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GlobalVoices Advocacy Summit ‘08
I share with you the Global Voices Advocacy Summit help today on 26th June 2008 at Budapest, Hungary. I apologize for posting this live blog late after the event, it was more because I arrived in Budapest at noon after a 13-hour journey, and screeched into the meeting room just before lunch.
The advocacy [...]
GlobalVoices Summit ‘08 Budapest, Hungary
I am scheduled to depart for Budapest, Hungary in a few hours to attend the Global Voices Summit 08 and also be a part of the Advocacy session a day before. In the next few days, I hope to blog extensively about the Global Voices Summit and then later maybe share my travel experience [...]
Reached Hyderabad
The carvan from Karachi has reached Hyderabad Toll Plaza at around 3:00PM and was greeted by a reception by the local PML-N leadership
RIP - KMB Going Down
Well its not news to anyone who regularly follows Karachi Metroblog but at this moment all of our current batch of authors are effectively sidelined and trashed. Sean the co-founder from Metrblogging wrote a post after he disabled all authors from the system where he states that the ongoing bickering and fighting amongst the [...]
Blog on the Move >> UPDATE: We have successfully Moved
UPDATE: We have finally moved over to the new host, I hope things are a ‘bit’ faster
Since the past few days I have been having nightmares with my host (dreamhost) either due to a fault in my system or their lackluster response to attending my frantic cries for help. Yesterday I finally pulled [...]
WiredPakistan.com Forum Hacked
It seems that WiredPakistan.com has remained in the spotlight this February. It was barely a month back on Feb 5th that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocked this website for no apparent reason, when Khalid Omar probed the PTA extensively they were slow to respond but finally after two weeks of pestering unblocked the website without [...]
Teeth Maestro on Breakfast with Dawn
Pakistani Scientist / Blogger in Nobel team
Just a few days back The Nobel Foundation announced its 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and it was doubly shared between Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al-Gore. What has made the headlines all over the globe was Al-Gore’s efforts to make a difference on the Climate Change, but little was heard about the [...]
Western Union for Adsense in Pakistan
Google Adsense has finally finalized the work for allowing Google Adsense publishers to receive their check via Western Union Quick Cash. This option is available to only individuals based in Pakistan, China, Malaysia, Philippines and five other countries, I assume these were those sore spots where publishers were facing a genuine problem in receiving [...]
Support Burma: International Bloggers’ Day
Free Burma
The junta in Burma (aka Myanmar) may have blacked out public internet access in the country in an attempt to prevent information about the military’s violent crackdown on protesting monks from getting out, but the move is proving to be too little too late. Now Free-Burma.org has announced an International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on [...]
Quinge.com
As some of the readers of my blog and those in the Pakistani blogoshpere may well know, Omer Alvie and I have been involved in a number of projects together. It started from raising funds for earthquake victims at Help-Pakistan.com, followed by the Don’t Block the Blog and the subsequent launch of Bloggers.Pakistan, with a [...]
Teeth Maestro Interviewed by Pakistani Spectator
I was recently interview by Ghazala Khan at The Pakistani Spectator - here is the published version as found on their website - I thank her and the entire Pakistani Spectator team for all the kind words they have repeatedly mentioned about me.
Interview with Dr. Awab Alvi : Blogging Maestro
Teeth Maestro is one of the [...]
Practical Internet Marketing in Pakistan with Google
Today I just wrapped up an all day session attending a workshop by Google on Practical Internet Marketing delivered by Badar Khushnood the Country Representative for Google and it was organized by Octara wrapping up the three day Media and Marketing Festival in Karachi.
I have known Badar for barely a few months and have occasionally [...]
Turkey Censors Wordpress.com
A few months back in March there was a huge circus surrounding the decision by the Turkish government to block the entire YouTube website as it hosted a video which according to the official government statement was insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Unsurprisingly the same, modern Turkey was now [...]
