Dilshad Ali offers her own, personal take on the Salafist coup at IslamOnline.
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IslamOnline’s management have declared war on the staff, apparently. an attempt by conservatives to exert control?
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johnpi
Ipad ho-hum: What is it with Muslim bloggers and their early adopting fetishes? Some really good bloggers have reduced most of their contributions to the ‘Islamsphere’ to 140 character Twitter haikus. Now formerly high-functioning Muslims are carrying on about the Ipad.
Here’s a description of the Twitter phenomenon from a recent conference I attended:
Twitter has reduced many bloggers to micro-bloggers, resulting in an annoyed backlash by many netizens against daily blog or LJ posts that are merely collections of disjointed thoughts in 140 chracters or less. How has Twitter changed the blogosphere? Is it a good thing?
No. It’s not.
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btw, the Brass Crescent Award polls close today. Just sayin’ …
(btw you do need to provide a valid email to confirm your vote. We wont spam you. We promise.)
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Voting for the 6th Annual Brass Crescent Awards is now open! VOTE AT http://brasscrescent.org until November 27th!
reminder – you can follow the Brass Crescent Awards on Twitter (@brasscrescent) or on Facebook!
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Voting for the 7th Annual Brass Crescent Awards is now open! VOTE AT http://brasscrescent.org until November 27th!
(Regretfully, Talk Islam is ineligible – despite the fact its a group labor of love, being nominated would still have had the appearance of impropriety).
UPDATE – you can follow the Brass Crescent Awards on Twitter (@brasscrescent) or on Facebook!
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Someone should start an endowment to pay money to good Muslim bloggers like Umar Lee and Hijabman to ‘incentivize’ the perpetuation of good Muslim blogging.
For critics of anonymous blogging, this would also ‘incentivize’ people coming out from behind their acronyms. Can’t write a check to an anonymous person…
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I just created a brasscrescent Twitter List. Suggestions for others to add?
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Most days, as a blogger, I feel like I am accomplishing something. I look back on my 6+ years and counting of writing and feel some accomplishment at having perhaps persuaded a few people, changed a few minds, and most importantly educated people about our faith.
Then i read a thread at a blog I am a frequent contributor to, and find that pretty much everything I’ve been saying for all these years has been utterly ignored, even by people who have been reading. It’s depressing. Days like this are the ones that make me wonder whether blogging is worth anything at all.
Of course, the antidote is here, at TI. But still, it doesn’t reduce the feeling of simple failure. Perhaps – as I myself argued some years back – we really do need to turn inwards.
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nominations for the Brass Crescent Awards are still open!
Are you a blogger? Please help us promote the Awards!
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Has anyone managed to reconstruct the grand debate on traditionalism in the Islamsphere from circa 2006? About half blogs involved have broken/inaccessible archives.I seem to recall someone here at TI mentioning it recently but couldn’t find it.
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(since the thread has been hijacked from my initial purpose, I am removing the post content and will try again later.)
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Nomination phase is now open for the 6th Annual Brass Crescent Awards!
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White Girl, Arab World – blog by a western lady in Bahrain. time to start collecting links like these for the upcoming Brass Crescent Awards after Ramadan…
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Tim Johnson is leaving McClatchy’s China Rises blog. For China-related matters, it was essential reading, on par with Wang Daiyu’s Islam in China blog. I am very sad to see him go.
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Tikkun looks at the Islamsphere and mentions some familiar names. Bonus scary pic of Shahed
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Does anyone have an email address for either Conrad Barwa or Ikraam Saeed? Two very difficult people to get ahold of.
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Broken Mystic has a great post about Aasiyah Hassan and domestic violence. Of of the better ones I’ve seen out there.
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Wanted: suggestions for a linkroll (not a blogroll) for Talk Islam. Ideally, websites on the linkroll would promote Islam in the sense of religious tolerance and freedom, provide views into its diversity, and provide reference material to those looking for more information. explicit Dawah sites are not desirable, nor are blogs per se (we can add those to Planet Islam instead). Please leave your suggestions in thread!
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I just have to say, that Thabet’s use of the tag “The Only Democracy in the Middle East” has been enormously useful to me for my blog post research. That is some awesome use of tagging, right there.
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What blogs in the Islamsphere do you know of that are now defunct, but you wish they were still around?
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The Top Ten muslim blogs. Look familiar?
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Today is the last day to nominate blogs for the Brass Crescent Awards, so if you haven’t yet nominated any, head over and get your picks in right now!
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I am pleased to report that the 5th Annual Brass Crescent Awards for the Islamsphere are now officially underway! Just head to BrassCrescent.org to nominate your favorite blogs. Let’s make this year’s BCA the best ever
UPDATE: More details at City of Brass, including the schedule for the nominations, judging, and voting phases.
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Read/Write Web is doing a series on religion and web technology, with Islam the focus of its most recent installment. In particular, they focus on Inside Islam, a site run by the University of Wisconsin. The lead blogger, interviewed by R/WW, describes the site as follows:
“The project as a whole is a product of University of Wisconsin-Madison, of which me, the blogger, and the pubic radio shows are only part of… in the end, we hope to have a wealth of resources that people around the world can access about Islam and Muslim culture worldwide. This includes digital stories, blogs, YouTube videos, music, and all other types of popular content on the web.”
This is the first I’ve heard of it, actually but it’s worth taking a look…
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Hey look – it’s Eteraz Online! (not that eteraz, but another one, worth reading in his own right.)
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I have a humble announcement to make regarding my venerable blog, City of Brass.
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We may not like it, but this too is the Islamsphere.
What, if anything, should we do about it?
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Check out The Court of Lions, a collaborative muslim poetry blog.
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Over at IslamCrunch, a celebratory post about Project26 was hijacked in comments by a cybermullah.
It’s a matter of time before they show up here. How should muslim communities online deal with this?
