By following links on Dion Nissenbaum’s blog yesterday, I came across this 20 June post on blogging, from Adam Reilly’s blog for the Boston Phoenix,
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“…there’s a lot of disagreement out there about what, exactly, ‘blogs’ and ‘bloggers’ are. Who decided, for example, that writing like a grown-up means you’re not blogging? [...]
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board will be considering yet another resolution, on Monday, castigating Iran for questions about its past, present and future nuclear programs, as the Associated Press’s veteran writer in Vienna, George Jahn, reported in a dispatch filed earlier today.
Jahn writes that the growing pressure is aimed at wresting concessions from [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Journalism and Journalists, Nuclear technology and weapons, UN Security Council
Minimedia guy writes: “Tsk, tsk on Paid Content today for taking a snarky potshot at Yahoo’s Hot Zone, the series in which ( dangerously handsome) roving reporter Kevin Sites serves up pathos from world hotspots. Paid Content says this magical misery tour attracted only 1.38 [million, it turns out -- see below] visitors in March, [...]
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“Blogs are treated somewhat differently from news stories because they are somewhat different. They must adhere to the same standards, in that a blogger can’t make unsupported allegations and needs to have done some reporting, but they have a different tone and purpose from news articles. And because blogs are by nature reactive, blog postings [...]
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Sorry for the short break — there were server problems, but the boss has fixed them.
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China Hand, meanwhile, has posted this perceptive piece on his/her China Matters blog:
“The Hariri Tribunal and the Approaching Lebanese Train Wreck - China Abstains and Gets out of the Way” — “The Security Council, by a vote of 10-0-5 (five abstentions by China, Russia, Indonesia, Qatar, and South Africa), authorized the imposition of a tribunal [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Hariri Commission of Inquiry, Lebanon
The NY Times has an article on a colleague (we have not yet had the pleasure of making his acquaintance), who blogs from UNHQ/NY. The Story, As Blogs Proliferate, a Gadfly With Accreditation at the U.N., by Maria Aspan, was published on 30 April, and focuses mainly on issues concerning accreditation [with which we [...]
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This was posted recently on Jan Pronk’s blog:
“Weblog nr 41
February 25, 2007
Before my final departure from Sudan in December last year I addressed the UN staff in Khartoum and Juba. In my address I presented fifteen guidelines for peacekeepers. Several colleagues asked me to put these on paper. Here they are:
First: United Nations peacekeepers in [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Sudan - Darfur, Sudan - Southern Sudan, UN Humanitarian Efforts, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
The UN News Centre has written, in an article about the UN’s Holocaust Remembrance day commemorations on 29 January, that: “Ceremonies were held in other UN outposts around the world. ‘The sheer dimensions of the organized murder of Jews and others, the very scale of the systematic attempt at destroying an entire people, make the [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Blogging, Iran, UN General Assembly, UN Secretary-General
The SG-desginate, BAN KI-MOON of South Korea, will be sworn in as the next UNSG at the UN General Assembly in New York at 10 a.m. on 14 December. But Kofi Annan’s mandate does not end until 31 December at midnight, New York Time.
Musing on BAN KI-MOON’s post-election statements in New York, my Mentor wrote to [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Transition, UN History