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Apr 8 2011, Byron Clark

Yesterday I reported that the New Zealand Press Association is closing its doors after over 130 years. So goes a staple of the old media. I got most of my information from the website of 3News, the country’s main evening news programme, though when it..

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Tulips, Peshawar
The hard-line Fars news agency has reported that Derakhshan is facing a number of charges, including working with “hostile” governments, propaganda against...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Torrea’s blog, Ciudad Juárez, en la sombra del narcotráfico (Ciudad Juárez, in the Shadow of Drug Trafficking), which she started in October, took fifth place...
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Wa'd, Amman
I was looking through my list of URLs today, many of which I haven’t visited in a long time, and I found the address to my first blog ever. I opened it and read...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Here is the dishonorable list of the Ten Worst countries for bloggers. The list is not surprising, not the inclusion of Tunisia or China. It is in these countries...
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Ari Rusila, Jyväskylä
16th April is the Blog Reader Appreciation Day organized by Bloggers Unite***. Bloggers depend on loyal readers but rarely thank them. The event gives bloggers a change...
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Shiv, india
From The Times of India: A 19-year-old blogger’s case could forever change the ground rules of blogging. Bloggers may no longer express their uninhibited views...
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It has been observed that Instablogs have become inert and there is very little activity. Let us all put our mind and brainstorm on how to make this more...
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Incognito, Atlanta
Imagine being jailed for simply blogging about your conversion to Christianity or for criticizing your government or your religion, but this is exactly what is...
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Anil, Delhi
Vir Sanghvi, the versatile and prolific writer, son of the more versatile journalist father, has preferred to ventilate his pent-up comments on the sad development in...
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Michael C, Lyon
I was lucky enough to discover the joys and pleasures of reading at a very early age. In fact, I have, since, read nearly every western classic there is to read! And...
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Denis, Geneve
During last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai , new technology reacted to the news faster than traditional media services. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs featured...
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Samiya Anwar, Hyderabad
There is a boom of social networking websites on Internet .The newer social networking sites like orkut, wayn, myspace not only helps in building social contacts but...
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Gal, Jerusalem
Blogs exemplify the best and worst attributes of the Internet (and human nature). At their worst, blogs can be untruthful, bad sources of news and gossip. But without...
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Maynard, Manila
By Maynard Delfin, Regional Editor Gone are the days that aspiring writers need to save money to get published. The advent of blogging makes articles as near as one...
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Dania, Damascus
The 22 years old Moroccan Blogger Mohamed Erraji was arrested on the 5th of September over an article he wrote entitled “The King Encourages His Subject’s...
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Diane, Edmonton
NOTE: This is a story that I wrote on our Success Blog Net I felt it worthy to copy it here to help remind everyone of those not able to be at home. In times past,...
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Pooja, Shimla
Most of those arrests are in countries with oppressive regimes, such as Egypt, China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. But bloggers have been arrested in Canada, France, Greece,...
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John, Kampala
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’’s blog chances are...
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John, Kampala
There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to...
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Bobette, New Orleans
What to write about, what can I share, something about me or just a general topic? Either way I reveal a bit of me every time , yes? Do I really want to share anymore...
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I landed here at instablogs by accident; surfing the internet one day. It has only been a month and I feel it was not “coincidence” but good fortune that brought me...
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Sarah, Cairo
I believe the Egyptian education system (Thanaweya Amma) is there to kill the spirit of our youth, and break them into demotivated, frustrated, hopeless young adults....
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There was an instablog newslink that loudly announced “Indian American jailed for stealing 9/11 funds” and the link lead to the original news item from...
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Is there any basis for this low rank ? India is shown way below Iceland (1), Lithuania (23), Bosnia and Herzegovina (34), UAE (48) and Lebanon (98). The article is as...
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Ranulfo, Brooklyn
This was the title of a panel I joined at the Social Media Influence event earlier this week in London. It was a slightly tongue-in-cheek question from Matthew Yeomans,...
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Muhammad Karim, Durban
Cartoon depicting the effect of the Xenophobia attacks on South Africa’s image by famed South African cartoonist, Zapiro The current situation in South Africa...
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Bharat, Shimla
Some of the blogging community are worried that blogging for a living could be bad for your health. The constant need to publish new and exciting facts is putting...
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They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a...
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Mandira S, Hyderabad
Even though I just recently started blogging in October 2007– after I closed my hedge fund — I first began to understand that there was some real money to...
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Ankit, New Delhi
t’s a question that’s been bugging me profoundly since I got into blogging over a year ago. Blogs are cheap, easy, efficient, wildly easy to find on the Net, super...
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Kevin, Manchester
The government investigation, which was reported by state-run news outlets here, was touched off by bloggers in China who were outraged that a 41-year-old man had been...
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Vikas Shekhawat, Churu, Rajasthan
The latest hypocritical law passed by French Constitutional Council criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional...
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Vikas Shekhawat, Churu, Rajasthan
Certainly, there can be no pact between a lion and a man, however, when the lion is rendered toothless, apparently, the dagger rules the game on the battlefield. And...
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Ankit, New Delhi
An intersting post by Jeremiah Owyang helping the new bloggers. This is relevant for even those who had been blogging for sometime but could not make good impact with...
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