A few days ago, Egyptian blogger Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam was detained
by Egyptian police for participating in a pro-democracy rally. Bloggers
from globalvoicesonline.org have organized an online campaign for his
release:
http://freealaa.blogspot.com
As part of the campaign, I've posted a three-minute video about Alaa and
some ways bloggers and vloggers can get involved in the campaign.
http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/05/vlogging_for_alaa.html
I'd like to encourage all of you who care about citizen journalism and
free _expression_ to participate if you can. The campaign blog has banners
you can add your vlog. Meanwhile, you can participate more actively by
post a video in support of Alaa and include a link to the campaign blog.
Participants are also encouraged to participate in a "Google bomb"
that's trying to game the google search algorithm to rank the Free Alaa
blog highly when people search for the word "Egypt". To do this, simply
include this link on your site:
<a href="" href="http://freealaa.blogspot.com">http://freealaa.blogspot.com">Egypt</a>
That way, there's a greater chance of Google ranking the site in
searches for the word Egypt.
Thanks,
andy
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Andy Carvin
acarvin (at) edc . org
andycarvin (at) yahoo . com
http://www.andycarvin.com
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://www.pbs.org/learningnow
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