UPDATE already started, thanks for Sabbah for the photo. More photos on flickr
In few minutes (sorry for not announcing earlier). The 2nd GlobalVoices summit will start. GVO Editors, bloggers and journalists will be participating.
You can join online by listening to the live webcast, check the live blog and …
Aljazeera responds to the leaked memo about US wanting to bomb their HQ using web 2.0 tools. They are blogging in first person narrative of personal stories just like bloggers do and allowing comments. They are using flickr. They are tagging the photos. They chose a creative commons license …
I ran out of passport sized photos. I went to a professional photographer Kodak Spot to get my self a decent photo so I could use to apply for military education. Look if you don't know what is military education, don't ask. It is the most ridiculous thing ever.
And …
Global Voices Online (GVO) won the best English language journalistic award in the 2005 Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards!
Global Voices is a remarkable blog that brings the voices of international bloggers to the attention of the rest of the world. It is an organization launched from the Berkman Center …
Was responsible for many bruises I have right now.
Today, windsurfing was fantastic, but really harsh for me. I returned home exhausted, fatigued and discovered a good number of bruises.
Anna should have docked in front of the Manesterly palace today. She is a Greenpeace sail boat, originally built in …
I found about 300 Egyptian blogs not in the blogring. Most of the blogs are by Egyptians born or living in U.S. Many of them R stILL iN sCHOol dUDE with horrible graphics and style. Some even don't render properly and I think all of these blogs are not …
I have just finished reading the Handbook For Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents released today by Reporters Without Borders. The 86 pages PDF is easy to read, although written by several authors, most of the authors did a good job in this area.
Before I started reading it, I expected it to …
Wow, it is a superb feeling just as soon as the wind pushes your sail and your board start running fast on the surface of the water.
I am going to take windsurfing more seriously. I finished 3 courses till now. Although I don't stay for long on the board …
Google did it. A clone of technorati's service, but a googlized version of it. It is quite neat and very responsive. Well it feels like any other google service.
Mohamed, from Cairo asks a good question:
Seems that the only reason blogs get mentioned is politics, and seems that the only people whom are interested in Egyptian politics are non-Egyptians! In order to balance things abit, I've written an article about blogs, from a total non-political perspective, and am …