Category: Technology
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Stop the Political Clash of Civilizations
If you are like one of the millions of people who feel that the leaders of the world should stop running around in circles and start working to finally solving the Middle East Crisis, if you are one of those pro-peace activist, then you should definitely join hands with Avaaz.org. Avaaz is the voice of…
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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…
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Yeh Hum Naheen – Say No to Terrorism
Yeh Hum Naheen¸ (This is NOT us) is an NGO headed by Waseem Mahmood and a number of like minded popular Pakistani vocalists have choosen to join hands and raise their voice on behalf of the Muslim world coming together in the form of a an amazing soul touching sound track, featuring names like Haroon,…
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Online freedom of Speech – Global Voices
Sami Ben Gharbia the recently appointed Advocacy Director of Global Voices has done a very extensive review of the censorship situation in Pakistan which also includes a very interesting interview with Omer Alvie discussing the issue in quite extensive detail. Link: Pakistan: Online freedom of speech as collateral damage? Do also have a look at…
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Bush’s ongoing War on Terror
This video is hilarious, takes Bush’s War on Terror to an different level altogether – Enjoy
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Teeth Maestro Open to Guest Bloggers
Teeth Maestro’s blog has been running on the steam generated by its owner Dr. Awab Alvi for over two years and counting, I remain grateful to the hundreds and thousands who have visited this blog to read my ramblings on wide variety of topics, this blog continues to be updated simply for the love of…
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Pakistan Blogging Situation – Update
For the past few days especially yesterday I have exchanged a number of emails around the globe to figure out a solution for the deteriorating blogging condition in Pakistan which started a few days back as reported by Don’t Block the Blog, Press Release of 3rd February and also my blog, I have a few…
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Web 2.0 Phenomenon Explained
Quite a number of people ask what exactly is Web 2.0, many definitions exist but no definition can adequately describe this phenomenon as this video tries to do in a brief 4:31 minutes. I assure you, you will come out having understood the entire concept and still yet not be able to write a proper…
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Bloggers Pakistan gets a Face-lift
After many days of procrastination, I finally got down to doing a revamp of the blog aggregator that we run at bloggers.pk. Barely two months back in early December I quit on the ever faithful wordpress CMS system simply because it was not designed to be an efficient aggregator. I moved away from WordPress and…
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Pakistan Blog Alert ! Do Not Upgrade to Blogger Beta
The Don’t Block the Blog campaign would like to issue a Blog Alert to all Pakistani bloggers on blogspot.com to resist the temptation to upgrade to Blogger Beta, the improved version of the Google Blogging platform. It apparently seems that once the blogger upgrades to Blogger Beta, all hell breaks loose as the proxy servers…
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Bypass the Blogspot Ban via SSH
The woes for Pakistani Internet users continue, it seems as if we have slowly learned to live life half crippled with no one bothering to have a second look at us. Blogspot has been blocked in Pakistan for around eleven months with absolutely no sign of relief, but despite all hurdles created by our own…
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Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan
I would like to announce the creation of Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan, it is just a blog created out of necessity since we felt an apparent absence of one concise place where bloggers from Pakistan can come and write about the Pakistani perspective on the world of cricket. There is little doubt that this blog…
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Teeth Maestro’s Blog Stats
There is little doubt that statistics are the bread and butter for any blogger, practically all bloggers have an addiction to look at their statistics page on a daily basis to see the rise and fall of their blog readership. For many bloggers these stats are probably the closely guarded secrets and I too have…
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iPhone – iWant
Steve Jobs typical of his Keynote Address at Mac Expo, being held in San Francisco has created yet another tsunami ripple affect across the globe, when he announced the soon to be released (June 2007) iPhone. Literally all the geek, Mac & gadgetry blogs are lapping up at this brilliant creation which is bound to…
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Bitwine – Professional Advice over Skype
I have for sometime been interested in highlighting different ways with which the tremendous talent in Pakistan is able to tap into the global market and make a buck or two in the process, since we continue to face a number of hurdles which include visas to economic restrictions by the Government of Pakistan. The…