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Rachel Rawlins, Global Voices Online mangaging editor, writes:

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She also continues that “Global Voices is “an extraordinary site that allows for both editorial gatekeeping and wide access to news and information from underreported parts of the world.“

Listening to Ronan Keating’s ‘When you say nothing at all,’ having my right hand moved the micky mouse over and over, I finally brought up a graphic for my journal’s cover out of Adobe Photoshop CS2. I could not find anything else for this montage other than my own portrait that I scanned from print newspaper that Kerstin Kohlenberg sent to me from Germany. I decided to stick to only three colors, using mono color for the portrait and for huge background as it is the best way to keep things focused and identical. The white background, on the rigth side that contains my portrait, is divided by my journal URL, dually. At first, I thought of having the text in faded, but later decide to make it as precise as it should be now. As I almost finished off my design work, John Elton entertained me with “Sorry seems to be the hardest words”.

Before then, I upgraded my WordPress 2.0 to 2.4. The procedure was quite something, taking some steps that I had to do carefully. It’s cool, of course. Using this free and open source software for nearly a year now, I have no serious plan to switch to another tool at all. The good thing is that it is just a matter of time that I can do more and more with tool, customizing it at the time that I am still experimenting with it.