Por las tierras de los Banu Qasi

En Fle D’artifice tenéis una selección de enlaces a les plus belles images de France.
Una que me ha gustado es la de la famosa librería Shakespeare & Co de Arnaud Frich, pero hay muchas más.
Y para seguir con Fle D’Artifice, tenéis un enlace a un post sobre lo que representa Loïc Le Mur en la blogería francesa y su polémica figura.

¿Qué razones tenemos para escribir a diario, semanalmente, mensualmente un blog? Según opinión de Duncan Riley, artículo completo here :

People get into blogging for two reasons, and two reasons only. The first one is on a whim, they’ve heard others are doing it, and they think they might give it a go, and maybe some friends and family will read it, and are content with some basic writing. The second reason is fame and fortune, although I’d qualify this is noting that fame doesn’t have to be huge and neither does the fortune: these are the bloggers who blog with a purpose, on a topic, and to reach more than their immediate friends, they’re also commonly referred to as number chasers. I’ll admit, I’m a number chaser, when I started writing The Blog Herald I did so because I saw a niche and it was a topic that interested me greatly. I wanted to write and have as many people as possible see it. If you’re in my boat you’ve got great expectations, that’s a good thing, because you should always aim high; but there are a few things you should consider if you want to make a reasonable go of blogging.

En la primera razón: por capricho, estoy de acuerdo. La segunda: fama y fortuna, ya lo dudo. Mis intereses poco coinciden con los intereses de los demás. Y en un principio, puse propaganda y todo lo demás, pero cada vez me arrepiento más. Al final terminaré teniendo un blog sencillo y sin que se note, pero esto no quiere decir que no exista. Lejos del mundanal ruido bloggeril, que cada vez me deja más perplejo. Para demostraros lo que digo aquí tenéis mi blog más querido, porque no tiene ninguna pretensión, ni guarda escondida ninguna pose.
Por lo tanto, existo, pero tampoco es para tanto.

Reporteros sin fronteras en colaboración con Los premios al mejor Blog de la Deutsche Welle han concedido los premios a los blogs que han defendido mejor la libertad de expresión a lo largo del mundo:
Vía Screeshots and Reporters sans frontières (Edición en Español aquí)

Reporters Without Borders selected around 60 blogs that, each in their own way, defend freedom of expression. The organisation then asked Internet-users to vote for the prize-winners – one in each geographical category. More information about the Blog awards.
ASIA
Screenshot
www.jeffooi.com
Country : Malaysia
Language : English
An extremely popular blog that takes an independent approach to Malaysian politics and society. Its editor, Jeff Ooi, was threatened with imprisonment, at the beginning of October 2004, because he allowed on his blog a comment “insulting Islam”.
AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Joint winners
Shared Pains
kabul2.blogsky.com
Country : Afghanistan
Language : Farsi
A blog commenting on Afghanistan’s political and social life with a forthrightness rarely found in this country
Al Jinane
www.emarrakech.info/prana
Country : Morocco
Language : French
A blog run by a Moroccan trying to “understand the complexity of the world”.
EUROPE
ICT lex
www.ictlex.net
Country : Italy
Language : Italian
A blog on Internet law and new technologies
AMERICAS
Press Think
journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink
Country : United States
Language : English
A blog run by an American journalist dealing with the media and free expression in the age of the Internet
IRAN
Mojtaba Saminejad
8mdr8.blogspot.com
Country : Iran
Language : Farsi
A weblog that earned its editor, Mojtaba Saminejad, a two year prison sentence in June 2005 (See : www.rsf.org/article.php3 ?id_article=12563).
In a demonstration of solidarity the 10 webloggers named here, who were also nominated for a prize, all voted for Mojtaba.They were : Nikahang, Shabah, Mithras, Khorshidkhanoom, Z8un, Memarian, Ghaja, Webnaameh, Shabnamefekr, Shargi.
INTERNATIONAL
Netzpolitik
www.netzpolitik.org
Country : Germany
Language : German
A blog dealing with open source technologies, Internet-users’ rights and free expression in cyberspace.