It is petty to admit that we; in the Middle East are very poor in organizing our effort in driving WWW towards globalization (our globalization). Isam was searching from Arab Blogger for some time, I also did same for a while, sometimes succeeded, most-of-the-times failed to find them.
The problem is that our coders wizards are busy in doing their own stuff, I haven't seen real interest in organizing a community for Arab Blogger. Therefore, I was happy to see Jordan Planet as a first step on this road. I really hope it works and attract Arab Blogger.
Meanwhile, I have to admit that I was building something similar for a while. I will not disclose the name of the web site(s) now. However all ideas are welcome. What do you think will attract Arab Blogger.
IMHO, we need to have:
1. An aggregator web site
2. A Geo Directory
3. Online Blogger Code (similar to Blogger .com, Userland, Typepad, etc..)
However, I have to admit again that I'm not a programmer. Although I'm a hacker of some sort, but I can't really right full codes to do the above. That's why I spend more than 6 hours daily searching "Open Source" codes trying to find something that can be used to do any of the above. At the moment I got something that meets part of the first task (aggregator), however it is not automated. But that can be solved with a corn job, not big deal :-)
Once more, this is a open invitation for Arab coders to start presenting ideas so that we can all collaborate to make some difference for the Arab Blogger community.
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“But that can be solved with a corn job”
Sweet corn ? or cron Job? :P
hehe!
The closest thing you can ever get to Blogger and Open Source is one of those 2:
- Plone-based Quills
- b2evolution.
Anyhow, are you talking about a commercial project you are in ? or an open source project ? just to know the extent of the help we would provide :)
you forgot to put a link to Jordan planet, May I ?
http://www.jordanplanet.net
It’s an open source project so far. Can be provisioned later for a commercial version for some other purpose.
Anyway, I’ll look into what you suggested and will keep in touch. Hands to help are welcome :-)
Unfortunately I can’t help in this, no idea at all :P But I believe it’s a great idea to offer Arab bloggers such a great chance.
I am planning on creating a directory for Arab bloggers, something like white pages.
But creating the directory site is not the problem, but the problem would be to advertise this directory and have arab bloggers use it to enter their blog details.
Let me know what you think