Is independent blogging really on its last legs, being subsumed by mainstream and corportaised versions of the medium?
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Why blog?
Australian blogger Amy Bradney-George on the ever-increasing importance of blogging in our media landscape: A few years back, around the beginning of 2006, I began reading blogs by friends and family as a way of keeping in touch with them. From there I realised how many people across the world are actually utilising this form…
Washington Prism on blogging
Washington Prism is a “weekly on-line journal of culture, politics and public affairs in Persian [and English], dedicated to bringing the news and views of concern from the United States and beyond to the Persian speaking countries and communities in an accurate, comprehensive and analytical manner.” I was interviewed recently by Hamid Tehrani about my…
Online Journalism Blog on The Blogging Revolution
Online Journalism Blog is one of the world’s leading spaces for discussing new media and citizen journalism. One of its key players, Paul Bradshaw, who lectures in the UK, has written the following piece about my book, The Blogging Revolution: From the Baghdad Blogger to Twittering the Chinese Earthquake, plenty has been written about the…
The Sydney Morning Herald on The Blogging Revolution
The following book review of The Blogging Revolution in the Sydney Morning Herald, by Stephen Hutcheon, was published on 1 November: In his first book, My Israel Question, Sydney author, journalist and blogger Antony Loewenstein grapple-tackled his way through the minefields of Zionism and the Jewish diaspora. In his second, The Blogging Revolution, he parachutes…
Obama and the world
Why Barack Obama should be the next President of the United States, argues leading blogger Andrew Sullivan.
Mideast Youth on blogging
Mideast Youth is an essential Bahrain-based portal for news, views and activism about online freedom in the Muslim world. I was interviewed this week about my book, The Blogging Revolution, and what online players can do to highlight ever-tightening censorship.
A fragmented Islam
How is blogging affecting the narrative and public image of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?
Pakistan from the inside
New, interesting voices in the blogosphere should be celebrated. Danielle Ali Shah is an “Australian living in Rawalpindi, Pakistan with my husband, three children and extended family.” A recent post, “Digging through the land in the land of the pure“, discusses the rawness of life in Pakistan.