When Luban Hussain could not find anything to write about, an expatriate told her she should write about the hospitality and caring of our society.

Take a look at my Arabic blog, and then look at this new Saudi blog. You can see that the two designs are almost identical. The thing is, I did not dedicate my design to the public domain, and I’m not using a creative commons license for my Arabic blog. It seems like the man has copied my design, and then sent me an email to add his blog to the Saudi Blogs blogroll. He did not even ask for my permission to use the design. I mean, I could have said yes. Weird. You think I should do something about this?

Naseeb.com: Social networking for Muslims.

WSJ: Microsoft and Yahoo are expected to announce that consumers using their free communications services — including instant messaging and computer-to-computer voice calling — will be able to communicate directly with each other for the first time.

For Tariq al-Homayed, neither television nor the internet is the real threat to printed journalism in the Arab World. The real danger, he says, “is the matter of intellectual property.”

Badria al-Bisher takes on the war of image (Arabic). The tendency to blur images of human faces on ads and billboards in the country is just ridiculous. If you tried to find out who is responsible for this, no one will be able to tell you. The ministry of commerce, the municipality, and the religious police are the three parties involved in this case, but no one exactly knows who is directly in charge for the mission of blurring.

Arab News: A girls’ school Saudi teacher lost her mind when in a fit of rage she banged the heads of two girls together for being noisy.