I've loved Firefox since the day I installed it. I was an early member of Spreadfirefox.com and have been evangelising it prior to version 1. I even had my name in the New York Times as part of an advert for Firefox 1.0.
Sadly, almost four years ...
Views: 67 | 1 Comment » | posted on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | Tags: firefox, webkit
In 2004, the Howard Dean campaign in the United States blazed the way in taking the election campaign online. Dean not only raised more than anyone else online, but more importantly also pioneered the use of the internet to gather and mobilise suppor...
Views: 38 | No Comments » | posted on Saturday, September 1st, 2007 | Tags: elections, Howard Dean, media, politics, social media, united states
Last week, a Turkish court issued an order to block WordPress.com in Turkey. Yes, the whole of WordPress.com, which hosts more than a million blogs.
The blocking of is a result of a defamation claim brought by Adnan Oktar (aka Harun Yahya), who c...
Views: 140 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, August 24th, 2007 | Tags: AK Party, blogging, censorship, free speech, Islamists, Turkey
The treatment of Iraqis at Jordan's Queen Alia Airport triggered a storm in the Middle Eastern blogosphere. What at first seemed to be a straightforward story of refugees being ill-treated by their neighbour's security guards has spawned into a pan-A...
Views: 40 | No Comments » | posted on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 | Tags: blogging, iraq, jordan, middle east, stories
