Jordanian blogger Hareega on the situation in Iran: Let Iranians vote for whoever they want to, and if they’re taking the streets and are going bring down Ahmadinajhad let them do it themselves.
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When the power of the crowd can work
How has the Huffington Post been reporting the rapidly shifting changes in Iran? Blogs, YouTube, Twitter, sources, tips and a lot of caffeine: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Blogger forced to reveal his identity
I was interviewed before on ABC Radio’s World Today program: PETER CAVE: To some people the appeal of the internet is getting information out in the public domain without revealing where it’s come from. But that could change after a court in the United Kingdom ruled that bloggers have no right to anonymity. A policeman…
They blog what they see in front of their eyes
Harvard University’s Berkman Centre (where I gave a presentation last year on my book, The Blogging Revolution) have released a new report mapping the Arabic blogosphere. Some key findings that suggest Barack Obama will need to match his pretty words with far more than rhetoric: The one political issue that clearly concerns bloggers across the…
Just some friendly Zionist help
Is Israel involved in the Twitter campaign to cover the turmoil in Iran?
All we know is that the noise is growing
The latest on the crisis in Iran. Violence, state brutality, Twitter and resistance.
Seriously, Arabs are humans, right?
A Palestinian blogger comments on Israel’s proposed “loyalty” law: I am Mohammed Al Safoori. I swear by the Torah of the Jews that I will be a loyal citizen to the State of Israel, and will respect traffic regulations, pay my taxes and put up a picture of Mira Awad in my living room. I…
Shoddy behaviour will catch up with you
This news is welcome in a nation such as China where web repression is deep: A Chinese academic has successfully sued an internet company for closing his website after he posted articles on subjects including corruption and environmental issues. Hu Xingdou, professor of economics at the Beijing Institute of Technology, said he hoped his case…
Blogging may be the future, perhaps
The Sydney Writer’s Festival was a blast over the weekend. One of the highlights was speaking and hanging with the author of Stuff White People Like, Christian Lander. Funny man, a very funny and perceptive man. Writer Irfan Yusuf – whose book, Once Were Radicals, I launched a few weeks ago in Sydney – had…
