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Netherlands film festival showcases movies from post-invasion Iraq, giving raw glimpse of life after Saddam. ROTTERDAM, Netherlands -- "Baghdad Blogger," a movie by a well-known Web log writer who calls himself Salam Pax, reveals Iraqi resentment over the U.S. occupation -- and joy at Saddam Hussein's removal. It's among several movies to emerge from Iraq's chaos -- including Iraq's first feature-length drama since Saddam Hussein's fall and a documentary on U.S. troops fighting insurgents -- being showcased at the Rotterdam Film Festival, which features some 800 films and runs through Sunday. The documentary is a compilation of short video clips...

For some time, I've been predicting that the blogosphere would move more and more from punditry to newsgathering and reporting, in competition with (or at least in supplementation of) the traditional media. And that's been happening. We saw it with tsunami coverage, and now we're seeing it with reporting on the Iraqi elections. Some of this was pre-arranged. The Iraqi-American nonprofit partnership, Friends of Democracy, set up a central weblog collecting reports from correspondents all over Iraq. There were audio and text reports, with photos, from many different locations, producing an effect something like a news wire staffed by avid...

The poster went on to complain some more about how much this has cost our country’s reputation and continued to spout things such as “I can’t think of a single cause outside of the borders of my country that would be worth destroying my country for. And that’s what has happened, I don’t care how happy the Iraqis are.” And that, my friend, is why I will never be a liberal. I do not value my reputation higher than my values. I am not so selfish as to think that our country’s reputation or financial prosperity is more important that...

I've just started a blog, and I had e-mailed to me a 30 second TV commercial from a political campaign a few years back, that's suddenly become timely. How can I post it???

This is for any of you who think Noam Chomsky is a bit of a tool. Have you ever seen his atrocious blogs? The best part is when he compares people who are upset with the actions of the insurgents to Nazi and Stalin sympathizers. Yep. Here's my take on Nim Chimsky and his two terrible blogs: Noam Chomsky, Bloggin' Fool

I had a rare moment- I had a thought - in this article (see link below fron Denver Post) it appeared it was more of the blah blah blah about how we are wrecking the Grand Canyon with the dam, and there are to many people and the the beaches are all getting washed away -

Be careful what you blog. It could get you fired. Peter Whitney said Wells Fargo dismissed him after co-workers discovered his online journal. Delta Airlines flight attendant Ellen Simonetti said she got the boot for hers. Even a staffer at Friendster, the social networking site in Mountain View that encourages users to post detailed personal information about themselves online, said she was fired for her blog. With blogging going mainstream and millions of Americans logging details of their everyday lives, including work, a growing number of people are getting into hot water for being too candid about their jobs. Some...

When I telephoned a man named Ali Fadhil in Baghdad last week, I wondered who might answer. A C.I.A. operative? An American posing as an Iraqi? Someone paid by the Defense Department to support the war? Or simply an Iraqi with some mixed feelings about the American presence in Iraq? Until he picked up the phone, he was just a ghost on the Internet. The mystery began last month when I went online to see what Iraqis think about the war and the Jan. 30 national election. I stumbled into an ideological snake pit. Out of a list of 28...

A pro-US weblog by three Iraqi brothers has become the unlikely setting for a huge web spat after conspiracy theorists alleged it was a fake. Iraq the Model, a weblog detailing the more positive aspects of the US-led occupation of the country, is one of the most popular Iraq sites on the web. But some anti-war activists said it was a CIA-sponsored propaganda tool. The brothers strongly denied the claims, but the row has led to severe ructions in the online Iraq community. 'Positive message' The blog, written by Baghdad-based brothers Mohammed and Omar, who are dentists, and doctor Ali,...

TEHRAN, Jan. 15 - Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a vice president of Iran until his resignation last fall in protest against the new hard-line Parliament, is that rare reformist who has kept alive the movement's promise for open communications with the public. For more than a year, Mr. Abtahi, a midranking cleric who has been a close ally and confidant of President Mohammad Khatami, has kept a Web log to share his views and reach out to others who use the Internet. Mr. Abtahi spends much of his time in his office in the heart of an affluent neighborhood in northern...

Jason Apuzzo and Govindini Murty, who brought us Hollywood's first conservative film festival has just announced their new blog. Libertas Check it out, they have great plans for the future. DoctorZin

[Members of the Traditional Anglican Ping List know that I post material from many sources, which has been steadily growing over time. A couple of Anglican/Episcopal blog lists were recently posted online; after going through them all I have added a few to my list, and have posted the list of primary sources on my Traditional Anglican Directory and Resource page at http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/, the URL I keep in my tag line. The following is the list posted online. Happy reading -- and if you encounter sites I should know about, please FReepmail me. --sionnsar]

This blog is dedicated to all things related to being a continuing Anglican/Episcopalian. It will serve as a place to discuss issues such as liturgy, theology, philosophy, ethics, ecumenicism, and more as they relate to "continuing" Anglicanism. It will also serve as a place to discuss these issues as they relate to other christian traditions. Now, for those of you who do not already know, let me tell you something about continuing Anglicans. We are "continuing" because the idea is that we are "continuing" the orthodox Christian faith that was once delivered to the saints. We are Anglicans because... [This...

On Tuesday Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of the Daily Kos, the most trafficked blog on the web, attacked me personally and erroneously for having written a column in the Union Leader (Manchester, NH) in which I defended New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary. "The author is a Republican, and a consultant. He stands to lose lots of cash if NH loses its leading role," he wrote of me in his weblog.

Hugh Hewitt announced on his show today that he will be appearing on FoxNews O'Reilly Factor on Friday January 14th at 8pm eastern to discuss his new book 'Blog'. Order and read reviews of his book on Amazon

One gee-whiz product on display last night in the ballroom of the MGM Grand Casino signaled where the personal publishing trend known as blogging is headed. Think video. Think regular Joes and Marys acting like Dan Rather, broadcasting personal video newscasts from their kitchen counters and living room sofas. Mark Randall, founder of Serious Magic, shows the video-creation screen of his new video-blogging software program, which generates a personal video that looks much like a regular TV newcast ....

Sorry to interrupt.... long time... first time... yadda yadda. Just recently moved to North Korea on the Potomac, er... Maryland and was wondering if there are any blogs covering the local conservative efforts. One of my neighbors told me that flying the colors in our new 'hood was a sure way to get people mad. So I'm thinking of getting a large weatherproof flag and tacking it to the roof. Anyway.... Any links would be nice.

I did a Google search for the word "blog", limited within the past 3, 6, and 12 months. The number of hits for each time period are as follows: In the past... Hits 3 months 20,400,000 6 months 19,400,000 12 months 21,900,000 What's wrong with this picture? Well, the hit number for 6 months doesn't make any sense. How could more pages have been updated in the past 3 months than have been in the past 6 months? Is there something going on that I'm not getting?

NEW YORK - Readership of online journals known as blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released Sunday. Twenty-seven percent of online adults in the United States said in November they read blogs, compared with 17 percent in a February survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Blogs that cover the tsunami disaster and relief efforts are bound to boost readership further, said Lee Rainie, the project's director. "The tsunami is one of those cataclysmic news moments where lots of people's...

I've just created a blog. There isn't much up except a piece on the November elections and some thoughts on poker, but I'd love to get a few people over there to check it out. The link is http://thecliffsofinsanity.blogspot.com/