Ariane launch delayed
A technical problem has delayed for at least 24-hours the launch of an Ariane rocket from the European Space Agency’s launch centre in French Guiana.
“Erroneous data” linked to the fuelling system is said to have been the culprit causing the countdown to be interrupted.
The modified Ariane-5 rocket is carrying supplies to the International Space Station.
Exodus to leave Libya
On Libya’s western border with Tunisia, thousands passed the checkpoints in a matter of hours, weighed down with as many of their belongings as they could carry.
One witness said Libyan police deliberately picked on Tunisians and Egyptians after successful revolutions there set a precedent for the anti-Gaddafi uprising.
One Tunisian man who made it onto home soil said: “The situation is bad. People died. They killed them. They took their money.”
It is estimated up to 80,000 ex-pat Tunisians live and work in Libya.
Authorities and aid organisations have set up special reception facilities to treat the wounded at the border.
There are many other nationalities taking flight too, among them many Libyans.
On the border with Egypt, which has 1.5 million citizens in Libya, Egyptian refugees told of the bloodshed and horror they had left behind.
One said: “The hospitals are saturated with the wounded and the dead. There’s a lack of medicine, and makeshift hospitals have been set up in the streets.”
Another man returning home said: “I saw mercenaries firing on people using large calibre machine-guns, like those fitted in fighter jets. They targeted the people.”
Another witness said the use of mercenaries had made it more dangerous for everyone. “The Libyan population stood together with us,” he said “but they took vengeance on all Africans armed or not, because Africans in military uniforms had been seen by the people killing Libyans.”
There is a tangible fear among those fleeing that they may died if they stay in Libya.
The scramble to get out is becoming an exodus.
Shi’ite opposition leader returns to Bahrain
A hardline Shi’ite dissident has returned home to Bahrain from exile to join the burgeoning opposition to the island kingdom’s Sunni royal family.
London-based Hassan Mushaimaa is the leader of the Haq movement. He was tried in his absence over an alleged coup plot but received a pardon as part of the ruling family’s concessions.
“The talk about change and reforms should not be just patchy,” he said on his arrival at Manama.
“We have to have real change or the people have to carry on (protesting). The demands are up to the people on the ground who died there and faced everything.”
Pearl Square remains the focus of opposition protests. But today thousands marched on the former prime minister’s residence to call for the removal of a man who has been in his post for 40 years.
This week, the government freed more than 300 people detained since a crackdown on Shi’ite unrest in August. The cabinet has also been reshuffled in another sop to the opposiition. But neither move appears likely to end widespread protests.
Action on Libya: “a complicated mix of good intentions”
Why are France and Britain leading the military operation to impose and maintain a no-fly zone in Libya?
Euronews asked Claude Moniquet, a strategic intelligence and security expert and founder of an Institute in Brussels which specialises in geo-strategic research.
Euronews: “Since the start of the coalition intervention in Libya, people have been asking how Libya has become a Franco/British concern? Why were these two countries so quick off the mark?”
Claude Moniquet: “Yes, it’s a complicated mix of good intentions: coming to the rescue of the Libyan people who are being bombarded and attacked by the Gaddafi regime. It is also – or so the rumours have it – because there are various embarrassing skeletons in the closet. Remember that France put out all the flags when Gaddafi visited the country two or three years ago – although let’s be clear they weren’t the only ones to do it. Then at the beginning of the year there was the episode with Tunisia, the embarassing affair of the trips taken by the French Foreign Affairs Minister of the time, Michelle Alliot Marie. So perhaps France is eager to bury all that business. And on the British side of course there was all the sorry business of the negotiated release of Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi. He was the Libyan agent who was sentenced to prison for life for blowing up a plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie and who was released on compassionate grounds because he had terminal prostate cancer and then of course there are British oil interests.”
Euronews: “Gaddafi’s son Saif said last week on Euronews that he could prove the Libyan regime had financed Nicolas Sarkozy’s election campaign. They were potentially damaging allegations. Could that have hastened French intervention?”
Claude Moniquet: “No, I don’t believe that because I don’t believe that Gaddafi really financed Sarkozy’s campaign. After all, we’re talking about someone who has been a professional liar for the last 20 or 30 years. I think his son Saif Al Islam takes after his father in this respect so I think that this was pure propoganda as part of a media war aimed at discrediting France.”
Euronews: “So you think this is pure propaganda, a complete fantasy?”
Claude Moniquet: “Well, if this proof ever comes to light, then we shall see.”
Euronews: “Do you think there are other motives in play for France and Britain?”
Claude Moniquet: “The main point is to take a strong political position on the Arab world which has been in a state of flux for the last three months. There, I think there is a political interest, a noble one, which explains why they had to invervene. The second thing which explains why this was mainly a Franco-British initiative was the understandable American reluctance to be the first wave of intervention. The American involvement in Iraq isn’t finished and has left a very bad impression in the Arab world and a military operation which was too American-led would have, by its very nature, been problematic.”
Euronews: “Do you think that there is perhaps a Franco-British desire to make history, to win some credibilty points on the international stage, especially in the US?”
Claude Moniquet: “There is obviously a window of opportunity for Europe, and that’s quite rare. A chance for Europe to play a role on the international stage, and if there’s anywhere where Europe can be significant, it’s obviously in North Africa and Africa. North Africa and Libya, it’s just the other side of the street from us, like Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia…for us these are neighbouring countries, countries with which we have a common history, long-standing relationships, and I think that’s the right policy to show: that we are interested in these situations and that we are on the side of their people.”
Libyan city of Ajdabiya a ‘free city’
The main focus of the protests sweeping Libya remains in the east of the country, far from the capital Tripoli.
The city of Ajdabiya has seen some of the heaviest violence with reports suggesting government security forces have lost control.
Located some 160 kilometres south of Libya’s second city Benghazi, euronews spoke to
Abdel Bari Zouay, an eyewitness, who said Ajdabiya was now a free city.
‘‘On Thursday, February 17, there was a demonstration in Ajdabiya. The protesters burned the local headquarters of the revolutionary committee. The Revolutionary Guard have fired upon us killing four demonstrators. Since Friday the city has been completely controlled by the protesters, who have burned 14 buildings belonging to the government. They have also burned portraits of Gaddafi and have formed groups who are now running the city,” he said.
“We call on the United Nations and all those who have a conscience to help the city Ajdabiya. The regime has sent African forces into the city but we are here waiting in the square of the martyrs. Everyone here is ready to defend the city against the mercenaries. We’ve discovered that these African mercenaries are going to land at Zouitina airport. I can assure you that everybody here is ready to fight against these traitors and African mercenaries,” he added.’
Iranian opposition leaders Mousavi and Karroubi reportedly arrested
Iran’s main opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have been arrested, according to the Kaleme website, which is close to Mousavi. The two are said to have been transferred to the Heshmatiyeh Prison in Tehran. The website says their wives have also been taken.
Kaleme cited “reliable sources” for its report. No information has been given on when the arrests took place.
The leaders have been under house arrest for weeks. They were candidates in the June 2009 presidential elections in which the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won, drawing criticism that the vote was rigged. Ahmadinejad and his supporters denied fraud.
Mousavi was Iran’s premier for eight years in the 1980s, while Karroubi has been a speaker of parliament.
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Dozens more killed as Libyan violence hits Tripoli
More than 60 people are reported to have been killed in Libya’s capital Tripoli?�over the last few hours as Muammar Gaddafi’s regime clamps down on a growing anti-government revolution.?�If confirmed it would take the number of dead since the uprising began to well over 300.?�Demonstrators in Benghazi said an army unit swapped sides to join them, helping the protesters take control of much of the city. And the Libyan justice minister has resigned in protest at the “excessive use of violence” against demonstrators.?�Gaddafi’s?�son?�went on TV on Sunday night to warn that?�the government would fight the revolt to the ‘last man standing.’?�Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi said Libya is not like Egypt nor Tunisia. “Libya consists of tribes and clans,” he said.?�“It’s not?�a society?�with political parties and so on. It’s tribes and clans. Everyone knows their duties. This could cause civil war and we will repeat the civil war of 1936.”?�Despite a very visible show of support for Gaddafi, his hold on power appeared to be faltering in what is proving to be among the?�bloodiest of the current uprisings in north Africa and the Middle East.?�There are?�claims that a police station has been torched in Tripoli. And a Libyan newspaper is reporting that protests have broken out in Ras Lanuf, the site of an oil refinery and petrochemical complex.
A coalition of Libyan Islamic leaders has issued a fatwa, telling Muslims it is their ‘duty’ to rebel against the Libyan leadership and calling for the liberation of all jailed protesters.
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Italy’s EU immigration rescue call
What if Arab revolutions launched a thousand ships? Italy has not felt this vulnerable to illegal immigration since communism collapsed in Albania 20 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of Albanians back then caused a national crisis in Italy, welcomed at first but not for long. The material and political challenges were immense.
Events today in north Africa threaten to eclipse the Albanian crisis.
At a meeting in Rome, Italy’s Interior Minister Roberto Moroni and those of the five other European Union countries touching the Mediterranean have met to plan emergency strategy.
Moroni said: “We ask that a special European solidarity fund be created to ensure that the countries feeling primary impact from the humanitarian crises in progress will have the resources needed, provided by all the countries of Europe.”
Libya’s 2,000 kilometres of coastline are a launch pad for many illegal immigrants heading for the closest EU country – Italy.
Rome lavished attention on Colonel Gaddafi in recent years and in 2008 conceived a friendship treaty under which the Libyans agreed to patrol the sea to curtail clandestine migration, in exchange for money.
That arrangement has been outstripped by the current events.
Since Sunday, the ships and aircraft of the European border control agency Frontex have been deployed in the sensitive area.
Frontex has released an estimate saying that as many as one and a half million migrants are ready to risk anything to set foot on European soil.
EU in knots over Libya
The European Union’s foreign ministers have been grasping for a common strategy over Libya. They are grappling with a threat by its leader, Muammar Gaddafi, to end efforts to hold back illegal immigration to Europe from north African shores, if Europe supports the opposition surge in Libya.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague told journalists:
“You asked me earlier about whether Colonel Gaddafi is in Venezuela. I have no information that says he is, but I have seen some information that suggests he is on his way there.”
Venezuela has denied this.
With the Europeans struggling to form a united front, foreign policy high representative Catherine Ashton left the ministers’ meeting in Brussels to fly to Egypt.
Ashton said: “We are extremely concerned by the events which are unfolding in Libya. We condemn the on-going repression against demonstrators, and deplore the violence and the death of civilians.”
Ashton is scheduled to meet Egyptian officials, opposition leaders, youth groups and women’s groups. British Prime Minister David Cameron, at the start of a Middle East tour, got to Cairo before her, the first leader to visit Egypt since Hosni Mubarak was forced out as president.
Japan looks to limit economic fallout
Japan’s economy has suffered a series of aftershocks since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country.
The Nikkei, however, clawed back some recent losses on Tuesday buoyed by signs that the nuclear crisis at Fukishima was easing.
Much uncertainty remains, but some believe the disaster could make Japan more productive in the long-term while also having a positive effect in the wider Asia region.
Senior economist at JP Morgan Securities Japan, Masamichi Adachi said: “In the short term, probably some negative impact could be inevitable, but in the medium to longer term as you mentioned some companies probably feel it is better to locate their factories outside of Japan, so that’s probably positive for the emerging Asian countries.”
He went on to say, “I think and I hope Japanese companies will strengthen their productivity and that will probably boost the economic expansion here.’‘
165 billion euros is one figure being touted for the cost of reconstruction. Such a massive rebuild is also likely to spur growth.
In the short term, however, radiation concerns from the Fukishima power plant remain the major worry. No more so than for Tokyo’s vegetable wholesalers who returned to work on Tuesday after a long weekend. They are facing supply halts to spinach and other green leaf vegetables from four prefectures in and around the Fukishima complex after the government ordered a ban on shipments.
A man cries for his brother killed in Benghazi
Salem Al-Moqlah was killed in the recent clashes in Benghazi in Libya, a city that is now no longer under the control of Gaddafi’s forces. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
A man cries for his brother killed in Benghazi
Salem Al-Moqlah was killed in the recent clashes in Benghazi in Libya, a city that is now no longer under the control of Gaddafi’s forces. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
Marine Le Pen next French President?
Marine Le Pen wants to give France’s far right Front National a new face, to change how it is seen in the eyes of the broad public. The 42-year-old new Front National president is the youngest daughter of party-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen. Some forecast that it will attract 18 percent of the vote in their country’s presidential election in 2012. In Strasbourg, Marine Le Pen tells Cecilia Cacciotto about her goal to become president of France.
Cecilia Cacciotto, euronews:After your father’s 40 years as leader, you have succeeded him at the head of the Front National, announcing changes. How will you put distance between yourself and your father’s policies?
Marine Le Pen:I’m not going to distance myself, because I am proud of my father’s accomplishments. He created in France a party which defends the nation, the sole movement to do so among all the globalist parties dominating the political class, and he has managed to make it endure. But I believe we are entering a new chapter in the story of the Front National, a chapter I call the eye-openers and builders. With many others, my father raised awareness of a whole series of problems which are hitting France with full force. We want to be builders, which is to say open this chapter of the Front National which will carry us to power. That is what we want to do, our battle plan, to be able to apply our ideas, to access power and apply our ideas.
euronews:How? You are quite clearly, if I understand it well, referring to the 2012 elections, in which you are forecast with 18 percent of the votes. How will you raise that percentage?
Marine Le Pen:Firstly, we have a job to do implanting the Front National locally, and then we have to multiply openings in what the Front National says. You know, for a long time the Front National was closed off by the press and the political class to all but security and immigration problems, whereas we have a much broader programme than that. My role was to raise visibility for the Front National’s economic and social programme, which, it’s true, was little known, but also its ecological programme, and the image we have of the state, of the role of the state in France.
euronews:Is France ready to have a woman president?
Marine Le Pen:Ah yes! I believe there is absolutely no problem with that, and if S?�gol??ne Royal was not elected, in reality it was more due to her personality than her being a woman.
euronews:Europe doesn’t interest you much, I’ll quote you…
Marine Le Pen:No, I never said that. I never said that. On the contrary, it is of interest because I fight it with all my strength — in any case, the European Union, not Europe — Europe is a civilisation, it’s a territory, I am European. But the European Union is a structure I consider as totalitarian, it’s the European Soviet Union, yes, yes… the more it moves forward the more it builds itself without the people and even against people. The more it imposes directives on us… we don’t see well what it brings us, it must be said, apart from ruining our economy, restricting our budget plans, restricting our monetary plans and imposing on us a model of living which is not our own.
euronews:If you are elected president, will you take France out of Europe?
Marine Le Pen:I believe the European Union is dead. The light it is giving off is that of a dead star. It believes it is alive but it is already dead, because its money, which it made, and around which it created itself, is itself dead. Today, we are trying to save the euro at all costs. But what IS the cost? I don’t want my people to be obliged, like the Irish, to lower the minimum income by 12 percent, to lower family allowances, to lower unemployment benefits, to impoverish public service workers. If that is the price we must pay to save the euro, well I say it’s better to get out of Europe and better to leave the euro.
euronews:So what future do you see for Europe?
Marine Le Pen:I believe it must all be rebuilt. I think that Europe can live if it is constituted around the concept of a Europe of nations, which respects national sovereignty, is a Europe of cooperation, the only concept, objectively, which yields good results.
euronews:Last October in Vienna, several parties of the extreme right gathered, among them Italy’s Lega Nord and Austria’s FPO, and they decided to launch a campaign promoting a referendum on Turkey joining the European Union. You weren’t there. Were you not invited or is your position on Turkey joining different?
Marine Le Pen:No, not at all. You know, we in the Front National were in full internal competition. We were waiting to see who was going to be elected president, in order to be able to make the necessary contact. I believe we have to have contacts between a certain number of European parties, and I am quite ready to participate in organising this referendum in France, on Turkey’s entry. I am against Turkish entry.
euronews:Did events in Tunisia and Egypt surprise you?
Marine Le Pen:No, not so much, not so much, because I believe, in reality, that true democratic revolutions are revolutions of hunger. I think that the international monetary system and bad decisions taken by international organisations, such as the IMF and the WTO, led to a massive price rise for essential products, notably food. Two things worry me: the first is the beneficiaries of these revolutions, these democratic aspirations, which I support, but which benefit the ambitions of Muslim fundamentalist political parties to take power in these countries. That is worrying. To deny that is, in my opinion, absurd. The second worry is massive migration.
euronews:In spite of being elected to head the Front National, and what is expected of you, you remain the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Has your father never embarrassed you?
Marine Le Pen:You know, in the history of a movement you take everything, because it’s too easy just to take the good things and reject what can be maddening or things that don’t work as well as other things. I take the whole history of my movement. I do not allow myself, because I find it is not honourable, to sort out what was good and what wasn’t so good. I also try to learn lessons from the past, errors even. I draw experience from the beautiful and great things that the Front National has managed to do. One party alone against all the rest, after all with very little funding compared to the others, which fought under difficult conditions… But I believe I can tell you today that we were never wrong.
Water dumping restarts on Fukushima Reactor 3
Army helicopters have once more been dumping sea water on the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in north-eastern Japan. They are concentrating on Reactor Number 3, trying desperately to bring down the temperature.
Japanese television broadcast some pictures shot from 35 kilometres away. The helicopters are taking off from a military base in Sendai.
For days, people here and at the site itself have been working tirelessly to avert an environmental catastrophe.
The plant’s operators said they were close to finishing a new power line to the plant. This would allow them to re-start the generators, meaning the temperature and pressure in the reactors could be brought under control.
Egypt ‘allows’ Iranian warships to use Suez Canal
Egypt has given two Iranian warships permission to pass through the Suez Canal for the first time since the Islamic Revolution, Egyptian state television reported on Friday.
The report said Egypt’s army had been assured that the vessels, currently in the Red Sea, will not be carrying military equipment, nor nuclear or chemical contents.
The ships are understood to be heading for Syria.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has described Iran’s plans as “provocative.”
Meanwhile, in another potential blow to Israel, Egyptian authorities have also decided to open the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip for humanitarian reasons.
Egypt has been cooperating with an Israeli blockade to prevent smuggling through tunnels.
Indian Muslims sentenced to death for train attack
Eleven Indian Muslims have been sentenced to death for an arson attack on a train in 2002 that killed 59 Hindus.
The fire sparked days of violence between Muslims and Hindus in which more than 1,000 people, mainly Muslims, lost their lives.
Of the 31 men convicted of the attack last week, those who did not receive the death penalty were given life prison sentences on Tuesday. They were found guilty of setting fire to a train in the town of Godhra in Gujarat province. Inside the Sabarmati Express were Hindu pilgrims on their way back from Ayodhya, a holy site which is itself fought over by the Hindu and Muslim communities.
There has already been much controversy over what exactly started the fire.
A former Supreme Court judge issued a report in 2005 that concluded the fire was an accident and had started inside one of the train’s carriages. But three years later, another investigation commissioned by the state government reported that the attack was a conspiracy.
The devastating riots that followed the fire also led to much political finger-pointing. Gujarat’s state government, which is led by a Hindu nationalist party, was accused of turning a blind eye to, and even being complicit in Hindu attacks on Muslim neighbourhoods. While a state commissioned report exonerated local police and officials, a Supreme Court panel concluded last year that the state Chief Minister showed a “discriminatory attitude.”
Fianna Fail look set to be routed in historic Irish vote
Irish voters appear set to deliver a humiliating verdict on the ruling Fianna Fail party in the country’s general election tomorrow.
Opinion polls suggest the centre-right Fine Gael party is still building on its lead and could even be on course to win 80 of the 166 seats in the Dail, raising the prospect of a minority government with the support of independents.
The latest survey shows Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny to be one of the few beneficiaries of Ireland’s spectacular banking collapse over the past three years.
An equally strong, if not stronger possibility according to the polls is a coalition with the Labour Party – and that has raised the prospect of some tough negotiating with Brussels over the terms of Ireland’s EU financial rescue package.
Fianna Fail has dominated Irish politics for the best part of 90 years. But they were at the helm when the boom times of Ireland’s ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy collapsed, forcing them to go cap in hand for financial help. Tomorrow they will likely pay the price.
The nationalist. left-wing Sinn Fein party looks set to remain very much in the minority, having promised to walk away from the EU-IMF bailout completely.
But many of its sentiments are shared by the front runners.
“We want to stop the madness which is about putting the state further into debt and burdening working people, increasing unemployment and increasing emigration” said Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. “What’s needed is for people to come out on Friday and make a stand.”
The question many pollsters are asking about the outgoing Fianna Fail is not if it will be a record low result, but by how many seats.
Pro and anti-government supporters protest in Bahrain
Supporters of Bahrain’s Sunni royal family have come out in their thousands to back the king.
Official estimates put the number at 300,000 people who claim the country had enough freedoms and democracy.
A pro-government banker, Nader Mohammad said:
“We are here to support him (the King) to give him all the votes, all the support that they need, to show we are one unity and we, Sunni and Shia are all together in one hand and will support this country and will make this country one great nation.”
But in Pearl Square, the centre of the mainly Shia-led opposition revolt, the call was for the regime to go before beginning a meaningful dialogue for reform. The king’s move to pardon political prisoners and reshuffle the cabinet has not gone far enough for them.
Merkel party retains German state but battle looms
Germany’s ruling conservatives are celebrating success in provincial elections but a tougher test lies ahead next week.
The CDU emerged strongest in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Its governing coalition there with the Social Democrats, the SPD, looks set to be renewed. That likelihood was confirmed by Sigmar Gabriel, the national leader of the left-of-centre SPD, which only managed third place in the poll.
The runner-up was the far-left political movement Die Linke. Its candidate Wulf Gallert hopes the Social Democrats will join forces with his Left Party to run Saxony-Anhalt.
For Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU, it is so far so good, but the party risks suffering a major setback next weekend in the much bigger state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Assange criticises ‘rubber-stamp’ extradition
A British court has agreed to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden where the Wikileaks founder is accused of sex offences.
The judge rejected arguments that the Australian wouldn’t get a fair trial after the Swedish prime minister called him ‘public enemy number one’.
Afterwards, Assange again claimed the case against him was politically motivated, and criticised what he called a ‘rubber-stamp’ EU extradition procedure. He asked:
“Why is it that I am kept under electronic house arrest when I have not even been charged in any country? This case is not just about me, it is not just about the pressure the United States brings to bear on the United Kingdom and on Sweden and on the media, it offers a hope for reform of the EU arrest warrant system.”
His supporters fear he may end up being extradited from Sweden to the US and could even face the death penalty over WikileaksÂ’ disclosures.
But the judge said he believed Assange was wanted in Sweden purely on sex charges.
Assange, who denies the allegations, has 40 days to appeal.
Is Britain right to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden?
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u wil een blog maken over de actualiteit. Dan kan u bvb. dagelijks een bericht plaatsen met uw mening over iets uit de actualiteit. Bvb. over een bepaalde ramp, ongeval, uitspraak, voorval,... U geeft bvb. in de titel het onderwerp waarover u het gaat hebben en in het bericht plaatst u uw mening over dat onderwerp. Zo kan u bvb. meedelen dat de media voor de zoveelste keer het fout heeft, of waarom ze nu dat weer in de actualiteit brengen,... Of u kan ook meer diepgaande artikels plaatsen en meer informatie over een bepaald onderwerp opzoeken en dit op uw blog plaatsen. Indien u over meerdere zaken iets wil zeggen op die dag, plaatst u deze als afzonderlijke berichten, zo is dit het meest duidelijk voor uw bezoekers.
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- Bijvoorbeeld: u wil een blog maken met plaatselijk nieuws. Met uw eigen blog kan u zo zelfs journalist zijn. U kan op uw blog het plaatselijk nieuws vertellen. Telkens u iets nieuw hebt, plaats u een bericht: u geeft een titel op en typt wat u weet over het nieuws. Dit kan zijn over een feest in de buurt, een verkeersongeval in de streek, een nieuwe baan die men gaat aanleggen, een nieuwe regeling, verkiezingen, een staking, een nieuwe winkel, enz. Afhankelijk van het nieuws plaatst u iedere keer een nieuw bericht. Indien u veel nieuws heeft, kan u zo dagelijks vele berichten plaatsen met wat u te weten bent gekomen over uw regio. Zorg ervoor dat u telkens een nieuw bericht ingeeft per onderwerp, en niet zaken samen plaatst. Indien u wat minder nieuws kan bijeen sprokkelen is uiteraard 1 bericht per dag of 2 berichten per week ook goed. Probeer op een regelmatige basis een berichtje te plaatsen, zo komen uw bezoekers telkens terug.
- Bijvoorbeeld: u wil een blog maken met een reisverslag. U kan een bericht aanmaken per dag van uw reis. Zo kan u in de titel opgeven over welke dag u het gaat hebben, en in het bericht plaatst u dan het verslag van die dag. Zo komen alle berichten onder elkaar te staan, netjes gescheiden per dag. U kan dus op éénzelfde dag meerdere berichten ingeven van uw reisverslag.
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u wil een blog maken met tips op. Dan maakt u telkens u een tip heeft een nieuw bericht aan. In de titel zet u waarover uw tip zal gaan. In het bericht geeft u dan de hele tip in. Probeer zo op regelmatige basis nieuwe tips toe te voegen, zodat bezoekers telkens terug komen naar uw blog. Probeer bvb. 1 keer per dag, of 2 keer per week een nieuwe tip zo toe te voegen. Indien u heel enthousiast bent, kan u natuurlijk ook meerdere tips op een dag ingeven. Let er dan op dat het meest duidelijk is indien u pér tip een nieuw bericht aanmaakt. Zo kan u dus bvb. wel 20 berichten aanmaken op een dag indien u 20 tips heeft voor uw bezoekers.
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u wil een blog maken dat uw activiteiten weerspiegelt. U bent bvb. actief in een bedrijf, vereniging of organisatie en maakt elke dag wel eens iets mee. Dan kan je al deze belevenissen op uw blog plaatsen. Het komt dan neer op een soort van dagboek. Dan kan u dagelijks, of eventueel meerdere keren per dag, een bericht plaatsen op uw blog om uw belevenissen te vertellen. Geef een titel op dat zeer kort uw belevenis beschrijft en typ daarna alles in wat u maar wenst in het bericht. Zo kunnen bezoekers dagelijks of meermaals per dag terugkomen naar uw blog om uw laatste belevenissen te lezen.
- Bijvoorbeeld: u wil een blog maken uw hobby. U kan dan op regelmatige basis, bvb. dagelijks, een bericht toevoegen op uw blog over uw hobby. Dit kan gaan dat u vandaag een nieuwe postzegel bij uw verzameling heeft, een nieuwe bierkaart, een grote vis heeft gevangen, enz. Vertel erover en misschien kan je er zelfs een foto bij plaatsen. Zo kunnen anderen die ook dezelfde hobby hebben dagelijks mee lezen. Als u bvb. zeer actief bent in uw hobby, kan u dagelijks uiteraard meerdere berichtjes plaatsen, met bvb. de laatste nieuwtjes. Zo trek je veel bezoekers aan.
WAT ZIJN DIE "REACTIES"?
Een bezoeker kan op een bericht van u een reactie plaatsen. Een bezoeker kan dus zelf géén bericht plaatsen op uw blog zelf, wel een reactie. Het verschil is dat de reactie niet komt op de beginpagina, maar enkel bij een bericht hoort. Het is dus zo dat een reactie enkel gaat over een reactie bij een bericht. Indien u bvb. een gedicht heeft geschreven, kan een reactie van een bezoeker zijn dat deze het heel mooi vond. Of bvb. indien u plaatselijk nieuws brengt, kan een reactie van een bezoeker zijn dat deze nog iets meer over de feiten weet (bvb. exacte uur van het ongeval, het juiste locatie van het evenement,...). Of bvb. indien uw blog een dagboek is, kan men reageren op het bericht van die dag, zo kan men meeleven met u, u een vraag stellen, enz. Deze functie kan u uitschakelen via "Instellingen" indien u dit niet graag heeft.
WAT IS DE "WAARDERING"?
Een bezoeker kan een bepaald bericht een waardering geven. Dit is om aan te geven of men dit bericht goed vindt of niet. Het kan bvb. gaan over een bericht, hoe goed men dat vond. Het kan ook gaan over een ander bericht, bvb. een tip, die men wel of niet bruikbaar vond. Deze functie kan u uitschakelen via "Instellingen" indien u dit niet graag heeft.
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