Category: Blogs

“White privilege” blog carnival is up

Brooke has finally posted her blog carnival on “White privilege and the Ummah”, with my contribution as well as posts from Safiyya of Shalom 2 Salaam, Safiya of Outlines, Ginny, Fairuza/Sabiwabi, Bin Gregory, Nzingha,...

Brass Crescent appreciation

I'd just like to say a huge thank you and jazakum Allah khair to all those who voted for me in the recent Brass Crescent awards. This blog won in the Best European blog...

Blogs and their relevance (or lack thereof)

Last weekend Janet Street-Porter wrote for the Independent rubbishing the entire medium of blogs, while Yasmin Alibhai-Brown last monday wrote for the same paper suggesting that bloggers must have no life (you can read...

More on female commentators and abuse

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The anarchy and the ecstasy Further from the earlier link about female "pundits" and the abuse they get, Georgina Henry reports on the culture at Comment is Free (the Guardian's...

Another retort to Anthony Browne’s pamphlet

The Sharpener: Quaking under the jackboot of political correctness. Or not Recently a hawkish hack writer in the Times and Spectator, among other places, published a pamphlet through Civitas, entitled The Retreat of Reason...

The defrocking of “The Religious Policeman”

Not much to add to this particular story myself, but brother Abu Sinan has been working on exposing the deception behind the so-called Religious Policeman, who purports to be a Saudi exile in London...

Weblog awards 2005: who cares?

OK, so who's heard of the Weblog Awards, 2005? The first I heard of them, the finalists had been announced, and people were being asked to vote for which of the top 20 were...

Which blogware to use?

As a lot of you noticed, I recently switched my blog tool back to Movable Type. With a vengeance – I actually bought an unlimited personal licence while it was reduced for a few...

Top 10 blog design mistakes

Via Guardian Newsblog, a guy called Jakob Nielsen has laid out a list of the Top Ten Design Mistakes commonly found on blogs. I guess mine falls foul of quite a few of them:...

Dutch tolerance

In today's Times, it's reported that Rita Verdonk (what a name!), the "hardline" integration minister of the Netherlands, has told the country's Parliament that "she was going to investigate where and when the burka...