I don’t know anymore. I would say it’s a sad day, but I can’t remember one that wasn’t. Long story short, the Jordanian government is going on, what can best be described as, an anti-online free speech jihad. A decision has been made to monitor websites (most likely including the rising popularity of blogs) and […]

My favorite part about this? The King’s “double dare” application right beneath his photo reads: “I double dare King to do Crazy”.
If you can’t find humor in that, then you’re just not having enough fun in your life.
(I wonder if the Royal Guards will have something to say about the poking feature)

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The LA Times has an article about Ahmed Oweidi, an ex-MP who is head of a small political party, Jordan National Movement. I used to receive a lot of emails from their website for some reason and I guess they put me on a mailing list. I am pretty much at odds with a lot, […]

After all this time. After a great deal of frustration. After years of no archiving and broken links. After years of a design that looked like it was created when the Internet was born. Jordan Times gets a facelift.
Yes ladies and gentleman, the one and only Jordan Times has a new website that actually has […]

Throughout my online-virtual life, which I think became fully aware of itself in 2002, I have been a member of online Jordanian discussion forums (such as Mahjoob dot com) as well as Facebook groups more recently. Both such arenas of mass discussion have a high joining rate and a high turnover rate. I used to […]

It’s like Minority Report…but on a table. Just watch the videos and you’ll see.

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Probably one of the only things I enjoyed writing in the past several weeks.

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The BBC held a debate today at Zara Expo on whether the Internet was changing our world. “Our”, being the Middle East. The panel included Rania Kurdi who needs no introduction, Dana Suyagh who’s head of news at the yet to be launched ATV, Doud Kuttab who needs no introduction, the one and only Roba […]

So if YouTube and Flickr mated and the child by some act of God spoke Arabic, he would be named “Ikbis” (press). Such a birth has recently taken place in the Arab world. Everyone’s talking about Ikbis so I’m not going to go into a lengthy review. I just wanted to do my part as […]

In the 6th grade I won a spelling bee at my junior high school. I should have known it was all downhill from there.
Spell checkers have really done me in. It was once enough that Microsoft Word went around criticizing my every spelling mistake with red underline dashes but now Firefox is doing the same. […]

I hate telephones. I hate calling and I hate receiving calls. They are an absolute last resort for me. I hate cell phones more. I hate having to carry one around; it’s uncomfortable in my hand and uncomfortable in my pocket. I hate having one more thing to worry about losing or forgetting some place […]

I’ve been wondering lately about the future of blogging; overloading my mind with questions. What will it look like years from now? Will it fade away like a cyber fad? Will the bubble burst like Dot Coms of the late 90’s? Will everyone online have a blog and will we get sick of it? Will […]

If I counted right, there are 32 female bloggers from 114 total bloggers on Jordan Planet. This is about 28% if my 6th grade arithmetic skills still serve me well.
Why did I count? Because of the 27 bloggers whose blogs are listed in my links section based on the frequency of my surfing, 13 […]

Electronic Lebanon had various artists get together to make this Public Service Announcement. Amongst the faces are poets Suheir Hammad and Danny Hoch. Spread the word by posting the video on your blog.

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The first step is admitting you have a problem.
By way of the very entertaining Bloggers Anonymous…
10. You check your blog stats a LOT. You occasionally get up in the middle of the night and sneak a peak.
9. Your significant other suspects you are having an affair with your blog. Even when youâ??re alone with your […]