Teeth Maestro

Category: Blogger

  • 100,000 Satisfied Customers

    Today can be marked as a major milestone for this blog, it has little meaning to anyone apart from creating a milestone for myself. Teeth Maestro’s Blog has crossed the landmark of having served 100,000 unique visitors on this website (since May 2005). Teeth Maestro previously existed on blogspot until the migration to my own…

  • TAG IT! on Bloggers.Pakistan

    Bloggers.Pakistan now boasts another nifty feature called TAG IT! A community driven tagging system perfectly designed to improve the overall blog reading experience for everyone using Pakistan’s First and Only Blog Aggregator – www.bloggers.pk. In the first week of launch we have processed over 70 applications of which a few are still pending due to…

  • Bloggers.Pakistan Launched

    We (Omer Alvie and Dr. Awab Alvi) are pleased to announce the launch of Pakistan’s first and only Blog Aggregator at www.bloggers.pk, a one-stop site to preview what is being said in the Pakistani blogosphere. It started off as a casual discussion between two chat-buddies which slowly took the shape of a massive effort to…

  • Blogspot Blocked AGAIN

    Well our celebrations from the last post, were indeed short lived as the PTA has again resumed the blocking of the entire blogspot domain. As of today, 6th May 2006 5:00pm, after a brief relief of three precious days for the internet surfing society of Pakistan, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority appears to have again resumed…

  • PTA Unblocks Blogspot

    In a very surprising move the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has just recently unblocked the entire blogspot domain. Credit must go out to Don’t Block the Blog team (Omer Alvie & myself) and the Action Group Against Blogspot Ban in Pakistan. It was a combined effort from both groups to have created enough pressure to undo…

  • Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace concludes

    The final day of the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace ended with probably one of the best technical sessions of the event, it was titled “Internet Security” and was conducted by Ethan Zuckerman of Berkman Center / Global Voices, and Nart Villeneuve of Citizenlab. Both were well versed in the security aspects and gave an…

  • Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace (Day 2)

    The second day of the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace was quite interesting to say the least, which covered issues of technology and legal implications on free speech movement Issac Mao, hails from China and talked about some very interesting ways how the Chinese by pass the GFW (Great Fire Wall). The authorities maintain a…

  • Silencing the Pakistani Blogs

    On the start of the second day of the Freedom of Expression in Asian Cyberspace conference, I was chosen to project the efforts of Don’t Block the Blog. The PowerPoint presentation is Silencing the Pakistani Blogs PowerPoint presentation (1 MB), an audiopodcast is available in MP3 here(6.4 MB), while I also enclose the entire text…

  • Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace (Day 1)

    Today concluded the first day of the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace Conference. A large number of speakers from across the region spoke at lengths highlighting the battles of free speech being fought within their own countries. Check out the presentations and video clips of all the sessions at Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace Blog.…

  • Free Expression Conference in Manila

    Southeast Asian Press Alliance has organized a conference titled Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace and is being hosted at the Asian Management Institute in Manila, Philippines. I have been invited to represent the Don’t Block the Blog campaign in the conference and will be giving a speech titled “Silencing the Pakistani Blogs” which will show…

  • Cough – Cough – I’m Back

    For the past week my website was undergoing a series of heart attacks and strokes…. My previous hosting solution was up for renewal, though I was satisfied with them for the past 4 years, but in the mean time I had acquired a whole bunch of new domains which surprisingly totalled to be a good…

  • Slap the Block

    The creative mind of a few local Pakistanis Yasir Memon & Naveed – has created this nifty utility for those individuals in Pakistan stuck behind the Government supported censorship on our Internet The way this service works is that you can simply go-to http://www.pkblogs.com/blogname where blogname is “blogname.blogspot.com” Alternatively head on over to www.pkblogs.com –…

  • Don’t Block the Blog – 2

    Just a progress report on the Censorship Campaign organized by our own administration. I am embarrassed to point out that the blockage still exists, it now can be understood as NOT an innocent mistake but more as an organized ploy to deliberately block all blogs. No progress has been made to alleviate this blockage and…

  • Don’t Block the Blog

    As I write this post on the morning of 4th March 2006 all sub domains of Blogspot.com carrying thousands of free blogs continue to remain censored for all internet users in Pakistan. The mess all started on the 27th of February when the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority issued instructions to all ISP to block all websites…

  • Tag me along

    I’ve been tagged with a few interesting questions by Zag……..