Cuban blogger Reinaldo Escobar, husband of Yoani Sanchez was today prevented from debating an agent who he had challenged to a public debate. A violent mob organized by agents of state security dressed in civilian clothes (seen taking Reinaldo Escobar away) seized Escobar and led him away before he was able to meet the man he was going to debate in public.
This is the second attack on Cuban bloggers in just over a week. It also comes on the heels of the report released by the Human Rights Watch which criticizes the Cuban government and Raul Castro of doing nothing to change the policies of Fidel Castro. the report can be found here: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/11/18/cuba-ra-l-castro-imprisons-critics-crushes-dissentCuban blogger Reinaldo Escobar, husband of Yoani Sanchez was today prevented from... more
The secret life of Dr. Brooke Magnanti, an obscure research scientist, is revealed today as she unmasks herself as the writer behind the pseudonym Belle de Jour.The secret life of Dr. Brooke Magnanti, an obscure research scientist, is revealed... more
With the job market still in the doldrums, the tech-savvy unemployed are trying to figure out new ways to use Twitter to find jobs.
Twitter can be used to post a job, ask around about one, learn more about a potential boss or keep your network of former co-workers and friends updated on your job hunt.
Best of all, it's free, and faster than Facebook.
Microblogging services like Twitter sound simple, but it can be really hard. If you're a serious "Twitterer," you have to fit incredibly complicated opinions into a compact 140 characters. That's a real art. So why shouldn't it be considered a job skill, as well?
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Stalking bloggers on their sites in unacceptable and illegal. The blogosphere’s manners are no different to that of normal society. You CANNOT send a torrent of malicious and violent comments and e-mails to a blogger and get away with it. One of 365 along with other bloggers are going to take action. They WILL call the authorities. You CAN easily be traced. No one should have to be frightened to express their thoughts and creativity through their blogging. There is a difference between freedom of speech and threatening someone. Tread lightly or you will be eating your words behind bars. Read this piece and hear the whole story. An essential read for bloggers and supporters of blogging and the right to live in a society that is threat free.Stalking bloggers on their sites in unacceptable and illegal. The blogosphere’s... more
Paul and Rachel Chandler are a couple to envy. Still very much in love in their mid-fifties and spending their days liveblogging sailing trips around the world. Sailing trips through pirate-infested waters, where they may have gotten captured.
Perhaps it wasn't the best of ideas for the Chandlers to publicly post their position while going through areas which are known to be frequented by Somali pirates, but at least it gives us their last known whereabouts. Maybe it also gives some hope that it was merely some kind of temporary break in communication that paused their liveblogging instead of a pirate capture, but the cryptic final message of "PLEASE RING SARAH" leaves me fearing for their safety.Paul and Rachel Chandler are a couple to envy. Still very much in love in their... more
'Do you enjoy going to the bathroom enough to earn $10,000?' - That's the Charmin question being posed by the Proctor & Gamble bogroll brand. I'd like to ask a question in response... Who actually enjoys going to the loo and why?!?
Anyway, if you enjoy using public toilets in Times Square and want to be paid more to blog about that than anything worthwhile over on the Huffington Post, head on over to http://www.charmin.com/en_US/enjoy-the-go/index.php
Oh, and if you don't win and still need to go in Times Square - I recommend taking a short walk up to the 'Shops at Columbus Circle' inside the Time Warner Center. The loos, sorry, RESTROOMS, there are nice and clean and not full of homeless people or crack addicts.'Do you enjoy going to the bathroom enough to earn $10,000?' - That's the Charmin... more
If a blog is supposed to be honest & come from the heart, & the heart has hit a very deep pothole, is it fair for to their reader to listen to negativity every post? But then, how can the blogger keep the integrity of their words & feelings if they aren’t writing what’s truly happening in their life? Honesty & potential rumination or false writing & a B.S. blog? What do you think?? Read & leave comment.If a blog is supposed to be honest & come from the heart, & the heart has hit a very... more
Have you heard about the upcoming .ECO domain names led by former Vice President Al Gore? Come read my thoughts on the future of .ECO and learn how you can support it!Have you heard about the upcoming .ECO domain names led by former Vice President Al... more
Don't show off! What?! Yes! Don't show off! Why? Coz by showing off you present yourself as being higher in rank than most people around you and as a result both you and "wannabe cooler than you" will start acting foolish. You will buy bigger cars, bigger houses, more expensive phones and gadgets, etc. - all for the sake of "wannabe cooler than you", treading on all principles of common sense and respect and inflicting bad influence on environment, not to mention on society.Don't show off! What?! Yes! Don't show off! Why? Coz by showing off you present... more
Amnesty International calls on the government of Cuba to lift the travel restrictions on Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, preventing her from travelling to New York to receive an international journalism award.
This is the fourth time that Yoani Sánchez has been refused permission by the authorities to travel outside Cuba in the past two years.
Yoani Sánchez was awarded a special citation for journalistic excellence by the board of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, the oldest international award in journalism, for her writing on the Generation Y website which receives 1 million hits a month.
In Generation Y, Yoani Sánchez writes about daily life in Cuba. She was due to accept the award on Wednesday at Columbia University, in New York city.
“The Cuban authorities often routinely deny exit visas and bar from leaving their country those who, like Yoani Sánchez, express critical views of the government,” said Amnesty International’s Kerrie Howard, Americas Programme deputy director.
“Restricting freedom of movement by denying an exit visa to Yoani Sánchez constitutes an unnecessary punitive measure for the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression and association,” Kerrie Howard said.
In May, the Cuban authorities denied Sanchez permission to fly to Madrid to accept an award for digital journalism.
She is known as an outspoken advocate for freedom of expression and unrestricted access to internet. Her blog, Generaion Y has been intermittently blocked by the authorities and cannot currently be read within Cuba.Amnesty International calls on the government of Cuba to lift the travel restrictions... more
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