Around The Blogosphere 21 Feb 2012

A 28-year old Japanese man with dreams of cycling around the world became the center of internet buzz when his bicycle was stolen in China. His story and call for help in finding the bike has been forwarded over 60,000 times and spent some time as #1 on Sina Weibo. Last night around 11pm, police finally recovered the bicycle and returned it to him.

A policeman returns the bicycle to Japanese world traveler Karahawa Keiichiro in Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 20, 2012. [Photo:Asianewsphoto]

Nicaragua: Discovering ‘1001 Tropics' with Blogger Mildred Largaespada

Written by Silvia Vinas · Translated by Kathryn Morgan · Latin America

Well-known blogger and journalist Mildred Largaespada was recently interviewed about her participation as the first Nicaraguan woman in the 20minutos.es Premios 20Blogs blog competition. Here Global Voices shares video of the interview and the additional questions that Midred added to her blog.

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Just a year after the Egyptian revolution, 10% of its Social Media Documentation is already gone. An article on US magazine The Atlantic explains how this is happening, quoting a study conducted by a phD student in computer science and Web preservation at Old Dominion University. “Twitter gives us a new version of ‘the first rough draft of history.' But tweets are fragile things.”

Barbados Underground says that “there are basically five types of bloggers, the political blogger, the philosophical blogger, the religious blogger, the light hearted blogger and the blogger extraordinaire.”

Africa: African Arguments Online

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

Another Global Voices article, this one about African Arguments Online, a multi-blogging platform that covers contemporary African events and develops debates on themes that are important to an ever changing continent. The platform has 6 blogs: Making Sense of Sudan, African Politics Now!, Rethinking Zimbabwe, Business Africa, The Central Africa Forum and Diaspora Debate.

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