Abed Hamdan

Why do you Blog ?

صارلي فترة منغلق على نفسي شوية ..وأصبحت متقلب المزاج بطريقة لم يعتد عليها أحد من أصدقائي

سريع الانفعال…وفقدت كل قدراتي الدبلوماسية في كل مجالات حياتي

يعني بطلت أسكت على أصغر الأمور..وحاسس إني مش مطالب إني أسكت ولا أتحمل حماقات أحد, ومش مجبور أحمل أو أبرر أخطاء أحد..اللي فيني مكفيني

صرت أتبع مبدأ يا أبيض يا أسود…الكلام معي صار صعب والنقاش صار شبه مستحيل

يعني يا ملاك يا شيطان..مافي وسط…وبطلت أتحمل نفاق ..وبطلت أعطي شهادة براءة لا لنفسي ولا لأحد

هذا تغير مش مفاجىء ولكن كان متوقع…لأن كثرة السكوت تولد الانفجار…

على العموم من المدونات القليلة اللي لفت نظري مدونة محمد عمر

رجل رائع, وانسان مثقف صاحب ضمير

وهذا شيء صار نادر هذي الأيام للأسف

http://www.mohomar.com/mohomar

It’s the first time I write a “blog of the day” post, but seriously guys, for the first time I get surprised, delighted, and amused by a blog of a young girl. There are so many young girls bloggers out there, and they’re really good, but this blog took my attention today.

I know I am not a regular blogs reader anymore, but lately I’ve been reading left and right, randomly, whatever I stumble upon, specially if the post is short. I found some pattern in the blogs, a boring pattern to be honest. So I stopped. Then I went back to the blogs I used to read few years back, such as Qwaider, Ola, Rasha, Moey, Sou, and they are as exciting as they used to be. But Shaden’s blog (The Sugar Cubes) was the one that made my day.

Her writing style has matured big time. Not that it wasn’t good, it was very good, but now it’s becoming influential, brief, and profoundly powerful. Something I really missed.

Perhaps I am just sick of the hypocrisy in the middle east, and I can’t stand one more hypocrite post, kissing the ass of one government (for whatever reason), or cheerleading for one not-so-sexy blogger. Seriously guys, we’ve had it.

And I didn’t change my mind, for those who knew me long enough, they know that I firmly believe that the most depraved of all aren’t the simple ones who go with the flow, no I actually pitty those, and I can go as far as considering them my brothers. I can also skip the fact that they can be harmful, because they do it unintentionally. I’d like to quote Plato on this:

“As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers “

and dear Lord, how many empty vessels do we have!!

I can go on and make execuses for those, but at certain point we need to shut them up.

Now going back to the most depraved of all, in my very humble opinion, I think the most depraved of all are those who know they support the devil, and they do it intentionally. They know themselves, and they have their own agenda. We all know it. They know it.

Sometimes they belong to a certain family, and that family is known for its support to a certain party, and money talks here.

Others belong to a certain group, with certain beliefs. Be it religous, political, or whatever. Those will just do about anything to support their party. Even when they know they’re wrong, they will do it malicously, continuously, and they can write infleuntial articles. Those I have no mercy for.

I quit writing for a while now, for so many reasons. It’s not that I don’t have time (my regular lame execse). I have all the time in the world, actually I have time to read those thousands of pages books, and I finish them in 3 days sometimes. Along with that, I pass sophisticated exams, and work for 14 - 16 hours sometimes. So yes, I am the king of my own time, I always have time.

There are so many reasons why I don’t write any more, some of which are too personal to share, and some aren’t that important. All in all, I won’t share why I do not write. It’s not important at all. Whatever.

I know I post “things” sometimes, but this is not writing. This is not what I do. One song, picture, or one quote isn’t quite me.

My writing style is not organized anymore, this post was supposed to be about The Sugar Cubes, and I just made it about me.

The sugar cubes is a blog worth reading, an honest intellecual is the least to say.

I want to start blogging again!! I really want to !

I don’t have internet connection at home, that’s why I don’t read/write blogs anymore!! It’s not that tempting to blog from net cafes, especially when you don’t go to cafes very often.

I’ll try to do something about it, I have to!! because I really missed blogging and missed communicating with fellow bloggers via blogs instead of social networks (i.e facebook).

So what are the latest bloggers’ news ? anything new ?

There are like millions of things I wanted to blog about, but didn’t have the heart to.

There are something I’d like to say in brief:

1) Thanks to Ola for the distinguished effort. Here.

2) Good luck SouqElArab, and thanks for the offer. Here.

3) Thank you Kris, and good luck. Here.

4) Good luck Assom with the new blog. Here.

5) Good luck Search4jordan. Here.

6) Sorry If you contacted me and I didn’t respond, I have some good excuse.

7) I was in deep shit, now things are getting better Insha’Allah.

I’m alive btw lol

I’ll be away for a couple of days or a couple of weeks. I’ve got some family issues.

Be safe everybody, I’m gonna miss you all.

It’s been a week and I don’t have any sort of internet connection

Jordan Telecom is to blame! but you know what, life can be joyous without internet! lord knows how I miss you all my friends

I’m still offline, blogging from an internet cafe is a new experience!

anyway, I will publish some of my old drafts, and do forgive me for not visiting your blogs or being late in replying your valuable comments. We should strike Jordan Telecomm

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting some bloggers of http://jordanblogs.net , the Jordanian blogosphere community.

It was a great experience indeed. meeting people you know -and those you don’t know- for almost a year just through blogging and comments. The idea itself was awkward somewhat, and I never expected having so much fun with people I meet for the first time.

The most interesting thing about the people I met is their level of maturity, and their outstanding awareness, and that’s the least to say

I don’t wanna mention names right now, but you can take a look at the pics. Oh by the way, Shaden uploaded the pics of the meeting, ..she’s dead already, im convinced.

My pics are the worst pics ever; so now let the humor begins:

How did I manage to have a shining face ?? did I use Detol or Flash cleaner ?? that’s the million dollars question.

Shy ?? why, Im showing a gayish smile, does this have anything to do with the newly controversial blog aka “gay Jordan”, whose author happens to be living in Irbid ???

My leg looks more like a cow leg; Is this a sufficient proof of Darwin’s Evolution theory ??? and If so, does that make me related to the cows breed ???

and Oh, this is Khaled on my right side, and M.Q on the left side..

Khaled is starring at M.Q, and M.Q looks more like a Syrian minister, given the fact that M.Q is Syrian….

does this make M.Q a Syrian intellegince agent ??

is this a proof that Khaled works for the CIA ??

and if so, did the meeting end with a fight between the two dudes ???

man, we are so … losers, and Im a public joke already

Click here to see more pics of the meeting.

http://ayaalmusa.blogspot.com < == this blog, “aya almusa” is hacked,

don’t visit the blog , it will redirect you to a malicious website that will install a virus (trojan horse) on your computer…

now let’s answer the “thinking” (or shall we say the “linking” ? ) tag.

by Khaled Nazzal. The rules are simple:

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).

mmm, all the blogs I read make me think …mmm

then I’ll take the chance to introduce my new friens, Palestinians 48…If you don’t know what the term mean, I assure you Im gonna talk about it soon, so stay tuned!

1) Mnoosh

2) Bakria

3) She Devil

4) Almotasha2el

They are just 4 ??? mmm,

5) My Arabic blog

My blogging personality:

Your Blogging Type is Confident and Insightful

You’ve got a ton of brain power, and you leverage it into brilliant blog. Both creative and logical, you come up with amazing ideas and insights. A total perfectionist, you find yourself revising and rewriting posts a lot of the time. You blog for yourself - and you don’t care how popular (or unpopular) your blog is!

via +Raeef+

so do you really think I have such “blogging” personality ??

I hopefully fixed the Commenting bug…I got some complaints about the commenting system here.

Please try to add comment here, and if it doesn’t work properly please feed me back on hamdan_abed@ieee.org

thanks in advance !

Hii

I moved to wordpress and my domain name ! thanks to MoeY

Many difficulties encountered due to the NEW BLOGGER!! I had to use external script to import from NEW BLOGGER!

Fortunately, posts and comments were imported! UNFORTUNATELY, the damned importer didn’t import comments properly! It only shows the last 25 comments of each post!! this is screwed up!!

Do you have any idea how to fix it ??

I don’t know, perhaps I’ll just let it go or maybe I’ll import them manually !

Anyway, tell me how do you like the new theme ???

I’m still looking for new themes, and I also need to categorize my posts and update the side bar widgets: blogroll, pages, ..

so please if I happen to appear on your blogroll, update your bookmarks and edit my link!

Prof. Karen McCullagh is requesting bloggers to take this survey. She commented on my last post and she’s kindly asking us to take this survey.

Hi Abed,

I’m conducting an online survey to explore the privacy attitudes and expectations of bloggers.

Please click to take part in the survey: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/privacysurvey/

If you participate you will be asked to answer questions anonymously about your blogging practices and your expectations of privacy when publishing online. All answers will be stored and analysed on a confidential basis.
The responses will be used to inform academic and policy discussions on blogging practices and attitudes towards privacy.

Finally, could you please encourage other bloggers to participate in the study.

It takes less than 5 minutes to complete the survey!

For further information on my research please visit
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/km.htm or, email:
Karen.mccullagh@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

I am a PhD researcher at CCSR, University of Manchester, England. I am sponsored by the ESRC and Office of the Information Commissioner, UK.

Many thanks,

Karen

I took the survey, it didn’t take much time! yallah guys, go and take it

Ladies and gentlemen,

let me introduce you to the new squirrel (#5) on iBaloo6 (The New kick-ass Arab blogs aggregator )

His Highness , the Iranian President : Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad !!!!

He sent me an email, and he wants his blog to be added to iBaloo6 !

I think im gonna send an email to North Korea, hmmm..

lol

Now, iBaloo6 has Nukes!

Mess with us….

and we will NUKE up UR ASSSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!

MuaHaHaHaHaHAHAHAHAHA

============== Update: North Korea !! ==============

According to our secret agent in the white house, secret negotiations are taking place between iBaloo6 team and North Korea to add North Korea to the new iBaloo6 aggregator. North Korea promised the iBaloo6 team to provide them with the necessary nuclear technology to build their own squirrel nuclear bombs.

[ Image Source: Pritchett Cartoons ]

DISCLAIMER: Any attempt of blackmailing, harassing, or messing with iBaloo6 would result to terrible consequences the most terrible consequences, and if you are not with us then you are against us.

Two squirrels, in the barren land next door, look across the purple fence: the green pastures crowded with various toot trees varying in length, color, and age. The squirrels turn back to the barren land, and suddenly… magic, a small acorn tree surfaces the ground…

Do you have a strong “wasta” with the iBaloo6 management and wish for your blog to be reviewed and added in the coming hour? Feel free to leave a comment!

P.S: Official launch in month, la77e2 7alak dabber wasta…please make sure you don’t leave your blog empty, copy/paste into 8 posts, just for the sake of formalities when you add you.

+ MoeY

+ Amino

==== Update: New iBaloo6ians ====

+ MaLa2e6

+ Qwaider

I will try to summarize the discussion we had here on how to reduce or manage the time spent on writing/reading blogs, and I will add my own tips.

1) If you have a very long free time, then don’t bother reading this!

2) Previously agree on the amount of time you want to spend reading other blogs before you start. (e.g: say you will spend one hour reading blogs before you start, so that you don’t spend more!.) You can also give it a weekly time, like 7 hours a week (1 hr a day).

3) Use RSS readers. If you don’t know what RSS or RSS reader is, then Click Here to know about it (Click Here for Arabic explanation of RSS).

4) I recommend Google Reader as an efficient, free, easy, and fast RSS reader. So when using Google Reader, you don’t have to follow the blogs you want. Rather, the blogs will follow you! Don’t be confused, it’s simple. You just sign up for google reader, and then add the blogs you like and you will magically receive the posts of the blogs you want at your google reader inbox. This should reduce the time you waste following the blogs you like; because whenever a blog is updated, you will receive the post directly at your Google Reader! Watch this video to know more about Google Reader.

5) Quality of blogs: Make sure you read useful blogs, and you are the only one who decides what kind of blogs you consider useful.

6) Reduce the number of posts you publish. You don’t have to post daily, It wastes your time!

7) Check your blog once or twice a day, to reply comments.

Thanks everybody for your contribution and advices, If anyone have any new ideas, please post them as comments here. I hope this was helpful.

PS: For bloggers who use Jeeran, please go to FeedBurner and sign up for feed there, It’s simple and very fast. The RSS feeds of “some” of the Jeeran blogs are not working (I don’t know why), so please register in FeedBurner so I can read your blogs by Google Reader.
Problem fixed

Miss “Annousheh Ansari”, who was born in Iran but later became a US citizen, is the fourth ever space tourist and the first female space tourist has landed to Earth today.

The capsule carrying Anousheh Ansari as well as crew members from the US and Russia touched down in Kazakhstan early today.

In a statement from space tourism firm Space Adventures, Ms Ansrari was quoted as saying the $25 million trip had exceeded her expectations.

She said:

The experience was more than I had ever imagined. Seeing the Earth from space will be forever etched in my mind. (Hat tip: RTE News )

Space Blog inspires thousands:
The world’s first female space tourist says space smells like a “burned almond cookie”, praises the wonders of Velcro, and finds washing her hair in zero gravity hazardous. (Hat tip: SBS News )

Burned Almond Cookie ?? lol
Women!!!

I visited her blog, she wrote about her 10 days experience in space, and she was live blogging from the space! Click here to go to her blog.

So $25 million to visit the space ?? Hmm, I think I should start saving! *sigh*

+ Full Story in Arabic here

+ Full Story in English here

Interview of a “Top Blogger” Jeff Jarvis, says his opinion about the future of the media in the presence of YouTube, blogs, ..

Click Here Watch the interview!

Although im conservative about some of his opinions, he got a point, however.

I did some modifications to my blog lately, and I would like to tell you about them if you haven’t noticed yet.

1) I moved my Arabic blog from Jeeran to Blogger, because I wanted to use the same theme im using here and Im not familiar with Jeeran yet, so this is my arabic blog:

http://7afartal.blogspot.com

I put an image banner on the right-side bar so you can check it easily:

2) On the right-side bar also, I added new section called “Abed Picks“, without going into unnecessary details, these picks are links for articles in blogs or news or magazines that I found interesting, and they change dynamically, so you can check them from time to time, I always add new links I think they worth reading.

3) This is not a new change, but I want to tell you about the “Subscribe by e-mail”, It’s also on the right-side bar. So if you are too lazy to check my blog (and you like it), then you can receive what I write via email! Just subscribe, and my blogs will be delivered to your email.

So let’s be honest, how many hours do you spend browsing here and there through blogs?? looking for something interesting, commenting on one blog, or even fighting with stupid bloggers. I, of course, am enjoying blogging. But seriously, this consumes long time! I tried to manage it, but I couldn’t. I succeeded to reduce the number of published posts per month and that really helped, but I couldn’t handle the time spent reading other blogs, I really couldn’t resist the temptaion to do so!

So is it addiction ?? or It’s just a temporary passion ? I once tried to monitor the time I spent writing one post, and reading the blogs on my blogroll, and It took exactly 2 hrs ! and this is a considerable amout of time, at least for me!

Im an addict! not to blogging, but to anything! seriously I am! It’s so easy for me to addict to “anything” , that’s why I avoid trying anything that some peoeple might addict to, because I know myself lol!

This is an interesting/funny blog that discusses the “blogging addiction” ! I don’t think I’ve reached the addiction level, but take a look at it, it’s worth it.

hmm, so do you have any suggestions to manage this ?? I really need your help! tell me what you think

I’ll be back soon, I have to spend some time with the family..so I’ll be away for the next few days…

Don’t miss me, I know you will ! ;D

What a piece of news !!!

The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has just started his own blog !!

The blog is avalialbe in four langauges : Arabic + Iranian + English + French.

Take a look at it !

http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/

His first post:
Ahmadinejad wrote about how Ayatollah Khomeini began to appeal to him when the ayatollah was in exile during the 1960s and 70s.

He wrote: “The more I became familiar with his thought and philosophy, the more affection I had for that divine leader and his separation and absence was intolerable for me.”

He also used his blog entry to criticise the United States and to reflect upon the 1980-88 war with Iraq, when he served in the elite Revolutionary Guard.

He called Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, the “aggressor” and wrote that international organisations tried to “distort and hide the facts that Saddam was the aggressor and that the arrogant powers had fully supported him”.

The blog was 2,000 words long in English and dated Friday. At the end of the blog, Ahmadinejad wrote: “From now onwards, I will try to make it shorter and simpler.”[ Source ]

This is an interesting article by Eric Kintz. He argues that blog post frequently is not a good blogging practice…and I totally agree with him. I think that blogging should be intented for fun and sharing thoughts, so it’s not a daily duty.

Eric Kintz says that The pressure around posting frequency will ultimately become a significant barrier to the maturity of blogging. Here are 10 reasons why.

#1- Traffic is generated by participating in the community; not daily posting – The blogosphere doubles in size every 6 months and cutting through the clutter will become ever more difficult with a new blog emerging every second. Daily posting deals with the clutter by adding more clutter.

Although this strategy made sense 12 months ago and still makes sense for the top bloggers, its effectiveness diminishes with every new blog created. Traffic is generated by successful bloggers linking to you either in their posts or in their blogroll. Mack at Viral Garden has a series of great posts on the importance of joining the community.

#2 – Traffic is irrelevant to your blog’s success anyway– Unless you specifically target bloggers like Bruce, are a blogging consultant or blog about your latest book, traffic is irrelevant to you. What matters most is whether you are reaching your target audience (which may be narrow and focused), not necessarily how many people read your posts. Engaging with the audience you want to have a relationship with is a much smarter strategy than posting frequently

#3- Loyal readers coming back daily to check your posts is so Web 1.0 – As the blogosphere matures, the number of new readers and bloggers will decrease and loyal readers are going to matter more. I have heard many bloggers tell me that they will lose reader loyalty if these readers come back daily and do not see any new posts. This perception is still very strong although irrelevant. Loyal readers subscribe to your blog via RSS feeds and have new content pushed to them. They will remain loyal because they have subscribed, not because you post frequently.

#4 - Frequent posting is actually starting to have a negative impact on loyalty: Seth Godin (a frequent blogger) has a very interesting theory. According to him, RSS fatigue is already setting in. With too many posts, you run the risk of losing loyal readers, overwhelmed by the clutter you generate. Readers will start to tune off if your blog takes up too much of their time

#5: Frequent posting keeps key senior executives and thought leaders out of the blogosphere – My colleagues and industry peers cite bandwidth constraints as the number one reason for not blogging. They are absolutely right: frequent posting is not very compatible with a high pressure job. As an example, not one single blog is authored by a senior corporate marketing blogger in the top 25 marketing blogs listed by Mack. Not only does the blogosphere lose valuable thought leadership, it runs the risk of being overlooked by these very same marketers.

A recent study by Forrester found a reluctance among marketers to shift from more tried-and-true online channels like search and e-mail marketing. Just 13 percent reported using blogs or social networks in marketing, and 49 percent said they had no plans to do so in the next year. If the blogosphere wants to become more mainstream (vs. being the latest hype), frequent posting and required bandwidth are undoubtedly a major barrier to adoption.

#6: Frequent posting drives poor content quality – The pressure of daily posting drives many bloggers to re-purpose other bloggers’ content or give quick un-insightful comments on the news. Few bloggers have enough time (or expertise) to write daily thought leadership pieces, thus adding to the clutter. Ben at the Church of the Customer Blog explores the 1% rule and cites the Wikipedia example: 25 million readers visit Wikipedia every month, but the number of people who actually contribute content to Wikipedia is about 1-2 percent of total site visitors. I would argue that the same is valid for the blogosphere as a whole where most of the original high value content is driven by 1% of the bloggers. Some of the most insightful –and most quoted- marketing thought blogging leaders are actually infrequent posters, from Sam Decker to Charlene Li or Randi Baseler.

#7: Frequent posting threatens the credibility of the blogosphere – as many bloggers re-purpose existing content under the pressure of daily posting, they do not take the time to do any sort of due diligence and conduct effective research. Errors snowball in the blogosphere as they spread from one blogger to the other. The collective wisdom of user generated content was supposed to provide an alternative to biased traditional media content – it is instead echoing the thoughts and biases of a few.

#8 - Frequent posting will push corporate bloggers into the hands of PR agencies – As they struggle with bandwidth constraints as well as peer pressure to join the blogosphere, more and more companies will resort to partnering with their PR agencies to create blogs. The blogosphere will in turn lose some of its effectiveness and value.

#9 - Frequent posting creates the equivalent of a blogging landfill – According to Technorati, only 55% of bloggers post after 3 months of existence. The pressure of the first months to write frequently certainly contributes to people abandoning their blogs. Is that in the blogosphere’s best interest to have a third of its participants frustrated by their initial efforts?

#10 - I love my family too much - Ann pointed out to me this cool blog that highlights the challenges of blogging addiction – Bloggers Anonymous. Very funny…..

[ Link ]

I know Im not blogging regularly now, I don’t know why! I still spend considerable amount of time online, but Im not even reading any blog! I just read/reply comments on my blog via email!

I really don’t know what’s wrong! and I would like to apologize to all my friends that I used to read and comment on their blogs regularly!

Maybe Im just bored from blogging or blogs, or maybe Im just under pressure! you know, I got home everyday by 6:00 PM, and I just come back exhausted, and I don’t do anything useful when Im tired. I don’t study, I don’t go out, I don’t sleep !

I used to sleep everyday after lunch! yes, I eat and sleep! for at least 3 hrs afternoon, now I don’t. Maybe this change is the reason Im not blogging, or Maybe It’s the pressure again!

I know I’m writing too personal posts, Im doing this on purpose. I started this blog to make it personal as much as possible, I really don’t know why I stuck my nose into too many issues. I really like reading personal blogs, I think personal blogs are the best blogs to read. I don’t want to read about the news, or about sport or anything. I just like to read about others’ daily lives, this is interesting to me! and that’s what dragged me to this blogging thing.

Imagine that one day you read your deepest secret written on a Postcard, even worse, it’s published online where MILLIONS have already read it.

Well, It’s not as bad as it seems! among one of the weirdest and best websites I found is Postsecret.

This website is about people sending their deepest secrets on postcards and mail them to a guy called Frank who publish them every Sunday, so every Sunday you will find new weird secrets published on Postcards. You will find secrets without names. The name of the writer of the secret is excluded.

Honestly speaking, I found out that many people are hiding the same secrets I hide! It’s been six months since my first visit to this website, but ever since, I kept on reading it every Sunday, and I found some unbelievable secrets. Now they published a book about the secrets. It’s availabe on amazon. Click Here to purchase.

People usually don’t tell me their secrets because I can’t keep my mouth shut! That’s one reason why I adore this site!

The bad thing is, you will not find any of the old secrets published, this website is updated weekly, and you can only read secrets of the week. If you want to read the previous secrets, you should purchase the book.

Click Here to watch a video report about this weird website.
Click Here to go to the website

I think this is an exaggeration!

By using this icon on my website I am stating…

1. That I am opposed to the use of corporate advertising on blogs.

2. That I feel the use of corporate advertising on blogs devalues the medium.

3. That I do not accept money in return for advertising space on my blog.

signed,

the author

devalues the medium ? No It’s not, you can put the ads in an elegant way, and your blog will still look good! I has nothing to do with the contents of you blog!

I don’t accept money for advertising, I just put these links for those who might be interested in these links! so Im just offering help! why not accepting money ? heh ?

Can anybody give a clue about this MySpace thingy? I received many invitations to join it! It seems to be another lame matchmaking. Anyway, I finally signed up to test it, I know I will cancel it soon, just gimme a few weeks!

But on the other hand, I’ve noticed a wide variety of features on MySpace, It gives you a blog, music casting, and many other features, plus it’s the largest network online! weired , ain’t it?!

Click Here to view my profile!

I know you’ve noticed(Unless you’re blind) that I’m using Google Ads (Under Sponsored Links on the side bar)! If you still don’t know how these Ads work, then let me explain

These Ads are called context Ads. That is, Google places Ads that are relevant to the contents of your website. So how do these Ads work ??

Each time anyone clicks on these Ads, Google pays me money the amount of money per click depends on the link it selfs, I think It varies from $0.001 to $1 (this is the range I got). And each time anybody clicks on the Ads, the owner of the link should pay Google money. So Google wins! There are, of course, fraudal clicks made, and many complaints regarding these fraudal clicks.

According to the famous business rule “If you can’t beat ‘em, copy ‘em”, Yahoo has developed their own copy of these Ads (Yahoo Ads), also suffered from fraudal clicks! but, however, Google Ads still dominating the web, because they were the first who came up with the idea.

Today, e-Bay has a new idea. The same “Context Ads”, but this time, e-Bay will pay you money if and only if an action is taken (like purchasing), and this should be the solution to the fraudal clicks. Click Here or Click Here to read about e-Bay’s new Ads system.

Yes I made money out of Google Ads

I know I’m supposed to start working on graduation project (more to be written about it soon), I’m facing a delimma that SaudiJeans talked about it! Yes, I dunno why I tend to waste my time doing something else when I have an important taks to accomplish! I started this blog last december when I was supposed to be preparing for the final exams! I kept on playing with the previous template of this blog last month when I had final exams!

Anyway, I added two new pages to the side bar, please click on the “About”, “Movies” and “Contact”. I wrote something about myself!. The “Photos” page will redirect you to my Flickr Account.

I got great responses regarding the new look of the blog, but I would like to get more feedback!

Hey ! no, you’re not wrong ! It’s me Abed, but with new look! lol

so do you like it ???

I got the template from Blogger Templates