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Facebook, Twitter Driving Change in the MidEast
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: No longer is our best hope for change governments. If change happens, it's going to be social media fuelling the transformation.…
The Professor Detention Debate & Twitter’s Embrace
AHMED AL-OMRAN: The arrest of Mohammed al-Abdulkarim, a Saudi law professor, has unleashed a fierce debate among the Kingdom's social media community, and revealed why Twitter is such a phenomena in the Kingdom. …
Strange Searches leading to Plastic Destination
ALEXANDER MCNABB: Fake Plastic Whore Face, Tantalise your tastebuds, mish mushkila ya habibi meaning, what is mineralised water and the Nipple souk... Fake Plastic Souks is the expert on them all...…
Relationships and the Reality of Social Networks
STEVE ROYSTON: In the real world, we have lots of alternative words to describe different levels of relationship – family, colleague, acquaintance to name but a few. On Facebook, everyone is a friend.…
Top 10 Twitter Users in Saudi Arabia
AHMED AL-OMRAN: Twitter's swept the world but has it made serious inroads into Saudi Arabia? Yes! And here's my personal 'Top Ten' countdown of the Kingdom's leading Twitter users. …
Are they Messengers or Missionaries?
STEVE ROYSTON: Successful companies tend not to fire their communications people. That’s not to say that politics, ambition and personal fiefdoms won’t get in the way…
Privacy and the Law
ALEXANDER MCNABB: One month in jail and deportation for filming an actual incident and posting it online may appear madly draconian, but the UAE (and the Gulf in general, actually) has always had a fraught relationship with photography...…
PRs, Blogging, and (Not) Understanding Your Audience
Anyone that wants me to go to a launch announcement 'as a blogger' has similarly not invested the time to work out that not only do I not care, I actively do not care. I vocally and negatively do not care.…
Give the social media toddler a chance, Mr Gladwell!
The social media community has reacted emotionally to Malcolm Gladwell's calculated attack, but has he got a point? "Social media is like a toddler, but nobody yet knows what promise that toddler holds..."…
An Adventure Begins: Watching A New Life Unfold
A powerful, evocative and compellingly detailed account of the experience of starting a new life on the West Bank.…
Lebanese bloggers: pioneers in the Arab world
A recent survey of readers of the more than 400 blogs in Lebanon shows that their numbers are close to the online readership of Lebanese newspapers, but do their readership rates mean that blogs can be a tool for change?…