antony loewenstein and the blogging revolution
Antony explains why he wrote the book:
Reading an advance copy, I was impressed with the deeply humanist underpinnings of his arguments about the vexed relationships between bloggers and the repressive regimes they live (and write) under in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Egypt, and China.
I met Antony at the Global Voices Summit in Budapest along with others active in the global blogging community; what all of the information activists I met there—many who blog anonymously or pseudonymously—share with the bloggers profiled in this new book is the sense that their thoughts, loves, fears, and concerns are valid and important to publish freely no matter whether the subject matter is politics or…Dire Straits (you’ll have to read the book).
Many, like Antony, are prolific bloggers. To follow the conversations, I like the Global Voices daily digest, an excellent way to find voices from all over the world.
Congratulations, Antony—
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Posted Saturday, September 6th, 2008, 8:56 am * Filed in Design. * Tags: antony, blogging, global, kthread, loewenstein, revolution, voices. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
September 6th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Thanks for the support and insights, means a lot. I guess my book is really about reaching out to the world, through a project on dead trees, to understand how the web is affecting people in profound ways away from the West. The majority of the world, after all.
Isn’t that what journalism should be about?
September 7th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Indeed, Antony, that is what the best sort of journalism is about. I look forward to the next book ;)