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“next is u. We’re in the neighborhood. :)” “your frnd was screaming like a girl.” This was a comment left by a Maldivian Facebook user on a post mourning the murder of blogger Yameen Rasheed. It was just one of many cyber threats made against the 29-year-old’s friends and others in the wake of his killing on April 23. In the days since Yameen’s mutilated body was found in the stairway to his apartment, his family members and friends said their grief has been compounded by threats of more killings, and an array of comments by clerics and other religious figures, justifying his murder claiming he was an apostate. Human rights advocates said the threats, as well as the violent discourse around apostasy, was chilling evidence of deepening radicalisation in the Maldives. Without government action, they said they feared there would be more killings. Yameen’s murder was met with an outpouring of grief and tributes to his courage and advocacy for free speech despite the numerous death threats he received. As some tributes flowed, a new website cropped up, http:thedu.xyz, with an article entitled, “There is no praying for mercy for Yameen Rasheed, who mocked religion.” The article was shared widely across Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms before the website was taken down. The article on Thedhu, meaning truth in Dhivehi, said apostasy and mocking Islam were punishable by death and was accompanied by selective verses from the Qura’n and the Prophets Sunnah, his wor...

LinkedIn and 3rd parties use essential and non-essential cookies to provide, secure, analyze and improve our Services, and to show you relevant ads (including professional and job ads) on and off LinkedIn. Learn more in our Select Accept to consent or Reject to decline non-essential cookies for this use. You can update your choices at any time in your Today I completed 10 years of business blogging. My first blog post dates back to 26 January 2006. Since then, I have blogged on multiple industries including technology, social media, marketing and advertising reaching blog readers in more than 100 countries. I have broken news globally before mainstream media. I have made more than $100,000 of revenue with the help of my blogs, even though I do not place paid advertisements on any of my blogs. I have worked and collaborated with world’s leading brands through blogging. And I have helped people launch successful blogs of their own, find jobs, hire talent even make life-changing career decisions. I would like to share with you 10 critical lessons I have learnt that can help you if you run, write for or manage a blog. 1. Blogging on a free platform can be better than paid hosting. Sometimes. I first started blogging on I have learnt that while self-hosted blogs on paid servers give better control over design and features, free blogs on Wordpress.com can have greater page rank, higher authority, faster page loading, search indexing within seconds of publication and greater disc...

I had the pleasure of working on TRON:Uprising from 2011-2012. The experience was invaluable and a time filled with creative memories I'll remember forever. Thanks to Charlie Bean and Albeto Mielgo for the awesome experience. I was mainly responsible for Vehicle Design working along with Daniel Simon and Vaughan Ling. Whenever there was down-time, I moved on to do environments for the show. It was a nice blend, and I was always on my toes. Here are some of my select few pieces from the many, many pieces of art created: This is a new short film/conceptual video I directed for Nike at Art Center College of Design. Worked with amazing and passionate people. I was going to list the people that had the most impact on the short... but the list became too large. Johnny Ngo, the A.D. on the project really held us from the brink of insanity. Couldn't have done it without him. Katsushi Katayama, VFX supervisor, put in more time than I could have asked. He was the golden savior on the project. David Chen ( Gabriele Pasqualino, Saiful Haque, Assaf Horowitz, Joe Feinsilver, Vaughan Ling, and many others were an absolute invaluable part of the team throughout the project. And of course, Pier-pictures you can find some process/concept art I did for this on my website: Hello all, A while back I had the opportunity to work on the recent feature Snow White and the Huntsman directed by Rupert Sanders. It was a great opportunity, and I learned so much from Rupert and the others. I was mainly ...