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	<description>Ahmad Humeid on branding, design, architecture, media and technology, from a confused Arabia</description>
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		<title>my new year&#8217;s book buying binge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Prime Books at Baraka Mall is doing a clearance sale. I was lured into the store by a &#8220;50% off&#8221; sign. I walked out with so many books, a shop assistant had to actually help carry them to the car. Most of these books will end on the shelves of company&#8217;s library. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s design mess: Android&#8217;s Ice Cream Sandwich adds to the problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That lock screen looks promising, doesn&#8217;t it. That&#8217;s how Google&#8217;s newest version of Android looks. It is a major release of Android, and one of its major features was to supposedly make its design &#8220;lovable&#8221;. As Android&#8217;s design chief Matias Duarte himself said: people sort of respected Android, but no one loved it. Its latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrade your European Nexus S i9023 to Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.03</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy to report that I have just successfully upgraded my European GSM Nexus S (i9023) to Android 4.03 Ice Cream Sandwich, manually. I didn&#8217;t want to wait for the Other The Air (OTA) update to be rolled out in my territory (Jordan). I was a little reluctant to use the instructions on Android Central because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talent of community: sketch-a-talk videos animate Arab Spring themes on Ikbis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you interview a diverse bunch of Arab activists and new media geeks one Skype, edit all of it dow to a few minutes, get an amazingly talented cartoonist, mix in a video camera and some video and sound editing dudes? Ikbis has been experimenting with &#8220;community produced videos&#8221;. By pulling in different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nokia N9: a phone for real rebels (and normal people too)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nokia N9 has a strange story. It&#8217;s an exciting story. It&#8217;s a sad story. It&#8217;s an amazing story that is still unfolding. But if you walk today into any of the shops of Amman&#8217;s &#8220;mobile phone district&#8221; near the 7th Circle, you might not even feel that there is a whole saga around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taj Mall opens: the (still dusty) crown of Jordan&#8217;s shopping?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160; The opening of a major mall in Jordan in this post-financial-crisis era is certainly an event to watch. We live in very different times compared to, say, 2005, when we were awash in Gulf money and grand real estate dreams. Can developers and retailers pull off another mall in a market were people are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Ecto</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just downloaded Ecto 3, the latest version of my favorite blogging application. Let&#8217;s see if it works.]]></description>
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		<title>Shopkeepers from hell: How Amman takes out the fun from shopping (and what this says about us)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shopping in Amman often can be an unhappy experience. In many shopping situations, one has to deal with one of the following traits (or a combination of them): unfriendliness, ignorance, rip-off, lack of empowerment, arrogance and sheer stupidity. Take, for example, the latest shopping incident my wife had to endure. Around a week ago she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A universal logo for human rights: vote for your favorite now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I was appointed as a jury member of an amazing global design competition. The aim: to create a universally accepted logo for human rights. Peace has its symbol. Religions have their symbols. Global non profits and corporations also have their all-present symbols. But universal human rights, which have become part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t install Mac OS X Lion, because of &#8220;no Recovery HD&#8221; problem? This might work</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1278</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing this blog post just to find some meaning in the agony of three frustrating nights trying to install Mac OS X Lion on my kids&#8217; Mac Mini. The Mac Mini (running Snow Leopard, updated) has a Bootcamp partition on which we have Windows XP installed. This seems to be the source of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A nuclear Jordan? From outdated logic to inspiring possibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will freely admit that I am an opponent of nuclear energy. For me this is a moral stance. But I know full well that the issue of nuclear energy can also be discussed on other levels, not just from a moral point of view. I am also not an energy expert. But there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seriously GAM.. What on earth is going in King Faisal Street?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does a promising urban rehabilitation project like the one GAM is doing come with so much agony, dirt, carelessness. This fiasco has been going on for too long. Every reasonable person knows that a major rehabilitation of a street will result in disruptions. But the way the construction work in Faisal Street has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Jihadist&#8221; violence. Fascist violence. No difference.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jordanian state, media and large part of public opinion are loudly condemning the violence that happened in Zarqa last Friday. Of course, many people are extra nervous because the people who demonstrated in Zarqa belong to an ultra-fundamentalist group. Some call them Salafists. Some call them Takfirists or Jihadists. Whatever. These are scary guys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who will be Jordan&#8217;s entrepreneur of the year?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get contacted by PR agencies quite often to plug product launches and stuff like that for 360east, and I usually decline, unless its something that really interests me. So here is one of those We&#8217;ve all been engulfed in the news of political change that is sweeping the region this year. But you know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19 things we have gained/learned already in the struggle for reform in Jordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Jordanians have been forced to be interested in politics and public affairs. It&#8217;s Politics 101 for many young Jordanians. (Question from a young colleague at the office: &#8220;Ahmad.. What is a &#8216;Leftist&#8217; party?&#8221;) 2. Students, workers and other groups suddenly have a voice after years and years of not being heard. Political organizations reflecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jordan&#8217;s choice: democracy &amp; unity, vs. fascist thuggery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two photos from the last 2 days in Jordan. You choose what Jordan you want to live in.. The youth of the March 24 movement. (via 7iber) The so-called &#8220;loyalists&#8221; with knifes. Am I over-simplifying here? Aren&#8217;t there a million shades of grey between these two pictures? At a very basic level, the choice is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s Revolution. My Revolution.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been glued to Twitter for the past 16 days. Too many thought racing through my head to think clearly. A total emotional roller-coaster. My generation&#8217;s first revolution! All that I can think of right now is that everything in this region, in our lives, need to be rethought. I am part of the 1989 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iOS vs Android: does &#8220;open&#8221; really always win?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s Android seems unstoppable. The Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas over the past few days, has seen the launch and announcement of an huge number of gadgets running Android, including so-called iPad killers like the Motorola XOOM, which be running Android&#8217;s next big version, Honeycomb. Google is switching on 300,000 new Android devices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can 1 million Jordanians stand up for dignity, solidarity and societal peace?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am no politician and neither do I have an ambition to become one. But I am becoming, despite my optimistic nature, a politically worried Jordanian citizen. Almost everyday there is news in Jordan about this tribe bashing that tribe, about fights between students in universities, about security forces having to intervene in this city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why think of a graduation project when you can buy one?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a real ad and a real page from Facebook, blatantly advertising &#8220;graduation project&#8221; ideas in the fields of electronics and communications engineering. It&#8217;s apparently a business in Irbid, which makes sense given its close the the Jordan University of Science and Technology. &#8220;We spare you the effort of your graduation project,&#8221; says the [...]]]></description>
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