(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Oh golly, oh gosh! I nearly missed it. Happy Birthday, Fake Plastic Souks! Ten years ago this month, I was ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There's an awful lot of talk about fake news online, a background rumbling that occasionally erupts ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Sometimes an organisation's priorities are all too evident in the way it comports itself. Let's ...

As we are exposed to the raw feeds of information in our interconnected world, we are increasingly forced to a much greater degree of ed...

Warning. Very long post about book marketing. So here's the skinny. In Mid-March, I dropped the price of Beirut - An Explosive T...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I'm constantly battling the urge to beat people to death with their own selfie sticks. I know it...

The Pink Caravan initiative has been going for the past five years in the UAE, a drive to raise awareness of breast cancer early detect...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's been one of those weeks. First we had the tremor from the Qeshm earthquake and then Google...

(Photo credit: _DaniloRamos ) Or if you prefer to be Amerikee about it, everything is awesome. I've been very offline for the...

(Photo credit: @cpe ) This is the week Dubai goes Expo 2020 bonkers and if you thought the noise level was already high, you ai...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's one of the most witless emails I've received in a long time, from a company calling itself ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Chatting with pal +Ashish Panjabi  on Twitter... hang on a second. I just typed Ashish's twitter han...

(Photo credit: ST33VO ) It's been going the rounds the past couple of days, with nearly half a million visits knocked up in...

It starts tomorrow - ArabNet's Dubai Digital Summit - three days of conference, workshop, developer competition, roundtable and other...

(Photo credit: vpickering ) Once again, a nation's people has taken to the streets protesting its government. This time around it...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gulf News today carries a roundup of recent cases of bloggers and tweeters in trouble around the ...

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