Palestinian bloggers joined hands to blog for their country, in a blogging initiative led by Abir Kopty under the theme: For you, oh praying city, we blog. In the following post, Kopty writes in Arabic about Social Media utilization in the Palestinian cause, and coordinating it with offline events on the ground.

Lena Viddo Just before Christmas, Felipe Avalos opened a new ambitious Basque restaurant Mercado on Kent on Williamsburg's South 2nd Street. The chef is Peru Amandoz, who has trained under such greats as Juan Mari Arzak and Ferran Adria, and he serves a Basque style tapas menu with both small and large plates. The bi-level space seats 80 and also features retail a bakery and a market with breads made in house by Balthazar alum Johnny Peralta. Looks pretty fabulous, but does it live up to expectations? Bloggers, readers, and Yelpers have been in over the past few weeks to weigh in. Their reactions are ahead.

The Great News: This is the only Eater comment on the place that won't go immediately into an Adventures in Shilling post (though perhaps it should): "Fabulous food on a mysterious corner! We walked by on our way to dine at one of our regular haunts when we came upon this eclectic Bauhaus-ish building with the fires roaring as mentioned above. The vibe was right, and the food was killer. We'll de

What Goes Around Comes Around and Piper Gore to Zanerobe and Taylor & Stitch, we now know to expect of the top emerging brands at this years Style X. Today, the official fashion showcase of SXSW announced a slew of panelists sure to make this years event even bigger. The Man Repeller, Grungy Gentleman, Marcus Troy and JFK Jean, some of the top emerging bloggers on style will be coming to Austin to speak on panels discussing menswear, street fashion and technology. Style X is truly a platform for finding and sharing insights from emerging brands and industry thought leaders, both new and established, on whats next in style, said Joah Spearman, co-founder and executive producer of the second-year event. These panels, like the rest of Style X, are free and open to the public, offering a deep glimpse into the oft-exclusive world of fashion right here in Austin during SXSW Music. Last year, Style X included three panels which covered the intersection of music, fashion and technology and the resound

Controversy has ensued after a Supreme Court judge cited posts written by legal scholars Erika Fontnez and Esther Vicente esin a dissident opinion of a ruling that left a victim of domestic violence without legal protection. Written by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter...

With all of the social media successes throughout the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, it would be all too easy to overlook the struggles faced by bloggers and netizens throughout the region. But with 126 netizens imprisoned, it would be a travesty.

I’m excited to announce weve added two great new premium themes to our ever-growing collection of themes today. First up is Duet " a responsive, minimal, and sophisticated design from The Theme Foundry. Duet is tailored for writers, journalists, and business bloggers. Meticulously crafted and refined options provide you with the power to effortlessly customize [...]

If you had to describe this year in one word what would it be? Leila Nachwati, who was in Tunisia two months ago to attend the Third Arab Bloggers Meeting, shares her experience in Free Tunisia and polls netizens' opinions on what word best describes the year that was since Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest against tyranny a year ago.

Eight days after her arrest, Razan Ghazzawi has been charged, according to an article from the Lebanese Daily Star. Bloggers continue their campaign to free her.

It may have been his first trip to Las Vegas, but we're sure as hell that he made it count. This past weekend Prince Harry was spotted cutting a rug in one of Las Vegas' most popular nightlife venues, Tryst Nightclub. Even though he may be considered royalty, it doesn't mean he can't step out of character for the night, much like every other Sin City visitor, and enjoy a little bottle service. The 27-year-old royal, who has been training in Arizona with the British Army Air Corps, was surrounded at the Wynn Las Vegas venue by male and female friends, security, and plenty of cocktails in the VIP section - or did you think he was mingling at the bar waiting to get the bartender's attention?

After throwing down some drinks and mingling with some ladies on the dance floor and his VIP area, he left the club with his entourage around 3 AM. It was reported in late October that the prince was expected to stay at the Wynn. For the last month it's been said that his handlers have been contacting local nightc

As 2011 comes to end, we thought it’d be interesting to look back at the events that made headlines this year, and a few of the bloggers who were there in person (or closely connected to the events) to document history in the making. Here’s a recap of some of the biggest news stories of [...]

Online retailer Mens-Ties.com is experimenting with a new and unique way to market their website through social media and Search Engine Optimization. Every blogger that writes a review about...(PRWeb December 01, 2011)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/12/prweb9001074.htm

Over the years one of the most frequent requests on WordPress.com has been to allow bloggers to earn money from their blog through ads. We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn’t terribly tasteful, and it seemed like Google’s AdSense was the state-of-the-art, which was sad. You pour a lot [...]

For fans of Foster-Wallace, the archive of his work at the University of Texas is an absolute treat. Katie Roiphe looks at his teaching syllabus when he was faculty member at Pomona College in the years before his death, for Slate: Lately David Foster Wallace seems to be in the air: Is his style still influencing bloggers? Is Jeffrey Eugenides bandana-wearing depressed character in The Marriage Plot based on him? My own reasons for thinking about him are less high-flown. Like lots of other professors, I am just now sitting down to write the syllabus for a class next semester, and the extraordinary syllabuses of David Foster Wallace are in my head. I am not generally into the reverential hush that seems to surround any mention of David Foster Wallaces name by most writers of my generation or remotely proximate to it; I am not enchanted by some fundamental childlike innocence people seem to find…

Photo: Molly DeCoudreaux On Saturday, Tyler Florence was at the Foodbuzz Festival blogger convention talking about frozen French fries. To be specific, he partnered up with all-natural frozen food brand Alexia Foods to drum up some excitement for their next food blogger-generated frozen French fry flavor. 400 bloggers gathered to sample the four flavor finalists, but mostly to watch el Ty-Flo cook up some pan roasted, brined pork chops with that unmistakable Ty-Flo swagger. Saving you the time it takes to watch the live stream video over on Facebook, here are his most swoon-worthy comments of the evening, no doubt making the mostly female audience of food bloggers weak in the knees.

1) Ty-Flo opened things up by talking about his kids and what big fans they are of Alexia's frozen sweet potato fries. 2) On the pork he was cooking: "This pork is from Somona. It had a great life. Just one bad day." And later, "This is a Flinstone pork chop, I don't know if i should wrestle it or eat it." 3) Ty-F

Bloggers, primarily from the Cuban diaspora, are having a field day with news of a new law that will allow Cubans to buy and sell real estate legitimately. Many feel that there are still too many restrictions.

Last week, I hosted the second installment of my ARTIST #TALK series together with this month's special guest British singer/songwriter V V Brown. Produced in very close partnership with HP, we brought together a select group of bloggers, reporters and...

I am counting down to the next installment of ARTIST #TALK with HP that will be held tonight in New York City with special guest V V Brown. In front of a live audience of reporters, bloggers and fans, I...

*Wikipedia Commons Music Education Blog Carnival Background: ThenewMusic Education Blog Carnivalwas created and is maintained by Dr. Joseph Pisano ofMusTech.net. Its function isto promote the great work being done by Music Education Bloggers across the Internet. This ...

One basic characteristic of journalism is this: its content is not bought and paid for and directed by an advertiser. It might be vapid. It might be poorly written. It might be damn near worthless. But it's not an advertisement. More »

CMJ starts this time next week. Whilst it isn't is all-consuming an indie event as SXSW, there's still a feeling of movement towards New York; tours winding that way, bloggers...

Animal and several other Iranian bloggers express fa their deep concern about two environment watchers who are condemned to death penalty. These two environment watchers killed without premeditation the poachers. Written by Fred Petrossian · comments (0) Share: facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper

Click here to view the full photogallery. We're wrapping up Day 1 of the New York City Wine & Food Festival Eater Lounge and will be back tomorrow at noon for more wheel spinning, cupcake eating, blind taste tests, and all kinds of other antics. Thanks to Murray's Cheese for stopping by with some sick samples from their new caves, Earl of Sandwich for some hot eats, Godiva, Sprinkles, those sexy Red Bull girls, The Dream Hotel, and all those bloggers, chefs, babies, and PR gals that stopped by to play.

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