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Upon reading my daily Bloglines, I stumbled on an interesting article from Joi Ito. The title is Khalid Jarrar: Iraqi blogger detained. A journalist detained, we heard it a couple of times. A blogger detained? Well, that is unusual. Was it something that he wrote? And even so, are bloggers considered as journalists? Then, I guess blogs and bloggers are getting more and more important. I recalled once Benny Chandra wrote “Jangan anggap enteng blogger!” or literally “Never underestimate blogger”. When I need to read something, let’s say news about London bombing, I got more update by reading blogs than the newspaper (obviously) or television. One more lesson I got from this happening is that blogger everywhere tend to stand for each other. When something bad happen to one blogger, the other will react, support him/her. I don’t know if that is true or it’s only in my dream. And if blogs and bloggers are about to take part in some new-media-movement-sort-of-thing out there, then I guess I am stand right in the middle of it. From Khalid Jarrar’s case I found out that there are in fact a Committee to Protect Bloggers. Even the family had their own blog. As stated in the blog’s description:

A Family in Baghdad; mother: Faiza, sons: Raed, Khalid, and Majid writing down their diaries. Father: Azzam is not interested.

Amazing. I wish my mother and my sister write a blog.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that according to the mother’s blog, Khalid Jarrar has been released.