global voice as online is an and medianal blockegger network. the idea is that there are people all over the world using the internet to talk about all kinds of very interesting things, and when we started in 2004, the idea was, look, there are all these people in the middle east and africa, asia, talking about things happening in their country that the media is now reporting on because the media can only report so much, but it is really hard to find them unless you know where to look. then you'd do not know who is credible. this guy says he is blogging banon.11 on -- less than non how do we know he even lives there? so now we have people translating back and forth, what is coming out of the arab region this week, what is going on in the russian blogosphere, the russian internet? we have several people who are following that. it is a way to help people in the english-speaking world get a better handle on the conversations happening on-line globally, and a lot of volunteers are translating back and forth in a lot of different languages. it is a n