Tuesday, October 18, 2005  Unpublished article on blogging
Egypt Today magazine had planned to publish an article for me
about Egyptian blogging in its next issue, but considering that
Cairo Magazine just did a feature cover story about the topic,
my article naturally got killed. I haven't read Cairo Magazine's
pieces, but I have to assume its good since those guys are
bloggers themselves. So anyway, the goal of my piece was to
encourage more people to discover the world of blogging,
becoming bloggers themselves maybe. Now, since my article is not
getting published, and I have no intention to work on it more,
I'll just publish it here instead, for the pleasure of whoever.
So here it goes:  Blogs are mushrooming all over the world, and
Egypt is no exception. Web logs are websites that look like an
online diary, a personal or a professional one. Blogs, short for
web logs, capture the thoughts of their authors on any topic of
their interest, allowing them to provide their insights, and
availing those thoughts f