Why (almost) ignore local bloggers?

[Magnus]

In Blogosphere in today's Gulf News Apple's recently announced iPhone seem to be the topic of the day. Keefieboy was chosen, which is all well and good since it was a funny post, but after that it was all non-Middle East bloggers. One post from a guy in Utah, then there's David Pogue with the New York Times, and John Naughton writes for The Guardian in the UK, as far as I know.

Now I'm not saying that Gulf News should necessarily only link to local/regional sites, but why pick so much non-local/regional material when there's plenty from right here that they could have picked up? Anyone know how we can ask Adam Flinter? Or is this not an issue for you?

[cross-posted to the UAE Community Blog]

[Abbas]

Its basically syndicated stuff that they pick up instead of doing the article themselves. This simply involves a cut'n'paste from their source and thats about it. Story is ready without the need of putting in any extra effort.

-a

[Magnus]

I understand that, and they do too much syndication in my mind, but that wasn't really the issue here, I think. Plenty of local/regional bloggers have written about the iPhone so there's no shortage of material from her. Yet they go for US/UK material and one local. That seemed strange for me.

[MacUAE]

Talk about copy-paste... the attached image is a clip from Arabic "Emirates Today"... some specs are not 100% correct... like the iPhone is 61mm thick instead of 11.6mm!!! They mixed up the specs. Also an error in the AppleTV specs!!!

If you're gonna copy... do it properly!

[senthil03]

I am not sure if the Gulf News or the Emirates guys know that such a group exists here. Maybe one way of letting them know is to write to the editor and inform him about this group and they can get all the info they want about Mac and the local issues from EMUG.