The Lebanese journalist Diana Mkalled, known for her documentaries on Future TV, wrote about blogs on Asharq al-Awsat website. However, she made some mistakes in her column. Kevin Sites works for NBC, not CNN as she mentioned. Also, I think Ms. Mkalled does not know much about Arab blogs. It is true that we still do not have the kind of reporters/bloggers such as Kevin Sites and Dan Gilmor, but I think the Arab blogging scene is expanding rapidly, and we will reach this stage soon. She also said the word “blog” is not translated to Arabic yet, which is wrong because the word “مدونة” (Modawanna) is a perfect translation, coined and approved by Arab bloggers.

Blogs: Not permissible. Blogs are Haram! (via Moahmmed)

Seven years of kottke.org. Happy birthday!

Gmail are providing a basic HTML view now. The Java view is much faster, but the basic HTML is better for me because it enables me to save long emails to my hard drive to read them later. BTW, I have 10 Gmail invitations to give away. If you are interested, leave your email address with a joke or something in the comments :)

“Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive.” (via Lifehacker)

SiliconValleyWatcher has a screenshot of Yahoo! 360, and they say Yahoo! is about to acquire Flickr. Actually, I wish they don’t. I like Flickr the way it is now, and I don’t like to see it as a part of something else.

CSM: “What is a journalist?”