The Chicago Tribune reports that the African island of Mauritius is on its way to becoming the world's first nation with total wireless Internet coverage, essentially turning the entire island into one gigantic "hot spot".
Riding Sun had the story over five months ago. Advantage: blogosphere!
FOLLOW-UP:
When I posted about Mauritius's plans to turn itself into a "cyber-island" back in January, the nationwide network was expected to be up and running as early as March.
So what's taking so long? The Tribune says that the Mauritian government sees the new wireless network as a threat to the huge profits it reaps from its substantial stake in the island's leading telecommunications company — so it dragged its feet on granting the necessary permits.
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Monday, June 20
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"Advantage, blogosphere"?
It looks like you just linked to a mainstream media report in Africa about this. What actual reporting did you do?
Posted by derek rose
True, I didn't fly to Mauritius to get the story. Afrol News deserves full credit for that.
But Afrol News is a pretty obscure news source outside of Africa. The advantage of the blogosphere is not only its ability to carry out original reporting, but also its ability to pick up and call attention to stories from around the world that haven't yet been covered by major media outlets.
Don't be hatin'.
Posted by GaijinBiker
"But Afrol News is a pretty obscure news source outside of Africa. The advantage of the blogosphere is not only its ability to carry out original reporting, but also its ability to pick up and call attention to stories from around the world that haven't yet been covered by major media outlets. "
That is how can justify reading Drudge.
Posted by Bojack
Hatin'? Me ? Noooo. But maybe I was a bit grumpy after reading the comments from the Instalanched post I surfed in on. (I'm a reporter).
But is it really fair to call what you're talking about an "advantage"? I mean, we in the MSM could just as easily pick out and call attention to stories around the world, too. But we don't, because we want to verify them with our own reporting first. (or the reporting of a wire service to which we subscribe).
This isn't a criticism of you or blogs, understand ... I'm just saying it's more of a "difference" than an "advantage."
Posted by derek rose
In my view wires services are one of the major problems with MSM today. I realise why it makes sense to have them, and that many media organisations have their own network as well as their wire(s) but at the same time they tend to result in only a tiny portion of the news being covered, and only a small aspect of that. Its all very well to be seeing a story covered from different perspectives, but it does lead to most of the "news" actually being comment because it is the comment that sets a newspaper out from others of its type, rather than the news its covering.
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