Battle of the Brands: Apple has toppled Google, and al-Jazeera in the top-five.

Gawker Media have added to new blogs to their network. Lifehacker: alternative software blog, and Gridskipper: alternative travel blog. Good stuff.

BlogBinders is a service to turn your blog into a book. Nice. (via Biz Stone, Genius)

Do we have an identity crisis? The Bahraini Homer Simpson linked to an interesting article on this subject. I think Arabs in general are emotional people, and they are being over-sensitive on this issue. The problem is most of us can’t accept people the way they are. Whenever we see some differences, we tend to accuse others with anything. And this is totally wrong.

By request of Ethan Zuckerman, I have translated his interview with al-Hayat newspaper I posted about before. Zuckerman published the translation on his blog. You can read it now.