An Israeli blogger, Nir Ofir has a brilliant idea:
In one long moment on August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post a recommendation of 5 new Blogs, Preferably, Blogs different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog surfers will find themselves leaping and discovering new, unknown Blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers.
So lets celebrate it on Aug 31. Lets push bloggers to move outside of those closed networks they are living.
Following 50 (or so) are tagged to do the Blog Day post on their own blogs on or before August 31 and tell us five top blogs that they enjoy reading:
Subzero Blue
AquaCool
Abu Sinan
Desert Island Boy
Je Blog
Silly Bahraini Girl
Mahmood Al-Yousef
Manal and Alaa
The Big Pharaoh
Miss Mabrouk
Baheyaa
From Cairo With Love
The Sandmonkey
Arabist
Ethan
Farid
Baghdad Dweller
Christian Iraq
Salam Pax
OceanCreep
Mental Mayhem
And Far Away
A Kuwaiti Online
Winds of Change in the Middle East?
Abu Aardvark
Ms Levantine
Ya Rayi Our Rai
Nur al-Cubicle
Umkahlil
Peacepalestine
Angry White Kid
Rafah Pundits Radio
Bethlehem Bloggers: Voices from the Bethlehem Ghetto
Raising Yousuf: a diary of a mother under occupation
Body on the Line
International Solidarity Movement
It's not too late at all
Israeli Watch
Rebecca MacKinnon
David Sasaki
Jeff Ooi
Karim Elsahy
Neha Viswanathan
Paul Frankenstein
Rachel Barenblat
JoWhaRaS ChAMbeR
Crossroads Arabia
Sowaleef
Trilancer
Saudi...
Jaded Saudi
The Religious Policeman
Saudi Jeans
Gemini Blues
Jewaira's Boudoir
Mosaics
Mouse Hunter - Karim2k Blog
Quantum Thoughts
nomadica
The Beauty and the Beast
My rules, My way
UmQusai's Thoughts ..
Renderings of Me
Adventures in Dubai
the secret blog of arabia*
Secret Dubai diary
An Emaratis Thoughts
The Emirates EconomistAds
Did I forget anyone? I enjoy reading all above, even more. (Not necessary that I agree with them :-) )
As David said:
We at Global Voices, of course, couldn't be more supportive of the idea. We have long encouraged bridge blogging, where a weblog serves as a bridge between two groups of people, especially from different countries and cultures. August 31st marks a day in which we can all play that role by seeking out new blogs from foreign places and introducing them to our regular readers. If you're looking for a great place to start exploring, there�s none better than our Bridge Blog Index.
I'm sure many of the above tagged blogs will work on it. I appreciate a Trackback to this post enable that I can follow your Tags!
Have Fun :-)
Update:
What do you need to do?
1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2005
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link: http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2005 and a link to the BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org
Contextually Related posts:
Good idea Haitham. I have more than a few blogs that I certainly do not agree with, yet I read them anyway. You’ll have my submission on or before the 31st.
Good Start :-)
Thanks, Abu Sinan :-D
Anyone else ;-)
good idea!
blogged.
very nice idea…
Bravo !
Très bonne idée, very good idea !
I totally adhere to it.
i like the idea Sabbah! Only, I am always stretched for time, and stick to blogs that share my point of view more or less, but yes, there are a few blogs which are Palestine two staters, which I read and enjoy, so yup! count me in on your game!
Great… It’s just getting better and better :-)
Thanx Haitham for tagging me .. and inshallah I will celebrate the blog day :)
Hey thanx for tagging me ,,. but am kinda slow in getting this ? what exactly we need to do ? LOL
Thanks, Haitham. I will be happy to participate. umkahlil
You all are welcome :-)
beauty, here is what you have to do, in Arabic and in English
Thanks for tagging me, 31st August it is!
I just love the idea :)
Thank you for tagging me. I will try to get others involved as well.
hi thanks for tagging me, inshalla il have it done, do i have to do it ON or by 31st and another thing do i just have to write about 3 blogs I enjoy reading or what? sorry i dont have time to read this complete post lol
I find your site through someone else and must say enjoy it much.
IRAN AZADI
Hiba,
simple steps:
That’s all!
Yo sabbah sounds really great !
waw great event :D
cool! i’m looking forward to this – thanks for tagging me!
Thanks for the reminder, Haitham! I will definitely participate, and I’m looking forward to seeing what you post on World Blog Day, too.
Thank you for tagging me. Looking forward to Blog Day :)
great to see everyone working together to make blogging even more interesting to read and fun.
happy blog day!
I have finished mine Haitham. Not sure blogspot has the tagback/ping technology.
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2005/08/blogger-day-yo-sabbah.html
There’s mine Sabbah!
Thanks, I saw it and mentioned it in my new BlogDay2005 post :-)
I suppose better late than never? I have 5 Blogs listed here for you, some of them from my students and the others are fellow ISMers and others people can find listed on my Blog if they want more new blogs to read:
http://freckle.blogs.com/ The Soul Unfolds Itself
http://obscure-persona.blogspot.com/ The Indecisive Blogger
http://adifferentvision.blogspot.com/ A Different Vision
http://thismuchicansayistrue.blogspot.com/ This Much I Can Say Is True
http://davereed.org/ American Jewish Radical
Thanks for tagging me and letting me know about this. It has really enabled me to see so many other Blogs out there that I didn’t know about!
Salam,
Marcy
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