Pixiq

Interesting blog you have here.. I invite you to check out the photographers demo against police brutality in Egypt here:
http://tinyurl.com/d8vyr8

Hossam,

Interesting photos. What’s the story behind them?

We’ve been suffering a lot lately with systematic police crackdowns on photographers and journalists covering protests.. The police go after our cameras, break the lenses, and/or confiscate memory cards
You can check out also this report…
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=19331
So I urge you to keep an eye on Egypt, coz we need international solidarity from our colleagues in the US and elsewhere..

Thanks for the link. I’ll post something tonight about this.

And keep me posted on further developments in Egypt.

Good luck.

Cheers Carlos.. I discovered your blog recently, and became fond of it.. I hope you’ll honor my blog with regular visits to stay updated with news about photography and dissent out of Egypt..
Solidarity..

I just added a new “international blog” category and you’re the first one added to it.

I am noticing that I have a significant international readership, and the issue of photographers and journalists getting harassed is not limited to the U.S.

I will adding to this blog category. If anybody has any suggestions for international blogs that focus on photojournalism or photographer’s rights, please let me know.

Please don’t use locally well known, but not globally well known acronyms online without giving at least a hint of what they are about.

People who are not from the Bay Area don’t know BART = Bay Area Rapid Transit.
Don’t make your readers leave your site to look up what it is you are talking about. At least throw a hint like “transit cops” in there.

Would you be able to follow it if I was talking about TTC cops or HSR cops?

Rod,

You’re absolutely right, which is why I did specify what BART stood for in the initial article I wrote on this.

Read the second paragraph and then read the last two paragraphs.

http://carlosmiller.com/2009/01/06/bart-police-shoot-unarmed-man-caught-...

But I will try to remember to include that information in all future posts.

I don’t mean to pick on you. I just was frustrated by an online newspaper article that did the same, I remembered your blog had talked about BART officers, and thought I’d read here some explanation, but when I checked back I couldn’t see it.

I sent a bit more angry letter to the Huffington Post as they ought to know better, and need to realize that they are addressing a global market when posting the stories online, so they need to adjust their writing style to accommodate that.

Rod,

Most news articles neglected to explain what BART was, which is the reason I did so in my original article.

But then I guess I fell into the same trap as the newspapers where they assume everybody knows what they’re talking about, so you served as a reminder that this was not the case.

So I didn’t take it as picking on me at all but as honest feedback from a reader.

Thanks.