busses in trouble

Originally uploaded by humeid.

This has been going on for an hour now. Two busses are trying to pass through a street near our office. The street is narrow. There is debris on the sides. People park their cars in a haphazard manner.

The bus drivers have been honking for an hour, driving everyone crazy. [...]

I can tell you this podcasting thing isn’t easy. But I managed to put together episode 1 of MixUp Arabia. I got some encouraging comments and email from people who listened to my test episode of May 21. Keep the suggestions and comments coming.

If you like the show (or feel sorry for me [...]

I am just testing a link to my Flickr album.

I joined Flickr yesterday. It’s just great. I was reading an interesting Guardian interview with Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield and found the following interesting/amusing quote:

“We have quite a large proportion of the Japanese tech-geek community, and a lot of people in the United Arab Emirates taking pictures of their cars and Starbucks in Dubai. [...]

PUBLISHING | With photo sharing, blogging and podcasting, the self publishing revolution is starting in earnest, says Ahmad Humeid.

One of the biggest trends that we’ll be seeing unfold over the next few years is the self-publishing movement. Sure, the commercial internet has been around for a little over a decade and some people have been [...]

As I am preparing to take a flight to Aqaba in a few hours to attend a workshop on Aqaba’s Tourism marketing I thought that it’s appropriate to announce here that SYNTAX has succesfully delivered the Aqaba tourism brand. We worked with ASEZA to research Aqaba’s identity and reputation, create a new set of brand [...]

The mic is on, the intro music cued up, the recording light is on. “Transmitters? We don’t need no stincking transmitters!”

I am all set up for MixUp Arabia, my first podcast and (probably) the first ‘real’ podcast (as far as I know) from the Arab world .

At the end of March, I discovered [...]