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Based wrote: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

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.

Paid Monk aka Monk of Siigo is now a source

Guul13 wrote: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.

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

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.

Is Paidmonk still around?

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

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

You can't be serious.

Titanium wrote:

MrSinister wrote: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.

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.