Over the past two or three weeks, I have been helping one of my buddies trying to get his blog up and running.

It was quite an ambitious project that he wanted to do. He is an artist who creates his own music, covers famous songs, etc.  read more »

There are a few questions that have been spinning around in my head for a while now.

Does blogging in English improve the quality of my blog? Does it improve the quality of my English?

I'm an Afrikaans speaking South African. Afrikaans is my home language and I speak it every day.  read more »

That has got to be a strange feeling indeed. Fired for blogging. For voicing an opinion.

Ex-sub editor at the Sowetan, Llewellyn Kriel has blogged about his experience as the first South African to get axed for blogging.

Reading through his article made me think about a few things. Does a judge in today's courts even know what a blog is? Do they have enough tech-savvy to be able to handle a case like this?

Food for thought.

I direct you to this blog entry of an Italian gentleman called Beppe, who informs us about a new law that they want passed in Italy.

Let me give you the short version of it:

1. They want people in Italy who want to run a blog to register on some government database.

2. People would have to pay a blogging tax.

3. You would need a registered journalist that would be your appointed "responsible director".

Now I don't know about you, but this sounds like restricting freedom of speech to me.  read more »