links for 2008-11-07

Newseum | Today's Front Pages | Archive | Gallery View

Gallery of newspaper front pages announcing the Obama win.

(tags: newspapers media newsmedia obama)

¶ Posted 07 November 2008 † Georgia § Links ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2008-11-06

Project Lingua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia entry for Global Voices Lingua translation project

(tags: translation globalvoices wikipedia)

¶ Posted 06 November 2008 † Georgia § Links ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2008-10-12

BBC - Radio - Podcasts - Global Arts and Entertainment - "Burial at Thebes"

Globalarts: 07 Oct 08 The two poets Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott have joined forces with the composer Dominique Le Gendre to produce an opera. We visit the production in rehearsal as they prepare for its world premiere. Also this week an interview with writer Paul Theroux, and the verdict on new Italian mob drama Gomorra. Duration: 24mins | File Size: 12MB

(tags: opera poetry derekwalcott seamusheaney dominiquelegendre caribbean trinidad stlucia ireland literature sophocles bbc)

¶ Posted 12 October 2008 † Georgia § Links ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2008-10-06

New Media World: The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age

(tags: internet web2.0 social socialnetworking)

¶ Posted 06 October 2008 † Georgia § Links ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2008-09-23

Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008

(tags: blogging blogosphere trends research)

¶ Posted 23 September 2008 † Georgia § Links ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2008-08-27

In The Diaspora : Stabroek News

Nikipedia questions the relevance of Carifesta in its current form: ". . . what might have seemed a radical effort to shape and understand our cultural identity in 1972 has become, thirty-six years later, a vehicle for perpetuating bureaucratic control of the arts, and a no longer relevant notion of `national culture’. "

(tags: caribbean culture arts carifesta guyana)

¶ Posted 27 August 2008 † Georgia § Links ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2008-08-20

Bolt Breaks World Record and Wins Gold Again - Readers' Comments - The New York Times

"To everybody who disapproves of Bolt's "showboating": when we in the Caribbean want to show the world how strong we are, we don't mobilise armies. We sing (Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, the Mighty Sparrow, Rihanna), we write poems (Derek Walcott, St.-John Perse)…"

(tags: caribbean jamaica olympics)

¶ Posted 20 August 2008 † Georgia § Links ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2008-05-24

Global Voices Online » Jamaica, Caribbean: No gays in Golding’s government

Nikipedia rounds up the blog reaction to the Jamaican PM’s recent statements on the non-participation of homosexuals in his administration

(tags: jamaica hom)

¶ Posted 24 May 2008 † Georgia § Links ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2008-05-23

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Over at Antilles, Nikipedia promises Calabash Festival coverage

(tags: caribbean jamaica literature)

¶ Posted 23 May 2008 † Georgia § Links ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2008-05-22

Global map of Digital Inclusion

(tags: map technology world development economics global)
Jamaica Gleaner News - EDITORIAL - Homophobic silliness and a failure of leadership - Thursday | May 22, 2008

Gleaner editorial addresses quality of Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s leadership in light of homophobic comments made on the BBC’s Hardtalk programme

(tags: jamaica homosexuality homophobia)
Jamaica Gleaner News - LETTER OF THE DAY - Buggery no shackle, gays want ‘hate crimes’ law - Thursday | May 22, 2008

The Gleaner’s Letter of the Day makes the case for hate crimes legislation in Jamaica

(tags: jamaica law homosexuality homophobia)

¶ Posted 22 May 2008 † Georgia § Links ‡ Comments (0) °