Today, my article about the upcoming GTD (Getting Things Done) web app, Nirvana, was featured on home page of Technorati.com. Here are 2 screen shots:
Here is the link to the original article: http://technorati.com/blogging/article/nirvana-achieves-a-higher-gtd-getting/
Read the rest of my Technorati articles here: http://technorati.com/people/mikaelpittam/
And my Examiner.com (San Jose Muslim column) articles: http://bit.ly/sjmslm
Following the announcement from earlier this week, we have been informed that IslamCrunch has been hand-picked to be selected on a new blog aggregator site, Trakkrz. Here is the email we received:
Your blog – IslamCrunch – has been honored with a selection to the
world’s largest hand-picked blog site on the web, trakkrz.com, for the
topic of Muslim.
WHY BEING SELECTED TO TRAKKRZ.COM IS SPECIAL
To be selected by trakkrz.com:
* you have a consistent, regular stream of articles
* you write primarily about the topic for which we’ve chosen you
* you write original, relevant articles that provide a unique view -
you are not a news aggregator, not an automated blog scraping website
- rather a live blogger with excellent content* you are an individual or a small group writing together
We would invite you to visit us at muslim.trakkrz.com. You’ll see your site
as one of the top blogs we’ve selected.
Please register and vote for our content. You can find the IslamCrunch page here: http://muslim.trakkrz.com/sources-posts/?feed_id=4528
To vote for content, click on the footprint. May Allah give us the ability to leave beneficial online footprints while gently walking on Mother Earth.
With much thanks to our readers (yes, you!) we have been included in the top 100 Muslim blogs compiled by the Daily Reviewer. We were informed by the President of the Selection Committee via a Disqus comment. You can see our blog listing here: http://thedailyreviewer.com/blog/13640 as well as the other Muslim blogs here: http://thedailyreviewer.com/top/muslim/2
Your continued support and readership is much appreciated. Want to help IslamCrunch? Tweet, Facebook, Email our posts to your networks! Thank you!
To celebrate the 2nd anniversary of IslamCrunch, the design team at MQube developed a new look for our site. Welcome to IslamCrunch 3.0. Alhamdulillah.
We have added some jQuery to the site to streamline content and minimize scrolling for the user experience. Micro-blogging on Twitter has been an interesting adventure for us and wanted our readers who are not familiar with Twitter to have a better exposure to our micro posts. The Twitter widget is a customized design that employs their json code (this json format has a special appeal for me, any guesses why?) Besides Twitter, we have highlighted other social networks that we are active on.
We also streamlined the design from a 3 column layout to a 2 column layout. Please add your comments below, your feedback is important to us.
Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Their aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
Their aim (and our aim) is to raise awareness of poverty. We would like to focus on poverty on a macroscale and on a microscale. Here are some examples of how YOU can contribute to reduce poverty.
Poverty on a macroscale
We previously posted about the Global Food Crisis. Read that post and help to feed the poor. Also, the Washington Post has a good platform discussing the food crisis.
Consider joining the Muslim team on Kiva: http://www.kiva.org/community/viewTeam/?team_id=890.
Kiva Muslims (Updated as of Oct 15, 2008 11:02 am)
Number of Team Members : 34
Number of Loans : 67
Number of Loans per Member : 1.97
Total Amount Loaned : $2,375.00
“Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.
The people you see on Kiva’s site are real individuals in need of funding – not marketing material.”
For more info about the poverty on a worldwide scale, please visit: http://site.blogactionday.org/resources/
Poverty on a microscale
This is where YOU can really make a difference. Seek local organizations that provide relief to the impoverished in your region. Have some extra wealth? Donate with a good intention. Other ways to help besides finances? Volunteer! Work for the sake of our Creator, make the right intention and reap the rewards.
For Muslims, we know (or can easily find) the teachings of the benefits of charity. An eternal reward? Indeed.
For us in the San Francisco Bay Area, we are blessed with the Rahima Foundation, who handle the following:
