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Morocco: Disappearing the Amazigh

So it looks like the Moroccans are at it again. Instead of just letting people be who they are, the government is still going on about their naming laws. In other words, if you want to give your child an Amazigh (Berber) name, tough luck. Moroccan human rights groups recently proposed a list of Amazigh […]

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Blogs 4 Evr

Writing for Wired, Paul Boutin made the outlandish statement this week that “Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004,” stirring up blogs and Twitter and leaving a trail of Paul Butin haters. Very little digging, however, shows why Boutin made such a statement: his blog is a piece of shit. Although the blog has […]

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Supporting the Othersphere

The GV Summit is amazing for a number of reasons – the connections we make, the names put to faces, and of course, the sessions. Session 3 today, “When Biases Meet Biases,” China was the hot topic – namely, Tibet and the difference of opinion between the Western media and Chinese media of all forms, […]