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Dawn News Blogger Thinks Mansoor Ijaz Cares
Yet another blogger for yet another major news publishing house has written yet another blog in the ‘open letter’ format, a format that implies that the writer has the balls to take all the heat (come what may) as a direct result of his/her publicly declared opinion. Well gosh darn, I have to know who [...]
PakMediaBlog Turns One and Wins Its First Blog Award Title
We are extremely excited to inform all of our beloved readers and contributors that PakMediaBlog turned one last week (20th May 2010) and got an award in the ‘Best Ezine’ category in Pakistan’s first ever Blog Awards held at the Regent Plaza in Karachi on 28th May 2010. How’s that as a perfect birthday gift? [...]
The Dirty War of Advertising!
This was a guest post written by Beenish Qureshi, who is a Visiting Faculty at Iqra University & Principal Strategist at Reverb 27. Since the times are changing we are moving on to modernization. Our advertising industry is also incorporating aspects some of which are culturally misfit. However, let’s not be too critical as they are catering [...]
Wake Up Marketers! Spamming is not Blogging!
So is there really a difference between blogging and spamming? Those of you who are familiar with the ‘internet’ jargons might understand each term separately and might also be able to differ between the two. Yes, I deliberately used the word ‘might’ because a lot of people still can’t figure out if they are really [...]
“Ramzan and Below the Line Activities… Buy Big and Still Act Low”
With Ramzan we witness a number of blessings, some are genuine while some are forced such as the case with goodwill paid under the table to police men, in simple words, bribe. However, it’s visible nature makes the premium quality of bribe quite obvious which further gets classified into various subtypes. These people simply get to [...]
Lays with Junaid Jamshed – A Public Service Message?
Now the next step after all the hoopla is a public service message by Lays in which Junaid Jamshed is spreading the word that a few ignorant people have passed the wrong information regarding Lays, which is actually a Halal product and therefore the consumers should not fear consuming the brand. I was [...]
25th May 2009 – Letters to the Editor
Greetings Everyone! The following are the letters received today. We have tried our best to answer them. Keep writing to us and we will be more than obliged to publish your questions and our replies … Email – 1 By Critic: Why must the planners subscribe to the same thinking and speak the [...]
Follow Up – Lays 100% HALAL
I am writing as a follow up article to Zaira’s post of “Lays – 100% HALAL.” The whole issue of Lays being HARAM falls onto the claim that Lays uses an ingredient known as E-631, which is a flavor enhancer. E-Code ingredients are known to be extracted from pig fats and nowadays there are several [...]
Launch: PakMediaBlog.Net
Welcome to the PakMediaBlog. This is a launch post and this will explain you about what PakMediaBlog is all about. As we all know that when it comes to accessing information about Pakistan on the internet we have very limited options and resources. Keeping this situation in mind, PakMediaBlog has been launched in order to [...]
Ufone Spampaign: Spamming The Pakistani Blogosphere!
I don’t know what is wrong with the Telecom Sector in Pakistan? In order to try and get hold of social media, they have been trying everything possible left, right and centre! Although, some of them have been trying their best to understand the mechanics of social media, the rest continue to be shameless to [...]
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