Author Kalsoom started the CHUP-Changing Up Pakistan blog three months ago with the goal of raising awareness and providing insight into the political and social issues affecting Pakistan's people. With daily news briefs and analysis, interviews with prominent figures and contributions by young Pakistanis the blog aims to foster this generation's voice and provides a platform for them to have their opinions heard and published. Kalsoom says she began the blog soon after former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007; in an attempt to try to overcome apathy among Pakistan's youth toward the issues facing the country.

As a trained analyst with Bachelors and Masters degrees in International Affairs Kalsoom calls the blog her "attempt to apply my capabilities as well as my passion for my country to this website to make it as objective, succint, and fair as possible."

Click here to visit CHUP, which was recently quoted by Reuters and has already garnered a loyal following both inside Pakistan, and the world over.

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"The UCI Irvine study examined in-depth the blog-reading habits of 15 participants of various ages to determine how they consume content and interact with blogs and blog writers. The research found that some readers frequently post comments, while in others lurk, or visit without commenting."

Among the conclusions drawn by the study, headed up by Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences doctoral candidate Eric Baumer is that blog readers have "diverse opinions of what makes a blog a blog." Citing everything from RSS feeds to personal content as the underpinnings of a true blog; rather than the more staunch 'definition' of a blog as a "frequently modified Web page[s] with dated entries listed in reverse chronological order."
 

Chez Pazienza was fired Tuesday from his postiion as senior producer of CNN's "American Morning" for "violat[ing] its standards for journalists through his blog Deus Ex Malcontent."

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They say "CNN has a policy that says employees must first get permission to write for a non-CNN outlet."

Source link: New York Times.

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