March 2010
Newsletter Number 126
One of the websites that have accompanied AboutMalta.com on the MaltaMedia Online Network (MMON) is maltafootball.com – the website about Maltese soccer, established in 1996. Just as AboutMalta.com started going through a radical restructuring towards the end of last year, Malta’s favourite sports site is now also operating through new web technology. This continues to give MMON websites new ways to serve the hundreds of thousands of internet users that visit them each month.
Changes at maltafootball.com are a little less radical than the ones you’ve experienced on AboutMalta.com. There are various reasons for this, but the most significant one cames through the steady leadership that Antoine Busuttil who has served as editor on that site since its inception all those years ago.
Although I am personally not much of a sports fan I’m still very pleased with the new maltafootball.com and know for a fact that the rest of my MaltaMedia Online Network are equally thrilled to see yet another of our sites go from strength to strength. More than anything else, this is due to the loyal following we have received from Internet users like you over the years.
Toni Sant
Consulting Editor
1. MaltaMedia.com Daily News from February 2010
01 Video: Maltese society split by censorship issue
02 Over €25m in missing Maltese coins
03 Louis Galea confirms nomination to European post
04 Less than 50% of Maltese positive about EU
05 Arrests made after Casino di Venezia hold-up
06 Archbishop warns of EU pressures on abortion, euthanasia
07 Video: Two seriously injured in traffic accident
08 Video: Hit man offered €23,000 for murder
09 New European Commission approved, John Dalli resigns
10 Video: Dr Joseph Cassar sworn in as new Minister
11 Video: Pope to pass through 33 localities
12 Video: Unions to protest against utility tariffs
13 Video: 519 newly-separated couples in 2008
14 Two teens charged with assault
15 Video: Bank accounts reveal Gozitans’ wealth
16 Malta appeals to EU regarding Libya visa dispute
17 40-year-old man found dead in Hal Far
18 Video: Peter Micallef elected in casual election
19 Costa Rican arrested following drug find
20 Malta 15th best place to live in the world
21 Video: Thea Garrett for Eurovision Song Contest 2010
22 Video: Two dead in Qormi fireworks factory blast
23 Video: Man arraigned over Marsaxlokk murder
24 Video: 18-year-jail term for road rage aggressor
25 Video: Fierce blaze destroys two stores
26 Elderly man involved in grave accident
27 Video: Malta warned over lack of air quality plan
28 Bay of St Paul’s shipwreck doubted
2. Top Web Picks
a. maltafootball.com
The Maltese Soccer Website was established in 1996. It became part of the MaltaMedia Online Network in 1999 and has remained the world’s foremost website on the subject of football in Malta ever since. A new design and a rebuild of the technology behind it are now propelling it into the future enabling all Maltese soccer fans to follow their teams better than ever before.
b. Your Comments and Messages
Now that the old AboutMalta.com Visitors Book section has been completely withdrawn, we are urging our website visitors to leave comments on the AboutMalta.com website by simply visiting the newsletter from the main page at AboutMalta.com. All comments and messages appear at the bottom of the newsletter archived on the website after they’ve been reviewed by a moderator.
3. This Month in Maltese History
40 YEARS AGO ( 31 March 1970 )
U.S. President Richard Nixon sends moon rock fragments to Maltese Prime Minister George Borg Olivier.
25 YEARS AGO ( 10 March 1985 )
Radio Zagreb of Yugoslavia starts broadcasting the novel Il-Gidba (The Lie) by Oliver Friggieri in its Serbo-Croat version published in Belgrade in 1982.
10 YEARS AGO ( 21 March 2000 )
Opposition leader Alfred Sant insists that the government should stop the debate on amendments to the law which regulates broadcasting in Malta; speaking in the House of Representatives Dr. Sant makes it clear that he is totally against having more powers assigned to the Broadcasting Authority, proposing that the Authority should only be responsible to scrutinize Public Broadcasting Services.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
3 March 1962: Debbie Caruana Dingli, Artist
4 March 1963: Joe Demicoli, Entertainer
25 March 1969: Debbie Scerri, Singer
27 March 1947: Oliver Friggieri, Poet/Writer
DEATH ANNIVERSARIES
1 March 1930: Giuseppe Cali, Artist, dies at 84
13 March 2005: Ġuze’ Cassar Pullicino, Folklorist, dies at 83
17 March 1996: Vitorin Galea, Actress, dies at 67
22 March 1971: Pietru Pawl Saydon, Biblical Scholar, dies at 76
Today in Maltese History is produced exclusively for aboutmalta.com by Mario Axiaq.
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domnic
proset ta kollox ..
imma jekk tamlu bil malti ukol tajjeb ghal min majqrax b’inglis grazzi
Joseph Fenech
Hello!
Love the new format,but will aboutmalta eventually have a page similar to the old “visitors”page?Thank You.
Regards Joseph .Cairns/Australia
Toni Sant
@ Dominic: Grazzi tas-suġġeriment. Nixtiequ ħafna nagħmlu verżjoni bil-Malti ukoll, l-aktar għax fuq kollox il-Malti huwa lsien tassew sabiħ. Sfortunament ir-riżorsi tagħna huma limitati u l-isforż jinħass kbir wisq meta nevalwaw l-ammont veru ta’ nies li jużaw l-internet li jafu jaqraw bil-Malti imma mhux bl-Ingliż.
@Joseph: Thanks for the question. We’re considering having a page similar to the old visitors page, but we need to see how we can do that and at the same time avoid some of the difficulties we encountered with it in recent months.
joseph zammit
what is being done to preserve ancient sites?
does anyone know of band-flagstaffs made in the 1930′?
Joseph Fenech
Hi Toni!
Thank You for the prompt response to my original question regarding a “visitor’s page”in your new version of aboutmalta.com .I do appreciate the problems one could encounter trying to scrutinise the amount of material sent.
Keep up the good work.
Regards .Joseph Fenech. Cairns/Australia.