Media Interest in Seidenfeld case spreads

Media Interest, May 2 through 10.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Quite Simply Spreads the Word
Ilan Greenberg’s New York Times article on Mark Seidenfeld and its sister story in the International Herald Tribune have had an impact far beyond even their wide circulation and authority in those well-respected and widely-circulated newspapers.  Their stories get picked up by other newspaper internet sites through RSS and are disseminated globally.  Regional and local outlets continue to stream the stories to local papers, and those local papers send Mark Seidenfeld’s story to the computers of their subscribers, whether in Hong Kong, Moscow, Brussels, or Houston. 

A new story on Mark’s case went out on Press Release 365, which also enjoys world syndication through RSS.

A brief (and necessarily incomplete) list of parties who used RSS to stream Ilan Greenberg’s article should hint at how widespread the story of Mark Seidenfeld’s plight has become.

RSS feeds in North America:
UnitedStatesNews.net; North America News.net; The Maine Mirror; The San Diego Sun; The Dallas Sun; Indianapolis Post.com; The Florida Statesman; The USNews.com; The Boston Star; The Detroit Star; The Las Vegas Herald; The Tucson Post; The Atlanta Leader; The New Orleans Sun; The Oregon Telegraph.

RSS in South America:
Latin America News.net; The Venezuela Star; The Brazil Sun; Argentina Star.

Asia-Pacific RSS:
Asia-Pacific News.net; The China National News; North Korea Times; The Hong Kong Herald; Japan News; The Taiwan Sun; The Asia Bulletin.

Central Asia and the Caucasus RSS:
Central Asia News.net; Azerbaijan News.net; Mongolia News.net; The Afghanistan Sun; the MuslimUzbekistan site; Caucaz.com

News from the blogosphere:
In the blog roundup of last week, we missed a very important entry from a blog that serves the legal community.  On April 24, The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times featured a post on Mark’s unjust incarceration.

On May 4, KZ blog announced the opening of this site, Help Mark Seidenfeld and Boycott Ducat, and discussed the potential ramifications of Mark’s case for Kazakhstan’s business climate.  This blog entry incited numerous comments and attention.

On May 10, Neweurasia.net featured a post by Derek Bloom on Mark’s plight, entitled “An American in Almaty is held in Kazakhstan under false charges“.  Neweurasia.net is an extremely important international blog with points of contact in many states of the CIS, Europe, and North America. 

The attention to Mark’s unjust imprisonment is not going to go away.