by Bob Boynton
This is it — number 50.
When I started I did not know how far it would go. It has gotten to 50. This is the 50th blog entry at Globalizing News.
It has been going for 15 weeks. That is an average of 3.3 entries per week. Since I was on holiday at Christmas [...]
by Bob Boynton
There was no mention of the World Social Forum on the 24th or on the 25th. However, BBC World had a report about the World Economic Forum — the alter-ego of the World Social Forum — on the 24th and the 25th. The most interesting ‘mention’ was that of Aljazeera [Arabic]
This is [...]
by Bob Boynton
There was no further word about the World Social Forum today — midnight, my time, today.
By twelve hours ago the reports on Aljazeera [English] and BBC World had disappeared. No reports have taken their places.
CNN World is still ignoring the Forum.
The World Social Forum is meeting in Nairobi Kenya beginning on Saturday [January 20, 2007]. According to BBC World it was “set up in 2001 as a rival to the World Economic Forum.”
Aljazeera [English] quotes one of the organizers of the conference as saying
“The WSF in Nairobi will bring Africa and Africans’ needs onto the [...]
