Few days ago someone shared a link to a short movie that was one of the winners of a contest that is related somehow to the EU. The movie is in Arabic, and some who are into the Jordan TV, and it’s way of reporting will find it funny. I know I did. The movie is by Bassem Nasir, a Jordanian/Palestinian who works at Intel, and the movie won on the contest that had the theme “Intercultural Dialogue”.
I really liked the way it interacted with the viewer through the News bar below, and the predictability of the Interviewer putting in mind that he is doing it the Jordanian way :)
Tell me what you think about it..
Jordan, Movies & Entertainment, News & Politics
Although it is not like me to share such sites and links, I couldn’t resist. My friend Firas R. sent it to me, and I was astonished and captivated by it.. Check it out: Sand Art
Arts & So
Something strange just happened.. While I was having dinner and watching Future Channel on the TV with my sister. I saw her staring at the TV, with tears in her eyes. That was during some flashbacks, and the clips Future had been showing for the past days for the late Rafiq Al-Hariri. I was surprised, why would she cry ! I know that she is a girl, and is allowed to cry on anything (including movies and so) but it had already been a week for the tragic event, and my sister never cared about politics and people of politics. Why would a 17 years old (what !! she is 17 already !!! ) girl cry about it ! There are 10s of bombings in Iraq everyday, and 100s are killed every month, no one cares.. Is it because of Rafiq Al-Hariri ? No one can deny that he was a great person, but probably if we follow the story of each killed number or figure in Iraq or Palestine we would find a great person on his/her level that was lost in a tragic event.. What is it ?
I can play dull all day, but it is the power of media and TV. The great coverage and clips and flashbacks that Future TV is doing is helping in massively increasing the sympathy and polishing the image. This brought to my memory a recent piece of news I read about a Swedish Ad that enraged Italians.
This doesn’t mean that I don’t think that what happened to Rafiq Al-Hariri was ugly and a great loss, and that he is indeed a great person.. but I am not sure that this is the reason my sister cried.
News & Politics
Maybe it is part of me being an IT/Computer Freak, but I really believe that Google results, their number, and sorting mean something.. I remember a couple of years ago, searching for “Jordan” in Google or any search engine would give some sad results. Michael Jordan, and some other female celebrity with the name “Jordan” would take the first 1-2 pages of results, then you will find pages about Jordan that you want. It seemed to me that those individuals are larger than our country. I try to run some searches every now and then just to examine results.. recent searches for “Jordan” in Google started to show some good results, but still it isn’t what I hope for.
It may sound crazy to give a damn about how does google sort results, but if you understand who google ranks results it won’t sound that crazy. Google have some complex algorithms for Page Ranking. Basically, it depends on 3 simple factors: 1) The number of links to a site from other sites. 2) The thank of the linking sites. 3) Content of the linked site.
Understanding this, it means that people talk more about some celebrity called Jordan than they do about our Jordan. That doesn’t sound good!! Are we that insignificant on the Internet ? or is it that we are insignificant as a country in general ! or maybe people are dull and stupid to talk about and link to celebrities more than they talk about and link to the country of Jordan…
Anyhow, no one can deny that things are getting better in general, after all the Arab sobar s6ar was from Jordan (as if I care)..
Internet & Technology, Jordan
I stumbled upon an interesting piece of news. It seems that a Palestinian mother is asking Yahoo! for the password for the account of her deceased child who died in a bombing of Rafah last year. She says that in his Yahoo account he left a message and a will to her mother. As well there are pictures and photos that she would like to have access to. A similar story happened few months ago when a mother of an American Dead Soldier asked Yahoo for her son’s password.
I got into discussion about this with an online friend of mine, she thinks that the mother have no right to access her son’s account, while I see no harm. For example if the dead son had a closed closet or drawer, would anyone say that the family have no right to open it and look into it.. or look under his bed ? I am not sure, but for sure that doesn’t sound weird or odd for me.. What do you think ?
Internet & Technology, News & Politics
A book I started reading recently is “The 48 Laws of Power” by “Robert Greene”. Now this book had been in my to-read list for some years now, and I never got beyond reading the intro, but this time, I am going through with it.
The book attempts to state Laws of Power which according to the writer had been learned through a good read of the history and human nature. When I first read the laws in 2000 I felt that those are evil and unethical laws.. at least this is what I felt at the time. But as I went through reading them, it became more clear to me that it is wrong to judge from the cover and the index of the book. Basically, if I don’t want to practice those laws in my life, I can protect my self from those who do. I am still reading in the 6th law, but for sure, the book for my attention, and I will finish it this time.
We face power games in our daily life, everything starting with your relation with your closest poeple around you, to the most far from you. I don’t have plans to rule the world – like the Brain of Pinky and the Brain – but at least, better rule my life.
About Me
I am getting more emails and requests from people to join Jordan Planet. And to be frank, I am not sure what to do with those requests. Add to that, with a quick search in blogger, I found many Jordanian bloggers: Read more…
Internet & Technology, Jordan
Few days ago, the new site of “Jordan Planet” was introduced. It uses the well-known CMS Drupal. So far, I got positive feedback from Jordan Planet bloggers and readers, there are some points that we need to address, and some extra pages and privileges that should be created to get this thing going.
Now what concerns me is that Jordan Planet may be drifting from having “Quality Blogs”. The thing is, it can not be clearly defined, but at least, I think there should be a clearly announced definition of what kind of blogs Jordan Planet hosts, and would like to have. Basically, Jordan planet is about Personal Blogs, there are some Jordanian Blogs that are limited to either news, Daawa, rebloggging, jokes, tech-talk and so. A Personal blog in my opinion is a mixture of everything mentioned and above, and add to it the personal touch. Read more…
Internet & Technology, Jordan Planet