Is Blogging All That New?

Interesting piece on blogging in the New York Review of Books, entitled “Blogging, Now and Then“:
Whether exchanged orally in a café, scribbled on a scrap of paper, or combined as paragraphs in a newssheet, anecdotes operated as the primary unit in a system of communication. Many of them found their way [...]

Reda Troupe

In a previous post, I discussed belly dancing and various perceptions of it. The negative perceptions of belly dancing and other forms of folkloric performance in Egypt have been improved considerably by the great work of the Reda Troupe (فرقة رضا).
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Language and words in the news – 20 March, 2010

This post contains a weekly selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English and language change. Please contact us if [...]



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Off line (progress report II)

The OmegaWiki server is now connected to the Internet. The data is being moved so happily a positive progress report :)
Thanks,
    GerardM

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