Women and bloggers in the Cities of Salt
Keeping up the trend inaugurated by Time (magazine) with the nomination of “You” (the entire community of the Internet) as Time’s Person of the Year 2006, the January issue of the monthly M magazine of the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad has published a particularly interesting series of articles related to the power of the Internet. [...]
Blogging, the nihilist impulse
Media theorist and Internet activist Geert Lovink formulates a theory of weblogs that goes beyond the usual rhetoric of citizens’ journalism. Blogs lead to decay, he writes. What’s declining is the “Belief in the Message”. Instead of presenting blog entries as mere self-promotion, we should interpret them as decadent artefacts that remotely dismantle the broadcast [...]
GVdelhi2006 Summit Map
I think that the GVdelhi2006 Summit Map is ready for use even if some GV friends did not send their information yet. There will be always a possibility to add the few missing ones and complete it.
The aim of designing the GVdelhi2006 Map is to memorize the Summit and the presence of all [...]
Global ça s’épelle b.l.o.g.a.l
Je venais de rentrer de L’Inde (Delhi) où s’est tenu le sommet annuel de Global Voices du 16-17 décembre 2006 (GVdelhi2006). Pour moi c’était une occasion idéale pour rencontrer des blogueurs intéressants, venus des quatre coins du monde. J’ai découvert des jeunes ayant des expériences remarquables et une passion ardente pour un blogging de qualité. [...]
Les blogs ont-ils atteint leur apogée ?
Micro Persuasion vient de publier un billet intéressant sur l’état et les tendances du blogging et de la blogsphère dans le monde. En se basant sur des données statistiques offertes par Technorati (State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006), Alexa, Google Trends, Steve Rubel conclut que la blogsphère a atteint son point culminant.
Et même si [...]
Blogging Tunisia: Good News and Bad News
The good news is that Tunisia won’t bomb Aljazeera TV channel. It just has put an end to its diplomatic representation in Qatar and shut down its embassy in Doha. That’s what Arab regimes can do, has Houssein noticed [Fr], when they loose a battle in the information war against the pan-Arab and Qatar-based satellite channel Aljazeera. The cause of this decision was the broadcasting on October 14 of an interview with Moncef Marzouki, an opponent of the Tunisian regime, president of the Congress for the Republic (CPR, unrecognized political party) in which he called for a “civil resistance movement” against the Tunisian government. (Watch the video [Ar] )
The statement issued Wednesday 25 Oct. by the Tunisian Foreign Ministry, following the withdrawal of the Tunisian diplomats, accused Aljazeera of waging a “hostile campaign aimed at hurting Tunisia“:
« By taking deliberately malicious positions vis-a-vis Tunisia, Al-Jazeera has broken all limits and transgressed the moral rules on which journalism is based. »
In his interview with Aljazeera, the human rights activist and former president of the Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), Moncef Marzouki called for “civil disobedience, using peaceful means to impose rights and freedoms in Tunisia“. He also announced on his personal site [Fr + Ar] that he would return to Tunisia on 21 October: (…) Read more on Global Voices…
Fikra on The Bobs Awards
الأولى ضمن العشر مدونات التي ستتسابق على جائزة مراسلون بلا حدود.
الثانية ضمن عشر أفضل المدونات العربية.
و بهذا تدخل مسابقة المدونات لعام 2006 مرحلتها النهائية. و ستتنافس 150 مدونة المتبقية و الموزعة على 15 فئة، من بين 5.500 التي تم إقتراحها هذه السنة، على المرتبة الأولى.
ستجتمع هيئة التحكيم العالمية في يوم 10 نوفمبر لتحديد الفائزين بجائزتها، وسيعلن عن الفائزين في اليوم التالي خلال الحفل الختامي الذي سيـُعقد بالعاصمة الألمانية برلين.
إذا ما أردتم التصويت على مدونتي فكرة الرجاء زيارة هذه الصفحة (بالعربية) :
Je suis heureux de vous annoncer que mon blog a été désigné, 2 fois, par le jury du BOBS-Awards 2006, parmi les 10 meilleurs blogs dans les catégories :
Prix Reporters sans Frontières
Et Parmi les 10 Meilleurs blogs Arabes
Le concours international de blogs “The BOBs - Best of the Blogs” de la Deutsche Welle entre dans sa phase finale. Plus de 5.500 blogs répartis en 15 catégories ont été proposés. Dix candidats ont été désignés dans chaque catégorie pour concourir en finale. Le 10 novembre, le jury international des BOBs se réunit à Berlin pour désigner ses lauréats.
Du 23 octobre au 11 novembre, 150 blogs répartis dans 15 catégories se livrent au vote des internautes.
Si vous désirez voter pour mon blog fikra prière de visitez cette page (en Français) :
http://www.thebobs.com/index.php?l=fr&s=11…47OMDFOOVR-NONE
I am very happy to announce you that my blog Fikra is nominated amoung the finalists of “The BOBs - Best of the Blogs” , twice:
First among the 10 best Bloggers nominated for that honor by Reporters Without
Borders.
Fikra has also been nominated among the best 10 blogs in the category of Best Weblog Arabic
The German radio station Deutsche Welle has just published the list of 10 nominees for each of the categories including a
“freedom of expression” category.
Contest results will be announced on November 11 in the German capital, Berlin
So if you’d please vote for my blog fikra, you can do so on this page (in English):
http://www.thebobs.com/index.php?l=en&s=11…79QQCXSYUE-NONE
Blogging Tunisia: ban, censorship and more censorship…
The major issue that has attracted the attention of the Tunisian bloggers in the last two weeks was the campaign against the Islamic veil launched by the Tunisian regime to wipe out what senior officials describe as “sectarian dress”. This last depiction finds its roots in the decree “108″, pioneering legal bans on the veil, issued in the early 80’s at the height of the confrontation between the authorities and Islamists.
This time, before persecuting women of flesh and blood, and before forbidding them to wear veils in schools and government offices, the Tunisian regime has inaugurated the new academic year by cracking down toy shops across the country in search for, Fulla, the dark-eyed doll. The doll with “Muslim values” which has been introduced in November 2003 has quickly swept Middle East markets, replacing American Barbie and becoming a best-seller all over the region, The New York Times said.
Blogging Tunisia: whisper!
Roughly a year ago, the Tunisian weekly newspaper, Tunis Hebdo has published an article about the Tunisian Blogs [Fr] in which the author, Zouhour Harbaoui, shaped a frivolous image of the Tunisian Blogs as a matter of all and nothing. The reactions of the bloggers, whether on Tunis Hebdo online or on their blogs, were furious. While welcoming the first article on a national newspaper talking about them, bloggers were upset by the way the author treated their sphere. They accused the journalist of misunderstanding the new medium and not taking a deep look into the Tunisian blogsphere. Some of them even have asserts that blogging in Tunisia is an alternative to the national press and that the Tunisian blogs are filling the vacuum that the mainstream media have created.
