Generally, I like to read blogs that let you do more than just ‘read’ text the way you’d read a printed publication. Otherwise, I find it a bit of a pain trying to plough through a thousand words on a computer screen. Blogs that link to multimedia content, where you can click to see images or watch videos or even to other blogs and websites are the ones that I find more interesting, possibly because they make better use of all of the wonderful things you can do on the Internet. Read more
With Pakistan in the midst of turmoil, it’s interesting to read some of the blogs by Pakistanis. On The Dawn blog, Musadiq Sanwal followed the lawyers’ Long March and blogged everyday till Day Five, when Zardari relented and resinstated Iftikhar Chaudhry as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His blog provides details of what he saw unfolding during the event, including how he spotted a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) flag inside the Chief Justice’s house after victorious crowds thronged the place. Read more
A recent Supreme Court ruling on bloggers’ rights could have a huge impact on blogging in India. In a recent case where a 19-year-old blogger had sought the court’s protection against criminal charges filed against him by the Shiv Sena (which was irked by some comments on a blog started by the blogger), a bench of the court Read more
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