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The BBC is organising a blogging event here in London, 18 March, that seems an extraordinary initiative: bloggers from around the world will be able to live blog, tweet, buzz -insert preferred method here-, conversations about issues affecting them, in their own language! This will in turn be posted/broadcast across BBC platforms, such as BBC World TV, World service radio, BBC Blogworld, and BBC World Have Your Say. I am honoured to have been invited to this event, that has been referred to as a "social experiment", and can only hope that our opinions will be heard far and wide.

Venezuelan press has been abuzz with Henri Falcon's resignation from Chavez's socialist party (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela or PSUV).

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Today's communiqué from RCTV International (RCTVi) deserves attention, and a translation:

Gossip is ripe as to the reasons why Alberto Federico Ravell, co-owner of about the only open air channel critical of despot Hugo Chavez left in Venezuela, decided to resign to his post as chief exec of Globovision. His partner, Guillermo Zuloaga, came on TV with an Alistair Campbell crock-of-shit type of performance, (fwd to min.

Must admit, I have been a bit slow on some developments lately, however upon reading this morning the news about whether or not Chavez said that Haiti's earthquake had been caused by some "earthquake weapon" operated by the US Navy, I decided to dig a little to establish who said what.