every time I try to include your page’s link on my new favourite blogs link it reverts to the main Global Voices URL, I am not sure why!! I never had this problem with the old list!

As always I like reading your analysis, first class :o)

Thanks for your understanding.

To avoid further misunderstanding I would like to stress on the professionalism of GVO which is giving us a podium to make our voices heard.

During the said period there was the Citizens Media Summit as a result of which a little backlog was created. Since I could not know that you were going to stop blogging I did not realize that my post would be so time-sensitive.

This is all an unfortunate set of circumstances and no one is at fault.

Wishing you all the best,
Fozia

Cheers, Fozia, not in a hundred years would I think that you bear anyone any malice, your posts have always articulated you as a sincere supportive person, and a devoted professional journalist..

It was Global Voices’ problem, not yours, they really need to get their acts together and provide better service, they cannot be that slow in 2008 .

I thank you for clarifying what happened, and apologize for any misunderstanding

Thank you for the comment. I am not sure that my post in any way indicated that you have deleted your blog because of me. My post was made last month but I do not have control of when it gets released because of the queuing process in Global Voices which is why you saw it published on July 9th instead of June 29th.

My message came when I clicked on the links on July 10th and realised that you had deleted your blog which is why I released an update to pre-empt someone saying that I am writing about a non-existing blog.

There is no malice involved as I am one of your most ardent fans. Apologies if you assumed otherwise. Plus in Global Voices there is no place for this type of behaviour as this is not a personal blog. I am trying to bring attention to talented Libyan bloggers and showcase Libya and not the contrary so why shoot oneself in the foot ?

As for your note regarding the photos taken, a careful reading of the post would have made it clear to you that there was no offense meant and any criticism was of the constructive type, as in “let us look at data protection laws and let us think about that for Libya”.

Thank you for the links provided and allow me to join my voice to Benghazi Citizen and the others and ask you to reconsider your decision to stop blogging.

Yours sincerely;
Fozia

You make it sound like the tourists were photographed in their bedrooms by a hidden camera!. While in fact they were in a public place and appeared looking at the camera and smiling..

However, there are only two cases in which you can say a picture was taken without obtaining prior permission: (1) if you were there by the time it was taken, (2) if the people who appeared in it or the photographer who took it said so. Otherwise you should take a minute and inquire before you pass judgments, criticism is more that welcome, assumptions no.

As for your update: I actually deleted my account on July the 4th, that’s five days before your post was published!, and here are a post by Benghazi Citizen and several related comments were published on july the 4th, (i.e. before your post was published, on July the 9th), and all are talking about me quitting blogging.

All what I am asking you to do: is to inform your readers that your post was published five days after I had deleted my blog, and you released the news about me deleting my blog six days after I had truly deleted it.

Sorry for being straight to the points, but your delayed dates lead the readers to think that your “criticism” caused me to delete my blog, which is not true.

Have a nice day.

Unfortunately Khalid Jorni’s blog is no longer available for viewing up as he recently deleted his account.

We hope to see him back again and I am glad we managed to capture some of his spirit in this roundup.

Maybe he can count this as a message to plead with him to reconsider his decision.

Fozia