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Three days before he was arrested at an anti-regime protest in downtown Cairo, award-winning Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fatah told TIME he knew he might pay a price for speaking out, but said he had developed a taste for freedom of speech and would not give up so easily...
...Abdel Fatah is one of more than 300 opposition activists - at least six of them bloggers - who have been detained and beaten over the last few weeks during an ongoing government crackdown on peaceful protests. Like many of his fellow prisoners, Abdel Fatah is being held under Egypt's repressive, 25-year-old Emergency Laws, which allow initial detentions of 15 days that can be renewed indefinitely. The blogger and other activists stand accused of blocking traffic, assembling illegally in public, and insulting President Hosni Mubarak, 78, who was reelected in September on a platform of political and economic reform...
...wanted to be one of the first fashion brands to use it to target my audience." But while no one disputes the technical prowess of the new generation of ads, that doesn't mean they actually work. In the case of the infamous Feather, as much as Welsh blogger Huntley enjoyed and shared the site, he didn't realize it was an ad for Axe. Are some viral campaigns too cute by half, thus reducing their effectiveness? Perhaps. But as Paul Bates, ad-industry analyst at London brokerage Charles Stanley, notes, all clever advertising, TV commercials included, runs the risk...
...believe that the vast majority of them were acting in what they earnestly believed were the best interests of the student body. So it left a bad taste in my mouth when walking out of the deciding UC meeting on Tuesday night, I happened to overhear a victorious blogger telling an opponent to get over the fact that “we” won. I’m going to hope “we” meant the students or the pro-reform camp; I have to admit that in the context it sounded a lot like...
...Really the Kingmaker? He says no. But if Joe Lieberman loses his Senate primary and jeopardizes a Democratic seat, the leading liberal blogger knows that he will be blamed...