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This time Spanish newspaper. Lali Sandiumenge writes at “Avui” means “Today” in Catalan, the language that they speak in North-East of Spain (Catalonia). Lali told me that this newspaper is the main newspaper written in Catalan in Barcelona.
Here is the full interview transcript, part of which was published in last Sunday edition beside other parts [...]
Blogger Seyyed Ahmad Seyyed Seraji has lost his appeal and is now to serve 18 months of jail (and receive 30 lashes), on charges of attempting to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran and insulting the Supreme Leader, Shahram Kholdi reports.
Iranian bloggers Farid Modarresi and Hossein Abdollah Pour was tried today for charges of insulting high-ranking officials of the Islamic Republic (two members of the Expediency Council and the former President, Mohammad Khatami) and taking action against the national security. [Hat Tip: Shahram Kholdi]
Will lawmakers raise shields to protect bloggers?
A heads up for bloggers and other independent journalists on the status of shield laws and constitutional protections — or lack thereof.
So, I’m again in the news. This time it was Italian media. Following is the transcript of my interview with Paola Caridi - a journalist who lives and works in the Middle East as a correspondent of Lettera22, an Italian news agency which collaborates with the leading national weeklies and dailies.
So here you go:
Q1. It�s [...]
Today, Reporters Without Borders published a Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents (in English, French, Chinese, Arabic and Persian), in which experts and bloggers from all over the world advise Internet users, especially those in repressive countries, how to set up their own blogs and get them known, while preserving their personal anonymity.
Why is it important? [...]
Today is the DAY! Here is my the result of my quest in random order:
1. From Mauritian: The Carine’s Page, Life of a Mauritian girl residing in Singapore.
2. From South Africa: Cherryflava pics, a blog edited and photographed by Jonathan Cherry. Shot mainly on location in Cape Town.
3. From American Samoa: Stuck in [...]
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, [...]
It was brought to my attention that I was mentioned in the Christian Science Monitor, which made me super excited. I was eager to find any sound bites from my interview with Charles Levinson - Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, who interviewed me over the phone while I was in Jordan (he was in [...]
In my to-do-list, I always wanted to meet some/all of Jordan Bloggers, and that wish came true last night. On top of that, it was more pleasant to have Ethan Zuckerman from Global Voice attending and sponsoring this meeting.
Having said that, you can imagine how interesting it was. Starting from the place we meet at, [...]
Isam had a nice post regarding the new revisit of JordanPlanet. So this is my comments to his post, which did not make it there, maybe it is too lengthy. Anyway…
The fact that you are using Drupal gives you a powerful tool in hand, yet it all depends on the mission of JP.
For example, if [...]
In an interesting article by Dr.Ahmad Moghrabi at Daral Al Hayat, Dr. Moghrabi talks about the lessons learned from bloggers and their fast reaction to Tsunami disaster and the major role the bloggers made to help, minutes after the earthquake hit. This also reminds me of our friend, Strav, and his live reports (such as [...]
It is petty to admit that we; in the Middle East are very poor in organizing our effort in driving WWW towards globalization (our globalization). Isam was searching from Arab Blogger for some time, I also did same for a while, sometimes succeeded, most-of-the-times failed to find them.
The problem is that our coders wizards are [...]
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