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By Gregory Levey
The Israeli government is deploying new tactics to deepen ties with American youth and evangelicals.
For the moment at least, the state of Israel has 553 friends. One of them is Leonardo DiCaprio.
The 20-something Israeli official who is showing me Israel’s new MySpace page, however, says she isn’t sure if the link to the [...]
Update Nov 2nd: Mahmood’s Blog is back!
It’s official, Mahmood’s Blog (http://mahmood.tv) will be blocked effective immediately, by the orders of the Bahraini Ministry of Information.
Together with 6 other web sites (listed below), the official memo was delivered to all the ISP’s in Bahrain this afternoon.
Mahmood is a prominent Bahraini/Arab blogger. His blog is the most [...]
This is really stupid:
Saudi ISP have blocked SaudiEve’s blog, and it is said that
Received an email requesting this:
Thanks to an amazing website I recently happened across, I have created a survey on internet trends in Bahrain. I am interested in documenting internet access and uses in Bahrain. I am asking that this survey only be taken by people actually living in Bahrain. Your participation in this study would [...]
Here is another toy from Google. It is still sitting at Googles Labs, and they call it Google Trends. Fark recently featured the discovery under “obvious” tag, so I went to check it out, and guess what, I came out… blushing
Here is why. Go here and search for the word “sex” (don’t worry, [...]
Some sad facts: Middle Eastern audiences are literally disconnected from the rest of the world and the rest of their countrymen. Less than four per cent of people in the Arab world are internet users, according to ITU data. The penetration rate is just 3.7% - in a region with an 8.59% penetration in landline [...]
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 local summit on the same topic. One might think that a world conference on improving global Internet access represents a prime chance for the government to [...]
Via: Global Voices Online
Rebecca MacKinnon
As Tunisia prepares to host the controversial World Summit on the Information Society in November, Tunisian opposition activist Neila Charchour Hachicha informs Global Voices that the online freedom of speech protest site launched by Tunisians on Monday, www.yezzi.org has already been blocked by the Tunisian authorities.
The online protest, called “Freedom of [...]
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? [...]
An effort to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, right down to the molecular level has been launched by IBM and a Swiss university team. Called the “Blue Brain” project, it will involve building a custom-made supercomputer based on IBM’s Blue Gene design.
The hope is that the virtual brain will help [...]
Want to have breast implants but worried they may not be so pleasing to God? Wondering if the marketing campaign devised to boost your business is spiritually sound? If you are a Shia looking for guidance, what you may find useful is your very own online ayatollah - a sort of electronic agony aunt with [...]
This is Globalization 3.0. In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to [...]
Searching google for only the word “blog” resulted in 199,000,000. On the other end over 2,850,000 Google results for “Sorry, I haven’t posted in a while”!
What is blogging process?
These are the “Ten Things I (he) Believe Bloggers Do Wrong.” And these are the “Titles of Blog Entries I’ve (he) Decided Not to Write.”
If you like [...]
In an interview (in Arabic) with our Jordanian blogger friend, Ammar with ‘Ammannet‘ (Amman Network Radio), the interview distinguished the work done by Jordanian bloggers in projects such as JordanPlanet.net, Arablogger.com and Arablog.net.
Here is some Excerpt from the interview script (in Arabic), which is titled, “Young People Making Their Own Media. Jordanian Bloggers Publishing Their [...]
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Part of the foundation of Lumeta has been a long-term research project to collect routing data on the Internet. The project consists of frequent path probes, one to each registered Internet entity. From this, trees are built showing the paths to most of the networks on the Internet.
These paths change over time, as routes reconfigure [...]
The article appeared in Al Wasat and Al Hayat news papers on 24/02/05. Titled: “Personal Diaries Threatening The Written Media: Young Bloggers Bridging Between Arab And The Virtual World.”
Commentary — http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-history-jewwatch-frank-weltner.html
Frank Weltner
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Frank Weltner, known on WGNU radio as “Couch Potato” since 1992, is a scholar of Jewish history and organizations who has been openly castigated by many persons of Jewish descent, especially in the press, because of his openness and honesty.
Frank Weltner is an activist who is committed to [...]
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 [...]
An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such implant tested in humans so far.
In June 2004, surgeons implanted a device containing 100 electrodes into the motor cortex [...]
What if hackers were motivated not by loneliness or greed, but by malice? Some experts now think a global cybercrisis is inevitable.
If you wanted to write a science-fiction thriller about the day the Internet crashed, you?d start with a computer geek. Armed with nothing but a laptop and a high-speed Internet connection, he releases a [...]
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