Archive for April, 2006
PTA Blocks FIVE more Websites
In a recent development, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has gone further encroaching upon the the free and open Internet to block five more websites that are offending the breurcats in Islamanad. This letter was issued on the 25th of April and required all the ISP’s to comply within 24 hours.
It seems as if the [...]
Tom Peters and his Presentation Blunders
The Excellence Edge was seminar recently telecasted by Luminary Series as a series of teleconferences on promoting Management Excellence. The show was transmitted to over 60 countries worldwide and an anticipated viewer estimates was above a million viewers to have watched this show. The featured speakers were Ken Blanchard, Marcus Buckingham & Tom [...]
The Excellence Edge
Yesterday I had the chance to sit in on the live telecast speech by the three top leadership consultant gurus Ken Blanchard, Marcus Buckingham and Tom Peters. It was an event organized by Octara which took the initiative to host the satellite up-link at Sheraton Hotel in Karachi. The telecast started at 8:00pm [...]
Hu Heckled in the US
The President of China on his recent official trip was not only heckled by a Falun Gong activist during his address on the White house lawns
If this were not enough then being heckled by President George Bush, is rude enough by an annoying tug on his sleeve. Many Chinese have said that this was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Three Days of Mourning
I was in receipt of this article received by a chain of email it appears to have been written by a certain Naeem Sadiq, talks in depth about the present issue of the aftermath of the bombing in Karachi which claimed the lives of 57 people and over 100 injured
A bunch of carefree schoolboys, [...]
We Will NOT Retaliate
Today at around 7:00 pm a massive bomb blast was detonated at Nishtar Park, Karachi. Nishtar Park was the venue to a peaceful Islamic meeting which was organized to celebrate the birth of Hazrat Muhammed (PBUH), the bomb blast occurred under the main stage where the entire congregation was offering their Maghrib prayers [...]
Priceless MasterCard Commercial
A Priceless commercial by MasterCard which has been banned from appearing on public TV. Be forewarned as it is slightly rated so please proceed at your own risk……
Google Video - Banned MasterCard Commercial
Lasik@Home
Just found this interesting link for a device available to preform at home Lasik Surgery available for a cheap price of $99 ‘excluding’ S&H. Personally I would not advise anyone to even contemplate of getting a 20/20 vision by this device, click the image to the right to see the simple 4-step instruction sheet [...]
Gum That Makes Brushing Obsolete
Lets not go jumping around throwing away your toothbrushes just yet, but the future holds a new product in development that could change your nightly ritual forever and find its away into your medicine cabinet one fine day
The Wrigley Gum Company has paired up with the U.S. military to create an anti-bacterial chewing gum that [...]
Protocol That Kills
A few days back the President of Pakistan Pervaiz Musharraf graced our city to inaugurate the Expo Pakistan. Naturally a visit by him means all hell breaks loose, road blocks are placed around town resulting in massive traffic jams without even a second thought. The only and primary concern is to protect the [...]
Pakistan Censors Knowledge for Seven Hours
In a very surprising development the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority which controls the Pakistan Internet Exchange had blocked access to the entire Wikipedia.org domain at around 1:00pm on 31st March. Immediately the AGABBIP group and the Don’t Block the Blog team were set into motion. The ban was not localized to any single ISP [...]
