Comments on: Mapping land distribution in Bahrain

By: Home Oxygen

Home Oxygen — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:03:19 +0000

the pdf file is very very authentic, I am an expat living in Bahrain and yes

By: ????

???? — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:05:06 +0000

Thanks for bringing the attention of the world to this tiny collection of islands, your efforts have not gone in vain

By: Censors Suck

Censors Suck — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:39:30 +0000

By the way, the pdf file is very very authentic, I am an expat living in Bahrain and yes, the depiction is file is very very true.
http://elijahzarwan.net/blog/wp-content/BahrainandGoogleEarth.pdf
You can download this in bahrain though.

By: …My heart’s in Accra » The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech

…My heart’s in Accra » The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:55:03 +0000

[...] let citizens see the site, rather than letting Mahmood and others train people to use proxy sites. (More on this story is available on my [...]

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Luis Villa’s Blog / Notes from NYLS Amateur Hour — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:20:04 +0000

[...] “so what are we doing with all this expressive power?” A: lolcats. A: using google maps to try to topple governments. Same underlying technology/media; so we’ve decoupled form of expression from media, which [...]

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…My heart’s in Accra » Pop!Tech - Dialog with/in Islam — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:39:49 +0000

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By: BlinkGeo » Geospatial Imagery Increasingly Being Used for Social and Environmental Activism

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:27:31 +0000

[...] in Darfur. You can also learn more about Google Earth being used to save Indian Villages and questioning land allocation in Bahrain. On a slightly related note, Om Malik at earth2tech has a recent post on an Eco-Tour in Google [...]

By: The Social Web

The Social Web — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:27:44 +0000

[...] Zuckerman, Ethan. “My heart is in Accra “; Mapping land distribution in Bahrain.” Ethan Zuckerman. 31 Oct 2006. 20 Jun 2007 <http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1085ap/>. [...]

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Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:43:49 +0000

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By: Mahmood Al-Yousif

Mahmood Al-Yousif — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:48:40 +0000

Hi Ethan, thanks again for your support. I think without international pressure, as well as concerted effort by sympathisers here, no site would get unblocked once it gets noticed by someone in a position to dictate to the rest of the country his own myopic viewpoint. Thankfully, we have a few who could poke those eyes out and let light in!

The same happened for Google Earth, once it was blocked, we made a concerted effort to show all people in Bahrain not only how to unblock Google Earth, but also how to unblock ANY site on the internet, that is why I am doubly surprised why the Bahraini government chose to block 18 “fresh” sites (I know that another 8 are on the block by tomorrow, with a possible reduction of just one, but that’s another story.)

Since Google Earth was unblocked; however, it wasn’t blocked or molested again.

I can vouch for the accuracy of the pdf file, and can also tell you that no obfuscation of features nor was the resolution offered lowered to achieve the unblocking.

Thanks for bringing the attention of the world to this tiny collection of islands, your efforts have not gone in vain.

–mahmood