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BlogWatch.(Alaa Abdel Fateh imprisonment)(Brief article)
Byline: Zvika Krieger
The imprisonment of Alaa Abdel Fateh, the Egyptian blogger, set in motion a flurry of online activity. Activists drew upon a grab bag of technologies--flash animation, online petitions, video blogs and a special "wiki" collaborative Web site--to organize themselves and attract attention. Their defense of the editor of Bit Bucket (manalaa.net ) showed just how effective blogs can be in circumventing government controls over the press in the Middle East--Al Fateh was released after 45 days. As the Internet expands throughout the region, bloggers are becoming more visible. Posts from misrdigital.blogspirit.com ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, BlogWatch.(Alaa Abdel Fateh imprisonment)(Brief article)