Comments on: January 2009 : a month of collective activism to remember at Foko

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FOKO Madagascar » Blog Archive » Foko Timeline updates — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:07:17 +0000

[...] January 2009 : a month of collective activism to remember at Foko http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/foko/2009/01/ [...]

By: mariesophie

mariesophie — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:31:42 +0000

Incredible coverage, excellent. Like Joan, I want to say you to take care fore those who are on Facebook. Please don’t put photos of your private life, and don’t let the persons to see too much on your profile !!! and keep it cool

By: Exemplary work of Citizen Journalism from Antsirabe, Tamatave, Diego and Majunga

Exemplary work of Citizen Journalism from Antsirabe, Tamatave, Diego and Majunga — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:00:52 +0000

[...] some Tananarive bloggers were fortunate enough to be able to connect from their worplace, they brought us priceless images and live descriptions [...]

By: romi

romi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:23:14 +0000

I’ll echo what David said – while it’s good to receive updates from you on the ground, please be careful. You’re doing a courageous job of reporting the unstable environment there, and a citizen view like yours adds a badly needed dimension of reality, but make sure to think of yourself first and don’t put yourself in harm’s way at the expense of a photograph.

Having said this, congratulations to all. The coverage is outstanding.

By: joan

joan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:29:15 +0000

Lomelle has raised a very important matter that Andrydago asked months ago : Protecting your identity online…He took a good decision (from my point of view) by erasing any reference to his private life and particularly life/job and now that most of the blogs got involved in the latest political event, I would advise each one of you to consider a “safer” way to protect your privacity.
We are all completly taking responsability of the international exposure and I will always remind that this is pretty much the price to pay when dealing with an increasing readership and people hiding beyond anonymity.

Keep up the good work . Don’t forget that insults, racism, defamation will never stop. It’s just the way you deal with it that count.

By: ariniaina

ariniaina — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:14:44 +0000

These last days were sad, stressing and terrified.
I experienced a lot of things as well. For the first time in my life I was in the crowd taking pics with other journalits and bloggers. Then, my skin was burnt by the sun (it still hurts) but it is so great to see all the people who stop by my blog and link it because they wanna hear from Madagascar.

By: David Sasaki

David Sasaki — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:56:56 +0000

I’m so glad that everyone is safe. Please do think about safety above all else. Amid all the chaos and the intolerable deaths, the amazing coverage and analysis of Foko bloggers was really a shining light. Great work.

By: Tahina

Tahina — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:05:10 +0000

This has been a very tough week and I hope we are all in one piece. I wish I could blog more but going out was a real risk. I thank all the bloggers, twitters, facebookers each one who’s taken pictures and talked about what what’s going on here in Madagascar.