April 2006

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Nepali Photobloggers Hog Limelight

4/29/2006 in Blogs & Blogging | No comments

There are not many photobloggers in Nepal and as far as I knew only four are there. But nevertheless they are making their marks and hogged limelight during the people’s movement that concluded recently after the King gave up the power.

On April 23, Rajesh KC’s Phalano.com probably became the first Nepali blog to be featured in Boing Boing. It was indeed an achievement.

Then, a Brazillian newspaper Globe featured an interview of another photoblogger Sailendra Kharel who is based in Nepalgunj. The interview is in Portugese and here is the translated version of the story.

Congratulations, Rajesh KC and Sailendra Kharel.

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Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace

4/28/2006 in Blogs & Blogging, Uzz Update | No comments

I was in Manila, Philippine for four days, April 18 to 22, to participate in the conference called Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace organized by South East Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) and Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ). The conference was held in a time when the people’s movement in Nepal was as its height.

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