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Podcast: Interview with Antony Loewenstein about “The Blogging Revolution”

October 30th, 2008Esra'a (Bahrain)

I can’t imagine any readers of this site not being interested in the content of Antony Loewenstein’s “The Blogging Revolution,” a book about bloggers who live and blog under authoritarian regimes.

It’s relevant to many of us blogging at this site. Antony has long been one of my favorite bloggers, mostly because he has guts. If he has something to say he’ll say it regardless of whether or not the majority would agree with him.

In this podcast we discuss the following:

  • Introduction of the book and why it was written
  • Countries he traveled to in order to conduct the interviews/studies behind the book
  • Western multinationals such as Yahoo, Google, etc and their occassional role in state censorship or activist crackdowns
  • The future of the internet and where blogging is headed
  • Victims of the blogging revolution

    • And a few other things in between. I hope that you will enjoy this podcast and find it useful, I encourage you to get the book.

    [LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ON OUR PODCASTING SITE.]

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    One Response to “Podcast: Interview with Antony Loewenstein about “The Blogging Revolution””

    1. #1 Mideast Youth on blogging at Antony Loewenstein - October 31st, 2008 at 11:34 pm

      [...] I was interviewed this week about my book, The Blogging Revolution, and what online players can do to highlight ever-tightening censorship. [...]

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