Why?

It might seem a bit pretentious to call a blog "Blog of Nations", so I guess I should explain why I've decided to start this thing. Actually I don't intend to post much content of my own, rather I want to have a location where I can store and share links to the best blogs around the world.

I was watching a TED talk by Ethan Zuckerman, called "Listening to Global Voices" and it really inspired me to think about the global media, and who is connected to whom, who listens to whom, etc. We have an extremely biased media, and frequently we don't try to hard to look for sources outside of that.


Ethan showed the image above, by Alisa Miller - from a previous TED talk: a Cartogram of American Television news over the period of a month.

What he had to say about it really rings true: "And you can see when you distort a map based on attention the world within American television news, it's basically reduced to this giant bloated U.S. and a couple of other countries which we've invaded. And that's basically what our media is about."

What Ethan Zuckerman has done - with some other folks - is to start Global Voices, - a program to get people blogging, and talking to each other all over the world.

This blog is an attempt to mirror some of that effort, and to contribute to it, by creating a place to talk about world media, and link to great blogs all over the world.