Comments on: On Linky Love

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:12:04 +0000

Tsedek: lol no not that blog. I’m actually not familiar with that blog

By: Saeed

Saeed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:42:41 +0000

I think you might need to keep the current style. However, it is fine to write in Arabic from time to time if you feel what you will write need wider base of the readers.

By: Simon Columbus

Simon Columbus — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:18:21 +0000

I just read a text on German blog where two commenting guys didn’t understand the text because they didn’t use the link which provides the article on which he refers.

Now one could say: “He should write it in a way you don’t need to click links” – but that’s not as good as the chance to read a text yourself. So you know it’s real…

Link dumping is not bad – but I wouldn’t read a blog consisting of links and nothing else (but I use Global Voices and other services).

Links are good. I totally agree with Jeff – “you go judge for yourself” is a very good explanation why they should be used.

And because of that I now go and give you a link in on my blogroll ;-)

By: tsedek

tsedek — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:58:22 +0000

You mean the angry arab, stephen?

By: Saudi espresso

Saudi espresso — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:54:13 +0000

very true …
but lets face it .. we were not raised to give our opinion … we are raised to say what others like to hear … i know it’s sad but it’s nothing but hypocrisy.
We hate to look at it this way to the degree that no-one admits it … thats why many arab bloggers and internet writers in Forums prefer using Nicknames and almost never show their identities. Do we have identity issues ? can’t answer the question .. but always a possibility..

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:27:43 +0000

Linking is always a good thing once it’s used properly.

What I can’t stand is blogs that only have links and the author of the blogs don’t add their opinions to it. It’s ok to do it once in a while but there is blogs that do it on all their posts. One of the most popular bloggerss in the middle east does it. I don’t understand how his blog is so popular all he does is link.

And no I won’t mention the blog :-) Don’t worry I’m not talking about your blog Ahmed

By: Entropy

Entropy — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:15:42 +0000

هذه الزاوية – إن صحت التسمية – في مدونتك تعجبني…ودائما ما أزور ما أراه مثيرا للاهتمام منها .
وأعترف أنني في بعض الأحيان – خاصة عندما تكون مواضيعك عن الكرة و المنتخب ;-) -أزور المدونة فقط لأرى هذه الروابط
:-)

لكن هذا لا يغني عن كتابتك باللغة العربية
لا زلت أطالب بانضمامك إلى نخبة المدونين السعوديين المدونين باللغة العربية فكتاباتك تستحق القراءة
والقراء باللغة العربية يستحقون أن تخاطبهم بلغتنا الأم

:-)