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bloggers meeting (2)

today was the kuwaiti bloggers meeting , tatabotata chose souk Sharq starbucks , it was crowded , i think it sucks much

and he didn’t come ! we couldn’t tell him how much the place sucked.

not much pictures this time also , i was soo taken by coversation i forgot to take pictures , not to mention that my laptop WiFi card ( which i changed after the last one stoped working ) was missing its drivers and i didn’t install them before

Lonely

anyway , this time we had
Nibaq or as some call him blogging godfather
Bloboz the man with crazy thought , the man you always agree with , the blogger who everyone enjoy his posts they steal it
busynow who didn’t bring his psp to tease us ( thank god )
also Sam was there

As always, discussion after discussion, we had fun , learned some intresting stuff

view of the night from where i was setting

Liberation tower

thanks for the fun night blogpals© 🙂

digital future

Two days ago , i read this at nibaq post
about the digital future of hollywood

it seem that the digital revolution did not stop , after the blogs and online donation effect in the 2004 election

Its now charging TV

Al gore and other investor have started Current TV which according to yahoo news What seprate this channel and others is that

Central to their strategy is inviting Current’s viewers to supply their own video content and helping them produce it using editing tools that Current will make available on its Web site.

That video eventually will comprise more than half the programming seen on the channel.

So its going to have more home movies in it that regular TV , and some of these just rock , as seen on some internet sites like ifilm

if you can’t adopt , you don’t live long , and thats why companies like sega nearly closed

Arab comics sudden intrest

It seem that the arab comic market is going to jump big time

First there is the first arab comic books , not a translated one but new heros and stories
heroes like Rakan, Lone Warrior and Aya, Princess od Darkness
from AK comics

And now the US Army is creating its own comic , and its for arabs !
as seen in this Business Opportunities page ( for contracts )
( why can’t we have something like that in kuwait ? )

The series will be based on the security forces, military and police, in the near future in the Middle East in cooperation with the Ministries of Interior of some of those countries. The comic series will be subject to change based on initial focus group testing of a prototype comic. If the subject matter for a specific comic does not do well in its intended focus group then it may be dropped and/or a new basis for the comic will be selected. There may be opportunities for this series to continue and additional comic series to be developed next year based on feedback from the first series.

The comic is being produced by US Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

Fort Bragg is home to the army’s 4th Psychological Operations Group, known as “psy-op warriors”, whose weaponry includes radio transmitters, loudspeakers and leaflets.

BBC article on US army comic
BBC article on first arab comic

Of course it would join the list of many tries to jumpstart comic market in the arab world
like spiderman / x-men comic done in egypot in the 90’s
spiderman backup comic in grendizer comic
the superman / batman comic dones in egypt

another intersting site that use google

well , i love google ( duh ? ) i did write two post before about it
first post about google
more from google

what i like best about it is the API , and how people keep on building stuff using it
like
TouchGraph a site that draw a graph for your site and show you who link to you (using google )

well , now there is a new google tool on the block , and thats montage-a-google
it search for picture about a keyword you enter and makes it a nice moasic painting
kuwait

its nice looking , right ? 🙂

Arabic Apprentice

Well, everyone was bombarded with ads about the Arabic version of the Apprentice
With Mohammed Ali Alabbar, I’m sure a lot would say who? Since the original version in American is hosted by Donald Trump ranking 205 of the richest men on earth with 2.5 billion

I have seen some episode of the Apprentice , and I think that the thing that pull people to watch is that the host is known , not only is he a billionaire , he is a famous one , why couldn’t they do the same with the Arabic version .

not only the guy isn’t rich ( which in the end how people know you made it in business ) but he was for the longest time of his age a government worker , and in every place , the government isn’t the best place for business minds

They could have gone with people who are self made , and forbs list is full of them
Like Mohamed A Al-Bahar , Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud , Saleh Kamel or Khalaf Al Habtoor

You know, having made it big make you more believable to the people, ask you self this
Who would you take for stock advice, me or Jassim Al-Bahar.