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Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Attention to all bloggers and commentors

By Falak Sher Khan • Apr 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

This note is to all the bloggers kindly take forethoughts before writing any article or writing any comments. Some of our writers and bloggers are using sexual based terms but keep in mind that there are young readers too and comments on them written are way out of limits. My humble requests please give some [...]



Our Electronic Responsibilities

By Yasir Imran • Mar 6th, 2009 • Category: Misc

There are thousands of websites who are publishing hateful literature for Islam and Muslims, recently I saw a blog publishing poor articles about our holy prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H). Immediately I submitted a complain about that blog at Wordpress team as the blog was hosted with them.
But it is hard for any online community site to [...]



Google’s Sergey Brin Blog : http://too.blogspot.com/

By Gul Raiz • Sep 20th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Even the starting of the blog by a giant like Sergey Brin is a breaking news. Where it gives a valuable insight into the world’s leading innovator, it also gives a huge  boost to the blogging community and adds up to the mounting efficacy and reach of blogging media.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin launched his personal [...]



‘World’s oldest blogger’ dies at 108

By Saleem Khan • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Misc

An Australian woman often described as the world’s oldest blogger has died at the age of 108 after posting a final message about her ailing health but how she sang “a happy song, as I do every day.”

Olive Riley died Saturday at a nursing home in New South Wales.
Olive Riley posted more than 70 [...]



Living with Free Speech

By Dan Tow • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

You may believe me or not, but I wrote the following article, which is unaltered except for this new opening paragraph, before the recent bombing at the Danish embassy gave tragic illustration of the sad folly and irreplaceable human losses that can result from hideous over-reaction to the words or images of a handful of [...]



Free Speech on The Pakistani Spectator

By Dan Tow • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

I will begin with a few remarks inspired by the responses to my last article Limits of Free Speech: Based on those insightful responses, I think that earlier article (which focused on the legal issues behind free speech) missed the more important question, which is how best to live with the moral responsibilities of free [...]



Fouad Farhan, Saudi Blogger Released

By Fatima Tassaduq • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Misc

A Saudi blogger detained without charge for more than four months after expressing pro-reform opinions has been released, a colleague said on Saturday.
Fouad Farhan was detained in early December after running an online campaign over 10 men arrested since February 2007 on suspicion of financing militant groups, but whose supporters say they are being punished [...]



Comments on Blog Should be Moderated or Not?

By Ali Yar Khan • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Misc

Blogging is one of the best thing happened to the mankind since the information revolution and it’s the most cherished and promising hallmark of this so-called information age, and the most passionate fact is that it is here to stay with full might and bang.
Blogging, when it is taken in the context of the modern [...]



Muballigh at Twitter

By The Pakistani Spectator • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Just came to know about this Twitter based service
http://twitter.com/muballigh
In case you are not aware about Twitter: Wikipedia
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, [...]



The Power of Ideas

By Dan Tow • Jan 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

It is an old truism that the pen is mightier than the sword, but what, exactly, lies behind the “power of the pen”? Ideas are the key, and they are as powerful as any force on Earth.
Consider how humans change the world. Using our own bodies and muscles, our power is no greater than any [...]