Current Affairs

Blogging is a very curious experience. When I began blogging a long time ago, I confess I never thought I was going to have so many readers. Yes, this blog is not a very good example, but if you sum up, the visits from all my blogs (Las Noticias de Eurabia, Eurabian News, Eurabian News II, The Anti-Jihad Pundit and the last Anti-Jihad Pundit -the only one in which I really write lately-), you can see that in less than a year we (my companions at EN are also included) have been quite prolific.

There are sometimes in which blogging has been very good both to read different point of views and also to get to some conclusions about the subjects in which I have been reading and writing.

In Spain, though the right-wing blogosphere is somewhat developed, I cannot say that we have had so much importance as in US. Internet is not used in such proportions, although I really think the number of Internet reading and users is growing.

Anyway, whatever our importance is -at least, some are very important- we are not journalists. That is why I was so surprised when I read so much controversy about some news which were very shocking: the Iranian Dress Code. The news were that Iran was going to impose Badges on Non-Muslim people and it resulted in a hoax. As a result the Canadian National Post, the paper which published it, suffered severe critics.

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It appeared in an Italian television…

Tags: Italy, Spain, Zapatero

Tha Canadian National Post published some news about a law that would make Christians, Jews or Zoroastrians wear different colors each. Anyway, it looks like it is not true, BUT there are reports that says that this and other measures could have been at least thrown around or considered. I have written about it here.

Oh oh:

Until now the Internet has been a uniquely bottom-up, nonhierarchical, seamless form of global communication. But all that is changing, as governments, multinational companies and individuals battle for control over the digital landscape. Nations are arguing over how the Web should be governed and regulated, dragging old foreign-policy grudges into cyberspace. Countries like China, Iran, North Korea and Vietnam (why I am not surprised?) are coming up with new ways to censor citizens’ online communications, often with the help of Western multinationals. At least one, Iran, has threatened to set up its own alternative-reality Internet-as protest groups already have-the kind of thing that could wreak havoc with global Web traffic, and create confusion among users who no longer knew if the sites they peruse were legitimate.

Even as they deregulate other industries, European bureaucrats are using taxpayer money to create national Internet champions. Telecoms in the United States and Europe are battling high-tech behemoths such as Google and Microsoft over who should reap the financial benefits of the digital superhighway. Poor countries are begging rich ones for better online infrastructure, while activists urge governments and companies alike to keep Web access free and unrestricted. The bottom line? Instead of a borderless, well-functioning, economically efficient communications network, the Internet is poised to become a quagmire of special interests, competing political agendas and international bureaucracy. “Sadly, it looks like the period in which the Internet functions seamlessly is over,” says Vint Cerf, one of the Internet’s better-known creators, now “chief Internet evangelist” for Google.

This are indeed bad news. if the regulate Internet, free speech is going to be diminished really…

Tags: blogosphere, freedom of expression, Web

You can see what has happened to this filmmaker and blogger here. He has even been denied a lawyer, after he has been detained with no charges.

You can read Global Voices on Line, specially this article.

Tags: Release Hao Wu, China, freedom of expression

I am sending this post with blogdesk to see if it’s OK…

Now that I have seen the result, I can only have to say that….

It’s so good, really.

I have been using for months others such as:

1. Performancing (the best, but it sickens me out, having to look to Firefox and constantly lower the upper side of it),
2. Qumana (ehh, well, I thought it was going to be better, really, but the trackbacks -do not know why- do not function… at least to me, and my PC does not even recognise that I have Lektora installed when using Qumana), I really liked it better in 2.0 than in the 3.0 beta. Although the upload photo figure is better in the new one… -as it did not existed in the previous one-
3. Blogjet (very expensive for something not done professionally)
4. Ecto (I do not really like it, to use it you have to read a lot of instructions, I only opened it and saw that it was very complicated… so I just erased it. Well, you have to pay money too, although less…)
5. or RocketPost (more expensive than the previous ones, although you can use it free to post in one blog in blogger)
6. Flock: how on earth this one does not have the function to send trackbacks? Oh and the options for formatting posts are a little bit horrid. BUT they it has an option for writing the post in another special window, thing that I appreciate.

But I did not liked any one of them really. Neat performance, complete. It’s a pity it does not support more platforms, such as Blogger for example….

Just wishing it…. Oh and he can also introduce a plugin to Blog the selection in a browser or similar automatically, which I do not think now it has…

By the way if you use LiveJournal or MSN, you may try Semagic. It’s free and GPL.

Tags: blog editor, BlogDesk, Blogjet, Ecto, Performancing, Qumana, Wordpress, RocketPost, Semagic, blogging tool, Flock