I've been thinking about my first blog post since two days, what the hell should it be about? I had many ideas, but i realized that the best thing to talk about as a first Article is the reason of creating this blog and what will it be about; So could know whether it interests you or not.
Well, I always wanted to discuss and share ideas with other people and I'm actually doing it through social networks such as Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and others. But the problem with these social networks is that the information that we write there is not easily found, easily linked to or searchable by other people, it remains in the website's servers but we can not benefit from it after some moments. Unlike blogs, who are generally 'public', 'searchable', 'relevant' and 'topics-oriented'. I’ve been inspired by Scott Hanselman’s blog post about blogging, he said: “Write a few blog posts a week, with useful content, consistently, for ten years. Then write some more”.
The other reason that motivates me to create this blog is my participation in two conferences last week about Arabic content on the internet, this first one was held in Laghouat on Dec 18th, the second one in Algiers on Dec 20th, both of them were celebrating the Arabic Web Days initiative. I talked during these two events about the State of the Arabic content on the WEB and i gave some solution to increase it, one of the solutions I gave was "Creating relevant blogs", I realized then that even me I do not have a blog, Shame on me you'd say !
To give you a quick view about what this blog is all about, mainly, I'm going to write about technical staff (informatics to be clear), an important part of them
will be in Arabic. Also, I will write about my personal projects like for example the story Halim and I are writing (في صحراء أُسياط). And of course I'll write
about our beloved group which is GDG Algiers (Google Developer Group Algiers) and its activities, highlighting the great experience we're having together.
I think this is enough for a first post, I hope this hasn't made you bored and thanks for your time, that's all. :)
Saturday, December 29, 2012
This blog, what and why?
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my friend, i'am very happy for you. i hope you enjoy with blogging..
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I am so happy that you created your blog Walid, me too I'll join you these days and I'll write too much about GDGAlgiers :)
ReplyDeleteGood luck Bro' , wish U all the best and a same path for us ! =)
ReplyDeleteThank you guys for you support.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Blogging is an efficient way to improve ourselves and share our stories.
Cheers,
first ... who said it's enough for a first post ? it's never enough, believe me, i wish you wrote like 100 pages so i keep enjoying it more,
ReplyDeletesecond, my friend you said: Write a few blog posts a week, i can't even see one in a month, shame on you ! :P
welcome aboard and happy blogging bro,
ps: you should allow commenting using Names and URLs ;)
it's way much better
Good luck with your blog. Maybe as you have a lot of technical experience you could help me understand what is happening with rolling out the internet services in Algeria. Since Oct 2012 we have not been able to get a phone line into our house because of problems with someone being able to make a decision on which department we should belong to and also not having enough phone lines to the area. There is no adequate internet service for an iPhone so I think that until someone in authority there starts taking the need for a decent internet rollout that can keep up the world seriously enough things aren't going to get anywhere in the near future. In the meantime my husband and I barely get a decent conversation on Skype or FaceTime and our kids are really missing out on serious time with Daddy while the phone bill is ludicrously high because our only choice is to ring a mobile. This could be something good to blog about in English to let people know what is happening with getting internet services in Algeria. I have heard 3G was supposed to be there in July last year. We all want to be together as a family but I won't do it without an internet service to keep me connected in the world its my only requirement as I too would like to blog on all the great and positive things in Algeria from a non Algerian perspective.
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