The Pakistani Spectator

Started in March 2007, The Pakistani Spectator ("TPS") has today become one of the leading political blogs in Pakistan. The multi-writer blog receives over 30,000 daily unique visitors and has over 80,000 daily page impressions. TPS is also listed as No.1 in the politics category on BlogTopList and its Alexa Ranking is about 37,000. The blog has over 100 writer from all over the world, including Pakistan, United States, United Kingdom, India, Iran and UAE, who cover Pakistani politics, current affairs, blogger interviews, entertainment, Urdu articles, technology and social articles. Click here to listen to our interview with TPS! We've covered a myriad of issues from why the blog was started, to the current political and social media scene in Pakistan. For further information and a quick look at this exciting blog, visit http://www.pakspectator.com.

Adnan Ali, CEO, Internet Marketing and Social Media Consultant, Click Chain Pvt. Ltd.

Adnan Ali is the CEO and founder of Click Chain, an Internet Marketing and Social Media Strategy company with experience in turning ideas into value generating products and services. He specializes in Search Optimization, Search Marketing and Social Media Strategy, and is currently helping organizations leverage the web and social media to increase return on investment. Currently residing in Lahore, Pakistan, Adnan Ali also heads and teaches in the department of Information Systems at University of Management & Technology. He has an MBA (Marketing) from Pakistan and MBA (MIS) from USA.His experience in development of web applications and developing ideas into finished products has combined with his marketing skills to bring forth the first internet marketing course to be taught at the Masters level in Pakistan. Click here to listen to our interview with Adnan Ali. We discuss his business, his views on the Long March and much, much more! To read more about Adnan Ali, visit www.adnanali.org. Do visit Click Chain as well at http://clickchain.com/!

Farhan Masood, CEO, Solo Smart Inc, created the Go Green Campaign in Pakistan

Farhan Masood started the Go Green Campaign in Pakistan. The campaign gets Pakistanis and friends of Pakistan to show their patriotism and/or positive feelings for the country by changing the background of their display picture on social media networks, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.,green. In this campaign, people send their display pictures to the Go Green team, who inserts a green background with Pakistan's flag in their display pictures and send it back to them. Farhan Masood is also the CEO of Solo Smart Inc.,a clever technology firm dedicated to the research and development of fusing Biometric Algorithms, Optics, Machine Vision, Micro Electronics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Access Control, Relays & Dry Contacts, Electrical Innovations, Mechanical Assemblies, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Software Development, Intelligent Databases together to produce extremely CLEVER solutions for Security and Accountability Industries. Click here to read the interview we conducted with Farhan via email. Also, to learn more about Farhan, do visit him on Twitter!

Huma Yusuf, Features Editor of Dawn.com, Journalist & Specialist in Digital Media in Pakistan

Huma Yusuf is the Features Editor of Dawn.com, the website of Pakistan’s leading English-language daily Dawn. She also contributes articles on a freelance papers to papers in the US and India, including The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, and Indian Express. A graduate of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program (MSc), Huma is interested in the social impact of media trends. She has written extensively about new media and democracy in Pakistan and is currently researching the role of community radio stations in Pakistan’s northern and tribal areas. She is also currently launching a first-of-its-kind webzine, the goal of which is to provide an alternate forum where journalists and academics can publish articles on Pakistani society and culture that lie at the intersection of reportage and scholarly research. Previously, Huma graduated from Harvard in 2002 with a degree in English and American Literatures and Languages, and returned to Pakistan to work as a journalist with the monthly Herald magazine. She specializes in human rights reporting and has addressed subjects such as low-income housing, ‘honour’ killings, gang wars and the state’s ineffective prosecution of rape cases. Her writing garnered the UNESCO/Pakistan Press Foundation ‘Gender in Journalism 2005′ Award and the European Commission’s 2006 Natali Lorenzo Prize for Human Rights Journalism. Huma is also interested in investigating trends in media consumption, online environments, and the interface between media, local politics and global trends - an intersection that she explores through her research and journalism. Click here to listen to our interview with Huma Yusuf! We discuss her views on the growth of Digital Media in Pakistan, the role of Politics in this and the power & future of the internet in Pakistan. To read more about Huma Yusuf, please visit http://www.humayusuf.com.pk/ Or check out her blog for Center for Future Civic Media by clicking http://civic.mit.edu/blog/humayusuf You could also follow her on Twitter, or check out her tweets by clicking http://twitter.com/humayusuf