Back in December I had the opportunity to get a first look at Nokia’s new flagship device, the Nokia N97. The mobile phone, or as Nokia likes to call them: “mobile computer”, was just released in the market recently, selling for about 450JDs in Jordan. I’ve been fortunate enough to play around with it for […]

@QueenRania Dear Your Majesty, I hope this tweet finds you well. I should mention right off the bat that this tweet will be longer than the 140 characters typically allocated to me, but I’ll try my best to keep it short and well-worded as is often the case when addressing royalty. Your recent joining of […]

My Internet subscription ended a few days ago (I wish they had grace periods or something) and I have been generally without a connection for the past weeks, which, along with work, explains my blogging absence. I am partly to blame due to the fact that I’ve been taking my time “shopping” for a “good” […]

It took me a while to figure out how to write this post. The campaign has been an interesting learning experience and even a glimpse in to a few truths I was glad to have restored. One absolute truth stands out: there is a population of this country, perhaps not enormous but definitely large enough, […]

Dear Readers,
This morning, the 7iber crew will be hosting a little workshop on social networking in Jordan. Some of the topics that will be introduced and debated include privacy and ethics, the use of Facebook in social movements, the business community, and the political sphere, as well as its impact on Jordanian youth and the […]

So I’m here in Barcelona for the next 48 hours and I was lucky enough to attend the 14th Nokia World event. Less than an hour ago Nokia released it’s N97, probably, from the looks and specs of it, the most powerful device in the world. I’m actually blogging this from my N95 and it’s […]

How fast can someone put a book together on President-elect Obama? Well, on the day after Obama won the election, The Guardian created a Flickr group to find a creative way of capturing the victory. The group, which now has over 1,600 members, quickly became a collaborative effort to send various messages to Obama and […]

A bit of news has been spreading like wildfire these past few days in Amman: the new 8mb ADSL Internet connection from Orange. The advertisements have been popping up all over town and it naturally got me thinking about what such a leap in speed might mean for Jordan. Yes, it is not the most […]

Probably inspired by this post, the always creative Nadine sent this to me and I was rolling on the ground laughing by the end of it. This is probably one of the coolest things to come out on the Internet when it comes to these elections. It’s designed to encourage US citizens to vote, but […]

Several people have been asking me to create a Facebook page for The Black Iris for some time now and I have to be honest, I really never saw the sense in it. However, lately, there seem to be a few benefits that have convinced me to come over to the dark side, so to […]

I’m still loving the whole cultural element that has emerged from this election. The “Five Friends” campaign is a pretty interesting usage of Hollywood star power to encourage Americans to vote. It’s kind of ironic that in a democratic country you need the likes of Will Smith and Tom Cruise to give you a reason […]

This is a fairly interesting tale on Ammon today. Mayor Maani has ordered for various sites including local news websites like Ammon itself, be blocked from Greater Amman Municipality computers. GAM employees seem to be spending way too much time reading online instead of working. It’s funny how government employees drinking coffee and reading newspapers […]

If an everyday houseplant had the ability to blog, what would it say? Unfortunately I have no idea because the houseplant in question blogs in Japanese.

The plant interface system, which is built around technology developed by Satoshi Kuribayashi at the Keio University Hiroya Tanaka Laboratory, uses surface potential sensors to read the weak bioelectric […]

Technorati, the Internet’s blogging search engine and most accurate ranker of blogs, has published its “State of the Blogosphere” for 2008. Some of the findings are pretty interesting when it comes to global blogging:
The majority of global bloggers are male…

Around half of the world’s bloggers are from the US but I’m not sure how accurate […]

I found this BBC article pretty interesting. The oldest bible in the world, the Codex Sinaiticus, which was lost and scattered for a very long time, is now being put together for the first time, online. And starting July 2009, anyone any where can read it online, which I think is pretty cool and an […]

Who would’ve thought that blogs, social networking, SMS messages and the Internet in general, would be such a Ramadan-enabler, creating what is perhaps a Ramadani Web 2.0 subculture in the Arabian peninsula. Here’s a sampling of just some of the SMS messages that arrived to my cell phone since Ramadan began…
[translated from Arabic] The month […]