Dear FPB Readers, My name’s Adil Elassali and I just like to take a quick moment to announce my return from my long absence. I am happy and excited to resume blogging again along with my colleagues for the Middle East region. This World is changing, Resistance is futile! Syndicated from: Foreign Policy BlogsForeign Policy [...]

Lately offline work has been hard on me. Sometimes I am taking 2o minutes to write a short email, in hope it’ll save receiver’s time and they would reply right away. But they do not. Writing a post is difficult. Not writing is even worse, especially when it is very important to you and to your loved [...]

Well times like these when you are totally socially captivated, yet your heart and mind is juggling between your social and home life, creating the element of guilt and conscious efforts to reach home and stay safe from the daily dose of maa yelling at you for being the spoiled brat. Lol. True story right? Today [...]

By Sonya Rehman With internet usage on the rise, Pakistanis are turning to the blogosphere and citizen journalism to share their opinions. Hosh Media epitomizes the growing popularity of locally-based, online portals for citizen journalism in Pakistan. According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the number of broadband internet subscribers rose from 26,611 in 2005 to [...]

Let’s be honest, a big block of text simply isn’t as interesting as a cool video. As someone in her mid-twenties, I know that my generation is YouTube crazy and video game insane, but this fascination with video is only going to get more intense as the years continue. As a former High School English [...]

As some of you may know, this tech blog and my personal blog are both powered by WordPress software. What follows is a complete list of WordPress plugins that work behind the scenes to add new functionality to these sites that’s otherwise not available in the vanilla version of WordPress.org. These are all free and [...]

Jef Poskanzer has been an AdSense publisher since June 2003 but last month, an automated email from the AdSense team landed in his inbox: After reviewing our records, we’ve determined that your AdSense account poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due [...]

So, I’ve been away for long but planning for February to be another Daily-Blogging month. Thank you, Umme for inspiring me to write on the blog again. 1. One of my goals for 2012 was to read 52 books. A book a week. I am falling short of my target already as in the first [...]

“Of course, because I’m the one speaking, you’realready prepared to believe the exact opposite of what I say. But you’re smartenough to sense that the opposite of what I say is true, and though you mightdoubt me, you’re astute enough to take an interest in my own words. You’re wellaware that my name, which appears [...]

If you access any of the Blogger hosted blogs from India, Google will automatically redirect you to the corresponding blogspot.in address. To give you an example, if a blog’s address is abc.blogspot.com and you try opening that page from an IP address in India, Google will send you to abc.blogspot.in. A similar redirection is happening [...]

Google is now redirecting all blogspot.com blogs in India to a different blogspot.in address. The change is live in India but Google, according to this support page, is planning to take a similar approach in other countries as well. So a blog like abc.blogspot.com could redirect to abc.blogspot.com.pk for a visitor in Pakistan or to [...]

Got a video channel on YouTube? You might see a drop in the subscriber count of your YouTube channel in the coming days. Google is doing a clean-up and they’ll remove all closed and inactive YouTube accounts from the total subscriber counts (slide). That is, if ‘zombie’ accounts have been following you on YouTube, they [...]

Yesterday ProPakistani a well known Pakistani IT blog together with Microsoft Pakistan organized a gathering for the bloggers from numerous platforms. The meet up at the same time highlighted a look towards the most up-to-date social networking developments as well as digital resources. These type of events comes very less in Pakistan, but its a [...]

First post from the iPhone app. A good way to share on-the-go. Who knows … maybe this’ll get me back to blogging. Syndicated from: Waking Life