Category: Blogger

  • Pakistani Scientist / Blogger in Nobel team

    Just a few days back The Nobel Foundation announced its 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and it was doubly shared between Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al-Gore. What has made the headlines all over the globe was Al-Gore’s efforts to make a difference on the Climate Change, but little was heard about the brilliant…

  • Western Union for Adsense in Pakistan

    Google Adsense has finally finalized the work for allowing Google Adsense publishers to receive their check via Western Union Quick Cash. This option is available to only individuals based in Pakistan, China, Malaysia, Philippines and five other countries, I assume these were those sore spots where publishers were facing a genuine problem in receiving their…

  • Support Burma: International Bloggers’ Day

  • Free Burma

    The junta in Burma (aka Myanmar) may have blacked out public internet access in the country in an attempt to prevent information about the military’s violent crackdown on protesting monks from getting out, but the move is proving to be too little too late. Now Free-Burma.org has announced an International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on…

  • Quinge.com

    As some of the readers of my blog and those in the Pakistani blogoshpere may well know, Omer Alvie and I have been involved in a number of projects together. It started from raising funds for earthquake victims at Help-Pakistan.com, followed by the Don’t Block the Blog and the subsequent launch of Bloggers.Pakistan, with a…

  • Teeth Maestro Interviewed by Pakistani Spectator

    I was recently interview by Ghazala Khan at The Pakistani Spectator – here is the published version as found on their website – I thank her and the entire Pakistani Spectator team for all the kind words they have repeatedly mentioned about me. Interview with Dr. Awab Alvi : Blogging Maestro Teeth Maestro is one…

  • Practical Internet Marketing in Pakistan with Google

    Today I just wrapped up an all day session attending a workshop by Google on Practical Internet Marketing delivered by Badar Khushnood the Country Representative for Google and it was organized by Octara wrapping up the three day Media and Marketing Festival in Karachi. I have known Badar for barely a few months and have…

  • Turkey Censors WordPress.com

    A few months back in March there was a huge circus surrounding the decision by the Turkish government to block the entire YouTube website as it hosted a video which according to the official government statement was insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Unsurprisingly the same, modern Turkey was now up in…

  • Teeth Maestro v3.0

    Barely over three years back on July 6th 2004 was the release of the first ever post made by this blogger on the world wide web. Three years seems like a long time, but it has been fun. This fad started off like just one of those geeky itches, an attempt to explore the latest…

  • Plagiarism in Pakistani Blogosphere – WeCite

    With an ever growing community of Pakistani bloggers the arena has started to become seriously competitive and each new blogger wants to make his/her mark on the online community. The best way to get a decent readership is to publish more frequently with new ideas and thoughts, this frenzy leads to a desperate hunt for…

  • ABCN Interview

    It has been purely by coincidence that I was invited to another radio show to share my opinions on the Chief Justice issue. This time it was by Asian Broadcasting Network in Chicago which airs on 1590 WONX. A weekly Urdu show which airs every Sunday from 12:00pm to 3:00pm (CST). I was invited into…

  • Voice of America covers Pakistani Bloggers

    Voice of America did a one hour round table discussion calling in four different bloggers from across the world into a telephonic round table discussion The guests were Adil Najam of Pakistaniat.com, Ramla Akhtar of Next> by Ramla blog, Hakim of micropakistan.org and wrapping up the talk with myself as the fourth speaker. The host…

  • Disucssion List for White Band for Justice

    In an attempt to ensure a smooth flow of communication I have just now started a mailing list for all those volunteers wanting to be a part of the Proud-Pakistanis network. Our goal is simply a-political and aim solely to promote efforts that help our nation Pakistan. If you are Proud to be a Pakistani…

  • PTCL Fumbles the Censorship to Block Millions of Websites

    Over the past few days PTCL has been up to mischief yet again but this time rather then irritating the 0.001% of the population (the blogger class) they stepped on some giant kick-ass toes. They ended up blocking giants like Google.com, Download.com, Microsoft.com, Gmail.com, Yahoo.com, BBC, CNN, Systematic, Akamai, PC World, MTV, Best Buy, Logitech…

  • Don’t Block the Blogs 1st Year Anniversary

    Press Release – Don’t Block the Blog Continues to Fight Pakistan’s Internet Blockade at the 1st Year Anniversary It has been exactly one year since the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority initiated a blanket block on the entire blogspot.com domain. So far there seems no recourse to the ban despite the repeated attempts of a strong lobby…