Tag Archives: Creative Commons

CC-Licensed Post #3: Que pensez-vous des blogs?, via Carpe Diem and Nawaat.org

Written by jessica. Posted on April 3, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , , . No comments.
On March 27, blogger Carpe Diem posted analysis of two polls that had been published in the Tunisian newspaper Le Temps. Carpe Diem (hereafter CD) is a member of Nawaat, a trilingual Tunisian collective blog chock-full with coverage of news and politics and rich multimedia content (click on the Nawaat 2.0 Hub in the [...]

CC-Licensed Post #2: Time Travel to Jeddah, via Roba Al-Assi

Written by jessica. Posted on March 31, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , . 1 Comment.
How were they so cool when there wasn’t any Internet to keep track of trends is what I can’t stop thinking about. —Roba Al-Assi
I don’t know Roba Al-Assi, but I started hearing her voice during ArabNet. She was one of the bloggers covering the event. But I first got wind of her wit on Twitter at @robaassi, where her current avatar is a pair of red Converse sneakers, remixed to look like smiley faces. I can’t remember exactly [...]

CC-Licensed Post: Blogger Jou3an Intimidated in Lebanon, via Lebanese NightS

Written by jessica. Posted on March 30, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , . No comments.
Khodor Salameh was told to stop criticizing the president on his blog Jou3an.
Today is our first post in what we hope is an ongoing series that will feature content from blogs and elsewhere licensed under Creative Commons. We tend to use CC-licensed visuals more than text, so we want to experiment with republishing posts as a way of both extending our online communities and making the [...]

SMEX Goes to PICNIC ‘09

Written by jessica. Posted on September 23, 2009. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
PICNIC09 attendees could catch up on Tweets under the Twitter tree.
This month, SMEX was invited to speak at PICNIC ‘09, a three-day event in Amsterdam where media people, arts and architecture people, entertainment people, journalists, science folks, and a whole lot of others get together to push the edges of new ideas. Below is Mohamad’s presentation about The Arab Social Web, a panel convened by [...]

Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon, Oh My! Digital and Social Media Training in the Arab World

Written by jessica. Posted on May 18, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
We can’t keep up. It seems like every time we open our inbox, another digital media training is taking place in the Arab world, in Jordan or Egypt (update May 19: we learned about another training in Egypt from ifikra)—or, of course, at the end of this month in Lebanon, as we initiate our own [...]