To Arab Bloggers
I had a pretty amusing conversation on msn with Moey the graphics guru from Jordan, and he was telling me of all the problems and craziness the Arab blogsphere has been going through lately. I had no clue because I don’t care about the Arab blogsphere.
Here is the thing.
- I don’t read many Arabic blogs because only 4 or 5 are written well with original contents and truthfulness. I only read the top and most popular blogs on the internet. I learn from the best, and strive to be better than them. That’s how we excel in life. No?
- Arab bloggers contain them selves in a bubble and never open up as human beings to the world. I seldom ever see commentors on Arab blogs that are non-Arabs.
- Arab bloggers don’t share and comment on other non-Arab blogs. So their audience is contained to one focus group, and that focus group is narrow minded and all you see on their posts are fights and childish antics.
- I am one of the most hated Arab bloggers out there, and I am proud of it because I eliminated a lot of rubbish from my blog. I don’t gain or loose anything from one group of people.
- Don’t think I don’t know who comments or doesn’t comment on my site or even visits my site and from where. I got 4 stats monitors on my site, and one of those stat monitors can see the true IP address from behind proxy servers.
- For those who boost about their site statistics being in the thousands and even millions, well, you only fool the blind. There are two sites, technorati that measures blog statistics for popularity and reactions, and Alexa that measures world wide presence. You can fool your self, but not the bots that crawl your site and web stats monitors.
- If you are an honest Arab blogger and want to increase your blog presence, then look outside the norm. If you are a personal blogger then speak of personal matters that everyone can relate to or even learn from. That’s how you get your true audience.
That’s my speech for today and I demand a cup of Starbucks coffee tomorrow morning from each person whose Google Adsense revenue increased by 200% because they changed their writing attitude. Yes, I use sleazy money making advertising on my site because I need to pay the hosting bills for this site. This site is not free you know. It’s free for you to read, but not for me to keep up.
Damn, I am seriously craving Starbucks at 11:20pm at night. I should be damned to hell for being so shallow!
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thanks for clarifying what alexa is…and I’ always craving coffee!
Hehehe, geez! thanks Mona
Eih ya Mona?!?! It seems to me that you’re being rather judgemental here. People blog for all kinds of different reasons…it seems to me that one of the most important is that the majority of Arab bloggers live outside their country of origin and use blogging to keep in touch with home, in this sense it is quite important to deal with a focus group.
By all means, there are many irritating Arab bloggers but there are also irritating bloggers from many other different nationalities.
Other than that..thanks for the tips on Alexa and keep up the good work on this blog
I am not being judgmental. I am stating a fact about some Arab bloggers out there who really need help because they want to grow and become so popular, but they need to expand their audience and stop lying and causing silly fights.
No truer words spoken, Arab girl.
oh thank you!
I absolutely agree with your idea from point three. The fact that several bloggers don’t network with others in the blogosphere means they have no chance of getting their views across to different people and isn’t that what blogs are about?
I think few of your points are a bit harsh and understandable. About hosting you are right – it costs me $9.95/month to keep some of my projects (including friends) up, GoogleAds don’t pay much and it would be harder for blogger who just started to get in.
Salaam…
I admired this blog since I ‘transited’ a few times.. Just wish U Mona keep it up your good job. Being Open Minded is not wrong since We always remembering ourself who we are
Thank you wansalam!
Hi Mona!
I’m an arab blogger too and I do agree about some points, but it’s not good to always generalize as there are a lot of unknown successful arab bloggers and they play blogging by the rules.
By the way, can I please know about the service that reports the IPs of your visitors even if they were behind proxies?
I am not trying to generalize. This post was to specific people that know who they are and keep using proxy servers to view my blog. I use addfreestats.com stats monitor. It picks up proxy servers most of the time. Some time it misses them and uses the proxy IP with no host as the name. So you know it is a proxy because I tested it. Other times it picks up generic proxy sites that don’t work all the time.
Like I said, this post was not for the all Arabic bloggers out there. I know most don’t even read my blog. Just the angry hateful ones that keep trashing me on their blogs thinking I give a crap. lol Aah, funny. Really funny.
woah… noting your cravings for Starbucks, and subsequently your dream to own a private island, thgt this stumble might interest you:
http://www.alexshalman.com/blog/2008/03/18/experienced-wasters-100-ways-to-blow-your-debt-through-a-wall/
(especially # 1)
wow.. i’ve got lot to comment today…
since u mentioned that the blog entry was targeted to specific stalkers hiding behind the proxies… (sounds kinda like in a thriller!)… i just wanted to comment on behalf of those lost souls who’s got no anonymous lawyer defending their case (just to clarify – i am NOT one of them, nor am i an arab nor am i on those most wanted lists…cross my fingers and hope the sky won’t fall!)
…have you considered that people might have to come through proxies simply bcos their work place bans going on the net during 9-5 and put in a firewall and being those miserable “stalkers” that they are – just luvs ur blog so much that they are willing to sacrifice their jobs and piggy back on those “proxies” simply to read what u had for lunch today!
or maybe, just maybe as in UAE, Etisalat (the local telephone company) bans all social sites and those sites which do not agree with the political regime.. so (again read the last three and quarter sentences of the above paragraph)…
My Lord, i rest my case. Prosecution, any witnesses?
Hi Sajed,
I agree with you to some extent, however, there are some bloggers out there who use such sites like hidemyass.com or some other proxy server site to view some blogs in a hidden way so the blogger won’t know and comment in a very very negative way anonymously because they don’t want others to judge them or their blog. So they hide. That’s all I am pointing at. It is not those who can’t see it in their own country or work. Those have reasons, although if a work blocks it meaning that you SHOULD be WORKING!
…if we all worked when we were supposed to work.. who’d be reading your blog?
They can read it at home!
let me rephrase that.. if we all worked when we were supposed to work.. we’d have no homework! :lol:
(silly, i know.)