<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress/2.0.3" -->
<rss version="2.0" 
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>360east | design, media, technology</title>
	<link>http://www.360east.com</link>
	<description>Ahmad Humeid on branding, design, architecture, media and technology, from a confused Arabia</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3</generator>
	<language>en</language>
			<item>
		<title>Rescue downtown Amman from the &#8220;Bab Al-7ara&#8221; attack!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1241</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1241#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Branding</category>
	<category>Design</category>
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	King Faisal Square in 1958. From Getty Images: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3378711/Hulton-Archive
Does the Amman Municipality and do Ammanis want that Amman&#8217;s downtown is turned into a a cheap-looking touristic area? Because that&#8217;s EXACTLY what is happening at an alarming speed.

	I had breakfast at Hashem, the famous Hummous and Fuul restaurant yesterday and then went for a quick walk [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1241</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>This Tuesday: Come to Al-Balad Theater and meet the new (type)face of Amman</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1240</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1240#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Design</category>
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
	<category>Conferences</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	SYNTAX and Al-Balad Theater present:&#8220;The New (Type)face of Amman&#8221;German type-design rising star Yanone will be telling the story of his Amman typeface, created for the Amman Municipality&#8217;s &#8220;Amman Brand&#8221; project in collaboration with SYNTAX.The result of this project is now &#8220;FF Amman&#8221;, a professional typeface marketed worldwide by FontShop, as one of largest bilingual font [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1240</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Open City: Refuge urbanism in Amman, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1239</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1239#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>Conferences</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	
The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Jabal Luweibdeh will host the exhibition &#8220;Open City:  Refuge Urbanism&#8221;  which is part of the 4th International Architecture Biennale  Rotterdam 2009-10 (IABR), opening today Sunday 18 July 2010, at 6 pm.

	Refuge Urbanism (Part of the Diwan Collaborative Research Network, directed by Philipp Misselwitz &#38; [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1239</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Wamda, a hub for the region&#8217;s entrepreneurs and change-makers will go into private-beta soon</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1238</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1238#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Branding</category>
	<category>Design</category>
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	Nothing like being able to start showing people what I&#8217;ve been immersed in the past few months! It&#8217;s been a crazy journey for the team at SYNTAX and Spring and it will only get crazier.

	What was a sketchy idea a few months ago has turned into a full fledged project with a powerful vision: building [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1238</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Agave blooms after 18 years in Jordanian village</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1237</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1237#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Family stuff</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	In 1992, my mother planted a little Agave Americana in my parent&#8217;s farm in the Jordanian village Aluk, 25 km north of Amman. Over the years, this agave grew and grew to a degree where my parents started thinking of removing it. Agaves have very sharp spikes that can give you nasty pain and can [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1237</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Nokia X6 Comes with Music: All you can eat, but with a wooden spoon</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1236</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1236#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	It sounds like an offer no true music lover in Arabia can refuse: Buy a very capable touch screen smartphone from Nokia and get access to an all-you-can-eat music library of 4 million tracks for free for 12 months. And you get to keep the music you download for ever too.
That, in a nutshell, is [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1236</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Brands in translation: Are Arab consumers oversensitive wimps?</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1235</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1235#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Branding</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Can someone please explain this to me: brands and slogans that totally loose their edge when introduced into Arab markets.

	Here are three examples:

	

	I bought this shaving cream the other day. The tagline/product identifier say &#8220;Cool Kick&#8221; in English. The Arabic translates into &#8220;Cool Touch&#8221;. Oh how soft and nice!

	Arab men can&#8217;t take a kick.. They [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1235</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Meydan: Starting up startups requires no glamour, food or BS. Just passion, honesty</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1234</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1234#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 05:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Conferences</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Coffee, tea, orange juice, Apple juice and water. That was the only liquid fuel needed at yesterday&#8217;s Meydan launch at Amman&#8217;s Zara Expo yesterday. The energy of the event was provided by an enthusiastic crowd, fired on by non other than Jordan&#8217;s Chief Disruption Officer, Maher Kaddoura.

	The idea behind Meydan is to be a startup [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1234</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>TootCorp launches ZOOFS: what Twitter is watching</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1233</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1233#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 08:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1233</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	


	TootCorp, makers of Toot, Ikbis and Watwet, have launched their fourth product and the company&#8217;s first aimed at the global market. It&#8217;s called ZOOFS.
Here is what TootCorp cofounder Kareem Arafat had to say about it:

	Zoofs is a new way to discover YouTube videos that people are talking about on Twitter. Zoofs swallows millions of Tweets [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1233</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Rebooting Jordan: do we need a bigger kick in the butt than what happened in Salt?</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1232</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1232#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The incidents in Al-Salt are just the tip of the iceberg.

	Wherever we look in Jordan there are signs: rising family and tribal violence, apathy, lack of quality and a way of life divorced from our real means and natural and human resources.

	The decay is affecting much of our national life: from the disastrous state of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1232</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>6 interesting usages of Ikbis.com</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1231</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1231#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Filmmaking</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Over the past few years, Ikbis.com has grown in size and in depth. Ikbis Channels, in particular, have been multiplying in number and are being used by a wide variety of users and organizations: from people sharing a an interest to global broadcasting organizations reaching out to Arab audiences.

	Here are 6 examples of what I [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1231</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Teacher, artist and, yes, the Sheikh of Amman!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1230</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1230#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	


	When the self proclaimed &#8220;Sheikh of Amman&#8221; comes walking through the door at the SYNTAX offices, its not an ordinary day, especially when he comes unannounced.

	It&#8217;s now over 21 years that I&#8217;ve met Ali Maher for the first time, on my first day of being an Architecture student at the University in Jordan, sometime around [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1230</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Burning the spring: how Amman municipality workers tore out the grass and littered our street</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1228</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1228#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	I just want to follow up on my post from a few days ago, when I wrote about how Amman municipality workers tore out the grass near my place of work (for fire prevention reasons).

	Here is what happened afterwards. All the torn grass was piled on the sidewalk, where it has bee laying for the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1228</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>ArabNet, Beirut and &#8216;Being Arab&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1227</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1227#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
	<category>Book receommendations</category>
	<category>Conferences</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	Visiting Beirut is always a bitter sweet experience. My last trip to Beirut to attend ArabNet, the region&#8217;s first web business conference was my third trip to the city in 8 years, each of which had the duration of 48 hours. Each time I visit beirut I leave with a book, always from Librarie Antoine, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1227</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>What&#8217;s GAM&#8217;s problem with the spring?</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1226</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1226#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	We have been blessed with good rain in Amman this year. Spring is all around us. Amman&#8217;s empty plots of land (and there&#8217;s many of those) are full of green life. Flowers, grasses, butterflies and bees are creating little heavens where usually you see urban rubbish.

	The scene above is what I see everyday as I [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1226</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>ArabNet 2010, Day 1: the Arab web industry emerges</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1225</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1225#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
	<category>Conferences</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	
Photos stolen from Andfaraway  
With a ballroom full of participants during all sessions, buzzing networking activity during coffee breaks, inspiring talks from both older web hands and young ones, startup demos from all over the region, not to mention very active tweeting and live blogging, we can say that day 1 of the ArabNet [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1225</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>ArabNet: Ten years late, the Arab web industry gets its conference</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1224</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1224#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
	<category>Conferences</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	Here is one of my favorite anecdotes about the Arab web industry: the web advertising spending of the whole Arab region, including the rich Gulf region and Saudi Arabia is less than the revenue of a single niche web marketing agency (which you never heard of) in Seattle where one of my friends works. Now [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1224</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>On physical junk, mental junk and the joys spring cleaning</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1223</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1223#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	
We&#8217;re SYNTAX. And we create junk.

	Celebrating 12 years of junk production. And 10 years of accumulating it in one office.

	We&#8217;re spring cleaning. Read more in the SYNTAX:CONTEXT blog.
 ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1223</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>NewThink Theater: Infecting Jordan with the virus of positive action [with VIDEO]</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1222</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1222#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
	<category>Conferences</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	     


	Here&#8217;s something that keeps Jordan interesting: there is always someone or some group initiating something. Regional politics might be depressing. Local politics too. The economy is not doing great. There are setbacks, deterioration, and the &#8220;I don&#8217;t care&#8221; attitude all around us. But at the same time, someone is launching [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1222</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Counterparts - Ammani House 28 in transition</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1221</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1221#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	
Photo: Dina Haddadin


	House 28 on the corner of Rainbow Street is in a state of flux.

	The old landlady and her old, bed-ridden husband have passed away. It seems like yesterday she was showing Ahmad Sabbagh and me through the apartment under the main house. That apartment became what I called the &#8220;SYNTAX house&#8221;. A succession [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1221</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
