Posts Tagged with ‘news’

Amidst pressure and even torture - liberal Egyptians struggle to be heard! Let Our Bloggers Go! I wrote a post on the 24thabout an Egyptian blogger who was sentenced to prison for criticizing the power structure in Egypt. Abdel Kareem Suleiman was imprisoned for 4 years after al-Azhar University filed a complaint about 8 articles he [...]

The New York Times is doing it. The Financial Times is doing it. A great number of other reputable newspapers are doing it. What am I speaking of? Blogging. David Pogue of NYT fame (Circuits writer) regularly submits items to Pogue’s Posts, a collection of informal writeups about stuff not quite column-worthy or stuff that [...]

It’s almost impossible to find everything you want on the web. Comments made by a couple of folks in response to a recent article (authored by myself) prove that theory handily. By the way, guys, thanks for the tips. The comments to “What Makes a Start Page” highlighted the lack of a mention of two [...]

Review: Megite RSS aggregator service. The ability to read ALL your feeds on one website everyday. I find explaining RSS and feeds to a newbie is as confusing and frustrating as explaining what the Internet was to everyone back in 1994. What is it? How does it work? How is it different than a webpage [...]