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Arab Blogging 2005! | Sabbah Report — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:44:13 +0000

[...] Susannah asked a question and I thought I would start this year by answering it here. She said: It was good to hear you on World Have Your Say. However, presumably for reasons of time (or possible coughing?, although the interview asked the other two interviewees about the growth in the blogospheres in their part of the global woods during the past year, and their predictions for further growth in the coming year, you were not asked this particular question. Would it be possible for you to give some thoughts, and estimates, on the growth of the Arab blogosphere and its constituents over the past year? Are there any figures on the number of Arab blogs, whether in English, Arabic, French etc? It seems to me that a lot of blogs have been set up in the past two or three months of this year alone. Any other observations you would have made on the programme had there been time? [...]

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Shadows - Tag, comment, and rate your favorite web pages. — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:10:12 +0000

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By: Susannah

Susannah — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:41:42 +0000

It was good to hear you on World Have Your Say. However, presumably for reasons of time (or possible coughing?, although the interview asked the other two interviewees about the growth in the blogospheres in their part of the global woods during the past year, and their predictions for further growth in the coming year, you were not asked this particular question. Would it be possible for you to give some thoughts, and estimates, on the growth of the Arab blogosphere and its constituents over the past year? Are there any figures on the number of Arab blogs, whether in English, Arabic, French etc? It seems to me that a lot of blogs have been set up in the past two or three months of this year alone. Any other observations you would have made on the programme had there been time?

Thanks.

By: Roba

Roba — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:21:35 +0000

Good job Haitham :)

By: Haitham

Haitham — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:47:53 +0000

Thanks you, kinzi.

In fact I’ll be on Al-Jazeera TV later on January 2006; if everything goes as planned :-)

By: kinzi

kinzi — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:20:27 +0000

That is great! Your voice truly is global! May 2006 hold even more opportunities like this.

By: Haitham

Haitham — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:21:05 +0000

It’s a radio show, and was 1800 GMT of last night. I guess they will have the record of the show tomorrow on there website. I’ll post a link (maybe a copy) when I get it. However it should be here anyway:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/world_have_your_say/

As for the talk, nothing much though, it was a little talk about topics of most interest in the Middle East blogs; that was until I got a bad cough after which I could hardly talk. But was nice to hear the voice of other colleagues from Global Voices.

By: Zainab Alkhawaja

Zainab Alkhawaja — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:34:51 +0000

I’d love to see the show. What time is it?