Entries Tagged as 'Internet'

May 7, 2008

Cuban Refuses To Give Blogger Yoani Sanchez Visa To Collect Prize

Cuban authorities have refused to give a travel visa to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez so she can receive one of Spain’s top journalism awards in Madrid on Wednesday, said Spanish newspaper El Pais which hands out the awards annually.
Last month the newspaper announced it has awarded 32-year-old [...]

May 7, 2008

Barbados Rihanna New Single ‘Take A Bow’ And Elle Magazine Photo Shoot

Barbados Rihanna continues to rock the world with her music.
Click here to watch to her video ‘Take A Bow’.
Rihanna will be  featured on the June cover of Elle Magazine. Just one of her many magazine shoots.
Click here.

 

May 7, 2008

Blogging Verses Journalism

Such was the 10 min topic on CBC TV 8 2hr morning show “Morning Barbados” where presenter Belle Holder sought to get the views of Eric Smith and Jewel Forde on how blogging has or is affecting journalism.
Well I would agree with Eric Smith, blogging is here to stay and is growing. They are critical, [...]

May 1, 2008

Nelson Mandela On US Terrorist List

 Nelson Mandela still needs  special permission to visit the States all because the Nobel Peace Prize Winner is blacklisted on US terrorist watch lists.
18 years onwards since his release from prison, commom sense finally prevail when at a Senate hearing Tuesday 9th April,  US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice “urged lawmakers…………..to make sure the legislation was passed” to remove [...]

April 28, 2008

Saudi Blogger Farhan Freed From Prison

Saudi Arabia’s most popular blogger was released Saturday after serving four months in prison without charge.
The blogger, Fouad al-Farhan, 33, was detained Dec. 10 after authorities warned him about his online support of an activist group. At the time of his arrest, the Interior Ministry said only that his violations were not related to [...]

April 21, 2008

Journalist Carl Moore Love/Hate Relationship With Bajan’s Blogs

I got my colleagues to agree that all letters to the Editor had to be signed with real names. That policy continues to today.
My reason was that if Government minister
Mr John Boyce orders that all music will cease on noisy public transport from next week, you ought to be man enough to stand up [...]

April 19, 2008

Bloggers Can Now Access Encyclopedia Brittania For Free

TechCrunch comments on the 32 volume Encyclopedia Britannia which seems to be playing catch up with Wikipedia.

April 18, 2008

Can You Survive for 24hrs Without Your Computer?

“Shutdown Day is a Global Internet Experiment whose purpose is to get people to think about how their lives have changed with the increasing use of the home computer, and whether or not any good things are being lost because of this.”
Dondequiera [blog] from Puerto Rico asks: “What about if I just promise to think [...]

April 9, 2008

To ABC News Team

Dear ABC ‘Talk Back’ News Team,
Thank you for your interest in Bajan Global Report and to share our thoughts “on Raul Castro’s lifting of some restrictions on Cuban citizens— including whether it has change your view on the communist island and what the future may hold for U.S.-Cuban relations.”
Unfortunately we will have to decline the [...]

April 9, 2008

Christain Group Sues Google After Search Engine Refuses To Take It’s Abortion Adverts

Here’s an interesting article on the dailymail web site. It says that, “A Christian group is suing Google over the internet giant’s refusal to take its anti-abortion adverts.
The Christian Institute, a “non-denominational Christian charity”, wanted to pay Google so that whenever the word “abortion” was typed into the popular search engine, its link would appear [...]