Moroccan Elections 2009: Who steals the show?

After the victory of the makhzeno-khobzism back in 2007, Morocco is approaching yet another election date in June 09.

Besides the official elections site updated by the Ministry of interior to locate election offices on a map (certainly NOT the censored google maps!) there is no big buzz about this event online. I have tried some key words (in French or English) to google it but the results turned poor. There even seems to be a few bloggers subscribed to blogma aggrgator who are intersted by this event. The reason for this might be that more people are attracted to social networks these days like Fecebook to express themelves or simply that some people are stealing the show !!

Well let me allow a pragraph to those people who steal the show. You can all remmber the new face that emerged in the Moroccan political scene who had resigned in August to take part in the following September elections.  Si Fouad has created an association, then a party that has grown so strong to the point it s defying other ministries and shaking the government’s stability in case they try to apply the law against the new recruits. There isn’t a single day that I don’t read his name on the paper or see his face on the news.  The secons “show stealer” is si Chabat who is criticising not only living people but also the dead! 

All for Chabat and Chabat against all

 Source:  http://difad.wordpress.com

 Will the show stealers succeed in the elections? let’s wait and see!

A free online training for teachers of English

Cardiff Online 09

For over 75 years IATEFL have been organising annual conferences in different countries for teachers of English around the world.  The two past years  the conference workshops and seminars were made available online for people who cannot attend the conference in person. I could virtually take part in both conferences organised in Aberdeen 07 and Exeter 08. The original links are by now dead but the people out there could make a nice compilation of the featured workshops and talks of the conferences  and put it for reference here.

This year the conference is organised in Cardiff on a different platform (earlier sessions were hosted on Moodle). The online Cardiff website address will be very soon announced on the official IATEFL blog promising an enhanced experience and a coverage of 40 sessions.

I will keep you posted.

Valentine hurts, sometimes kills

It’s always time to talk about love even when it is not the 14th Feb !

10 things I hate about MySapce

Some days ago Radawn left a comment on my post “Are you a Facebooker?“. In response let me make a short-list of the things I hate about MySpace:

1. My first 10 friends were girls with a sexy picture and a link to an adult website!
2. Design: I love to have a customisable page with the colours I like but MySapce design harms my eyes. It’s the world’s worst designed website.
3. The name: The website name reminds me of the days I wanted to create my own website back in the late 90’s, and that makes me feel old
4. The people there are not active: out of some 50 invites, no one replied to my friendship request!
5. No twitter-like feeds on MySpace while they promote stupid widgets like instant music players
6. I’m obliged to befriend a certain Tom Anderson to help me out!
7. Security issues: there’s a message on the homepage that may make anyone think twice before signing up:
   

   Always make sure you’re visiting the real myspace.com

8. Too much ad on my personal page
9. Pages get Exhaustingly long to browse
10. Why choose Myspace (591M hits on google) while there’s a much better one called Facebook (780M hits)!

There are more reasons that made me run away from that space, but I hink I should stop here.

Any comments on the points above? Do you have a favourite social website that beats MySpace? Do you manage to get qualitatively selected aquaintance?

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