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Month: February 2006

  • Blogs, media and the cartoon war

    MEDIA | Are blogs bringing people closer together or bring us closer to to conflict. Ahmad Humeid investigates. To what extent was last century’s mass media responsible for wars, mass murder and mass subjugating ideologies? Louis Rossetto, the man who in the early 90s founded and published the digital zeitgeist magazine Wired, certainly thinks that…

  • Fashion Blog spam or real comment?

    A few days I got the following comment on one of my ‘cartoon-war’ related posts: In a world full of sectarianism and religious belligerence is Fashion the unlikely saviour? Most people would agree Fashion is colour blind; when a customer buys an item of fashion do they ever question the colour, ethnicity, social background or…

  • Are we tall or what

    OK. I decided to reveal the secret sauce behind SYNTAX. The Committee of the High Design Priests/Sheikhs can be seen here evaluating designs. And yes, we are that tall. That’s the secret. Read these related posts on 360east: Attack of the chinese blog spammers (and why Safari’s Javascript sucks and Camino’s rules)

  • “Chained by my identity to a destiny that isn’t mine.. and yet I don’t leave”

    The Desert Pundit writes: Desert Pundit: Late night rambling “I stand here, a very “westernized” Arab, wondering if I belong here anymore. I wake up to hear about mosques being blown up and reprisal killings, about journalists being executed, about death cultists who wanted to blow an oil facility. In my land everything changes but…

  • Amman’s Apple ‘Store’.. or shall I say ‘center’ will open Sunday

    So here it is! The long rumored Amman Apple store. Well, actually it is really an Apple Center. Real Apple Stores (those run directly by Apple) only exist, at the time of this writing, in the US, Canada, Japan and the UK. But what the heck. This is great. I literally stumbeld upon the new…

  • Dumb US Senators and dumber bloggers

    If you have been following business news lately you surely have heard about Dubai-based Dubai Ports taking over global port giant P&O. Pretty impressive stuff for Dubai. The US Congress is not happy about the deal and some senators are trying to stir up a scare about an Arab company ‘running’ some US ports. Guess…

  • Pro Palestine ‘Paradise Now’ Petition

    Received this from a friend: Anti-Palestine pressure to remove film ‘Paradise Now’ from Oscar bid AND to remove reference to the film being from ‘Palestine’! Please read articles below and sign the COUNTER petition to support the nomination and to name Palestine as the country! http://www.petitiononline.com/para222/petition.html More than 11,000 people have signed a petition for…

  • Software outsourcing and offshore development: an inside view from China

    Under the title ‘China. We’re not India’ this Always-On story gives an insider view of the opportunities, challenges (and sheer size) of the software outsourcing industry in China, while comparing it to India. Remember, in Jordan we were saying, we ‘don’t want to be India’, we ‘want to be Ireland’. At the height of the…

  • The UAE’s newest telecom brand: du

    Telecom liberalization is knocking the UAE’s door. The country’s second telecom operator, which was tentatively called Emirates Integrated Telecommunication Company has revealed its brand: du. A shockingly simple name and a very abstract design. The logo, as implemented on the company’s launch site is implemented in different colors on different pages, including blue, navy, green…

  • Nokia Concept Store to open in Mecca Mall

    The development of retail in Jordan is definitely heating up. Larger and more sophisticated stores are on the way. I expect this trend to gain even more momentum with opening of City Mall (this year?). In Mecca Mall I noticed that a new Nokia Concept Store is being constructed on the ground floor of the…

  • What do you think of the new JTV?

    Have you watched JTV recently? I am interested to know what you think of it. The reason I’m asking is because I’m doing a bit of research on the matter for an upcoming article.. What do you think of the content.. And what about the new look. I’d really appreciate if you people out there…

  • Aqaba doubles its fast food offerings, with a bang!

    While in Aqaba on Friday, I heard that the Ayla Park project would be opened that evening. I was there in time for the big fireworks and the loud Arabic pop music. The Ayla park is a retail development project that mainly features, at the moment, fast food outlets. So this is something geared toward…