Rebecca MacKinnon hosted in the very early hours a dynamic session at the BloggerCon on international developments. Some key guests could not come, because they did not get a visa - no surprise here in the country that says to defend free speech. There was a misplaced tendency of using the successful weblog revolution in Iran (100,000 including a vice-premier) as a model for the rest of the world.
In China for example everybody seems to be very anxious to avoid a role of a leader, like some webloggers did in Iran, but the focus is more on building up a solid mass basis first, without making too much noise. The tone in the US was also slight partnernalistic. I took the liberty of refusing the sympathetic offer of sending second-hand laptops to the developing countries on behave of China: we only want the latest technology here. It might work in other places though.
Another proposal, to make the world slightly more manageable, was to 'adopt a country'. I kindly offered to adopt the USA as a country in need.
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