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Podcast Notes: Global Voices Summit08

Chris Vallance
1 Jul 08, 01:02 PM

Thursday to Saturday I was in Budapest covering the Global Voices Summit08. For those of you who don't know Global Voices it is the pre-eminent online portal for the aggregation of blog posts around the world.

While in the UK much time is spent debating the merits of bloggers vs professional journalists, in countries without a free press, the point is largely moot, blogging provides an important source of independent commentary, analysis and news not available elsewhere.

The Summit focused on issues of censorship and the repression of bloggers. While these can seem like dry subjects, many of those who attended the conference had paid a high price for their determination to express themselves online. In the extended edition of Pods and Blogs below we dedicate most of the programme to the summit.

The programme featured:

Victor Kaonga, Wael Abbas, Adam Loewenstein, Alex Au, Nart Villeneuve,Robert Guerra, and not forgetting our excellent tour guide Drew from Budacast. Thanks also to all those who helped put this together, who didn't get a credit (one or two may appear in short bursts on the programme itself in the various intros and montages). Special thanks to Georgia and Solana for being such gracious hosts.

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