My God, Paidmonk quoted in Financial Times on Somali Oil

[Jaidi]

I wouldn't necessarily call it freaking out, but rather more like amusement at the fact that a supposedly reputable publication quotes bloggers and paints them as some sort of legitimate source. Makes you wonder about the state of the media today, when a former snetter is now apparently a lobbyist whenever someone wants to sell a few papers

Breh I was reading the article with mild interest like and almost had a heart attack when I got to that paragraph.

This isn't any blog, have you read the articles on that site? They're basically quoting an SNetter with a personal blog as a legitimate source

[Guul13]

I doubt this Maxamed Nur is on Somalinet,I'll give you guys one more hint as to who he is; he's on this list. http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Mohamed/Nur
If you knew what his tribe was you'd all stop having this collective heart attack.

[TheAspiringMufti]

Paid Monk aka Monk of Siigo is now a source

[Jaidi]

I doubt this Maxamed Nur is on Somalinet,I'll give you guys one more hint as to who he is; he's on this list. http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Mohamed/Nur
If you knew what his tribe was you'd all stop having this collective heart attack.

@ thinking this thread is motivated by some sort of qabil agenda. I could care less. I didn't know Paidmonk no longer owned the site, but regardless its still not a serious blog with plenty of articles fabricated from scratch.

Still funny that the Financial Times would quote whoever owns it now as a "lobbyist". The posts on there are as credible as most SNet threads.

[Guul13]

Somalis only accept Western owned and operated blogs and sites as "official".

[FAH1223]

The Mohamed Nur he quoted lives in Minneapolis... not the UK.

Paidmonk lives in Minneapolis and the Firsi thing was an alias. It's the same person.

[Turbulence]

Is Paidmonk still around?

[Rabshoole]

[MrSinister]

blogs are the way of the future, what makes a somali blog any less legitimate than the huffington post?

[Titanium]

blogs are the way of the future, what makes a somali blog any less legitimate than the huffington post?

You can't be serious.

[MrSinister]

blogs are the way of the future, what makes a somali blog any less legitimate than the huffington post?

You can't be serious.

serious as a khat shortage in hargeisa.

[Colonel]

[Titanium]

tap out

Dude, half of the Somali blogs are run by clan-driven or hate filled fobs where whole articles are run-on sentences filled with grammatical errors.

Not to mention they are conspiracy theorists who make up the news as they go along.

As for Dissident, they are clearly in bias of a particular region. You don't run a news website/blog like that. Impartiality is key.