Posts from February 3, 2015
The painful fall back from wonderland
After Leila left us fairly early, she wrote us a good-bye e-mail where she mentioned going back to the “real world”. I didn't stop there much. After the craze of the departure day settled: waking up on time, reaching the airport on time, catching the first plane on time, catching...
Getting back home is never easy
I just wrote a post in my blog about GV summit and Marianna Breytman encourage me to post it here. But it is general information for those who does not know about GV, what we did in Philippines and who knows, may be I can help to recruit new authors. So...
Introducing Visual Storytelling
One of the sessions from the Global Voices Community meeting that I highly appreciated was the discussion on visual storytelling by GV Executive Director Ivan Sigal. The discussion looked at how new information and communication technologies and online platforms can be maximized to present narratives in new ways. The emergence...
سيبو:رحلة جد ومرح
صورة لمدينة سيبو التقطتها من نافذة غرفتي كانت الصورة المطبوعة في مخيلتي حول الفلبين تتلخص في كونها دولة اَسوية استوائية تملك شواطئ جميلة،دولة تعاني الفقر ومخلفات سنوات عديدة من الدكتاتورية والفساد،لذلك لم أفكر في أي لحظة في زيارتها، فالأماكن الجميلة في العالم كثيرة وأقرب من الفلبين،لكن،بدأت تلك النظرة تتغير وذلك...
Do We Feed the Trolls? A Fascinating Summit Discussion
At the Global Voices Summit this year, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel of experts, though expert for perhaps the wrong reasons: Each person on my panel had the unfortunate experience of being trolled online. The panel, crafted by GV editor Sahar Habib Ghazi and entitled “Do we...
