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Archive for October, 2006

Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested

In a very interesting turn of events, the administrator of a Greek RSS aggregating service blogme.gr got sued, arrested and jailed by the Greek cybercrime division for hosting a link to a blog with offending content, after having been served with a libel lawsuit without prior notice, because a public figure was offended by a [...]

Mahmood TV Blog Blocked in Bahrain

Pakistanis don’t need to be told how much it can hurt to be at the receiving end of a censorship on their own blog, we sadly have had a massive blockade on the entire Blogspot.com cordoning off more then 10 million blogs for over 11 months and counting. Its sad to note that a few [...]

Oct 8th 2006 – Pakistan Earthquake Blog Day

In response to our call for observing a Blog Day to commeorate the Earthquake which struck Pakistan a year back, the blogging community came out in full force here is an ongoing list of post a tribute to the fallen and may it serve to rekindle the hope of the suffering Pakistan Earthquake Blog Day [...]

Have You Forgotten? October 8th 2005

October 8th 2005, changed Pakistan forever, at precisely 08:50:38 a massive earthquake struck the northern areas of Pakistan which devastated the entire country over 80,000 lives perished in a blink of an eye, thousands were displaced resulting in millions of dollars in damage. The entire country joined hands in unison to help the suffering, but [...]

Pkblogs & Inblogs temporarily down

On Saturday 30th of September the Pakistani blogging community suddenly woke up to see that both proxy servers Pkblogs and Inblogs were out of commission and displayed a server error on their page. When the Don’t Block the Blog team immediately contacted the owners of domains (Yasir and Naveed Memon) and were told that it [...]