If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Dispatch from Tunis: The Civil Society Summit That Wasn�t Today as a global summit on the Internet got underway, the Tunisian government did all it could to smother a [...]

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New service by Yahoo! Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search including your blog. View the most popular pages from your blog and other sites, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page (similar like if you type �link:www.sitename.com� [...]

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Man gets his Google search history submitted as evidence in murder trial.

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I think that a critical question to ask is how the Paris riots spread so widely? Was is because of the nightly television news? Was it because of bloggers? How did the killings of two migrant north african children turn into the largest scale rioting france has ever seen? Is it only because of the [...]

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In November of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at Europe’s CERN Particle Physics Laboratory, invented the very first web server and web browser. The server, entitled simply httpd, and the browser, called WorldWideWeb, ran on Tim’s NeXT cube and worked exclusively on the NeXTstep operating system. Archive copies of Tim’s first web page and some [...]

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Please sign this new petition asking the Egyptian Interior ministry to free Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman, currently in an Egyptian jail for his critical blogging.

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In solidarity with the two Moroccan embassy employees kidnapped last month in Iraq, the Moroccan blogsphere started a new blog that follows up on latest news and coordination campaigns to free the hostages (in Arabic and French).

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And I’m now FLOCKing. And with Akismet, WordPress.com is up to something… Nice!

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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.

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Will this stop Nigerian spammers? One has to admit that some of the spam was priceless!
Here us some webcomic sets the imaginary scene for all those Nigerian spam e-mails that have plagued inboxes over the last few years.

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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]

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Complaining about freedom of speech and censorship in Mideast media? If you think that Media Censorship is only active in this part of the world, then what do you call The Federal Communication Commission’s campaign for censorship of media in US? (warning: 18 and above only).
[hat tip: Scott Fish]

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Just came across a new Arabic ‘Blog-to-Media’ project, which is still on beta. It’s called ArabiskBlog. What they do is quite interesting. On weekly bases they publish a PDF Magazine called ‘Blogging Beyond Borders‘ (already three issues), of selected Arabic language Blog posts. Although it looks so far to concentrate on Egyptian blogs, however we [...]

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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.

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Yahoo! just released a podcast search engine.

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Ever noticed the US government practice of Neo-Racism? Instead of saying all people from the Middle-East should be treated differently, the US government says people from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and [...]

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Two days ago, the Internet Services Unit (ISU) at King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), the governing body of the internet in Saudi Arabia, have blocked Blogger, denying users inside the country accessing their blogs. They have also blocked photos from the popular photo hosting service Flickr. Users still can log on to [...]

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If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House�s official biographical page for President Bush.
Although this is explained by googlebombing here, but the fact remains that this is a result of the huge number of webmasters who used the phrases [failure] [...]

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Opera is celebrating their 10-year online anniversary and giving away a free Opera registration code to remove ads!

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A Chinese researcher has warned of a new threat to public health and morality — naked internet chatting. Up to 20 000 Chinese log on to chat rooms each night in various states of undress and communicate using web cams, the Shanghai Daily newspaper said on Tuesday.
China has tightened policing of the web following alarms [...]

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