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The BBC have helped Pakistani rape victim Mukhtar Mai set up her own blog on their website in her campaign for women’s rights in Pakistan. Beware though, it is in Urdu. The BBC have provided some translated extracts in what will be a series, however, it would have been nice if they just did a translated version of the site. She’s an amazing and extremely courageous woman.

Here is my odio.us Custom Web 2.0 Business Plan

Disruptive social-networking-aware remixable blog desktop app that leverages the long tail.

To get your own, download the app, or click on the up/down arrows until you find one that you like!

At some stage, when I get round to making up some productivity templates, I’ll need a place to store then as I don’t want huge hosting bills. Anyway I wanted something free, that allows free public downloads (that’s a paid extra at box.net … stupid! immediately they lose all that free publicity), that doesn’t delete your files after 30 days if they haven’t been accessed (eg savefile.com) and has a nice community. Good design would be just an added bonus. Well I found all that at eSnips:
eSnips.com - Get 1GB free storage to upload and share files, photos and videos

I love the little birdy logo and the fact that the CEO is a woman. You set up folders which can be public or private, public folders have their own static (and short!) web address. You can link directly to a document or create cute little “widgets” buttons.

The fellow eSnippers all seem like a nice bunch, it’s not as daunting as the bigger players. Pigment is my favourite. He’s an English artist and here are some widgets linking to his paintings: