An interview with the famouse Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif, aka The Blogfather.

I created a new photo set on Flickr from my last trip to Doha to attend the 2nd Al Jazeera Forum. Check them out.

Wired has a story on how to make your own ring tones, and this way, you can stop paying for ring tones. I use almost the same steps to make ring tones for myself, and I’ve been doing it for like one year, but I never thought about writing a HOWTO. Something like that would have been so popular.

Here is a very short video clip from Al Jazeera TV (RealPlayer required) where I, Shaden Abdul Rahman, and Ahmed Ashour appear talking after the last panel of the forum. I will try to post more clips from the event later.

Halima Mazfar on what female journalists go through in Saudi Arabia: “They adopt a hostile tone towards the female journalist and act as if she represented some sort of sin that they had to get rid of as soon as possible.”

For Arabic readers, Al-Riyadh has a good collection of e-books by a number of their columnists. It is good to see Arabic newspapers trying to offer more content in the electronic form.

You can have a better look at the 2nd Al Jazeera Forum by checking out photos on Flickr posted by bloggers who attended the event. BTW, Ethan has a great coverage for the event, session by session.