A while ago, I queried my fellow members of the Online News Association. Simple question:
What non-American sites do you regularly visit?
Within hours my mail box was bulking with responses. At least, that’s what I hoped. But alas, in vain. After some subtle prodding I did get some better idea what (mostly American) online-colleagues consider international inspiration.
Let me list them all:
- Canadian Broadcasting Company
And that was about it, although some funny guy mentioned that we shouldn’t forget the international flavor of Alaska and New Mexico.
Damn colleagues, we just can’t be bothered, can we?
As I was about to give up, someone alerted me to the following site:
Global Voices Online, managed by Curt Poff, who plugged his site as follows: “It’s not hard news. But still, you get a good idea about what folks are blogging about in far-flung locations around the world.”
And so I find myself for some time already, mostly after midnight, surfing the world wide web of blogging. Little pearl in that international ocean of opinions is by far the bloggers from Burma. It is a beautiful world.