Marouen Bloggin' his Life

As usual, after enjoying another very nice bloggers meetup organized this time by our friend Karim2k in his native region Zaghouan, and after reading all the others nice reports, I prefer talking about the points they missed.

I said already it was a nice trip. Another one proving to us that we know almost nothing about our beautiful home land. But what Karim missed is to show us the city. I like walking on the main street and see local people, buildings, cars, to hear voices, to guess accents, to eat local food, to have a tea on a typical café. No, I'm not a tourist, but, as Karim will confirm, I like to see my country as it is in reality, not as it want to be shown. And honestly, I prefer meetups like that in real areas rather spaces like Biwa.

I don't want to finish this post before saying that I had a very funny discussions with many bloggers during the trip and I'm very proud to be a members in this community and I hope that we will be more and more active and try to make a difference.

PS: I promised during this meetup to help bloggers to be informed about future meetups. But really we have to write down some rules to avoid troubles and collisions such as what happened recently.

PS: thank you Tom for the picture

It seems that the famous search engine Google is using a new technology very close to the human's sixth sense to guess what internet users are really needing and show them the results as a sponsored link. I discovered that while trying to know if Typo3 (a content mangement system) supports the arabic language or not, google gave me this result on the right side in my mother tongue (click on the picture):

Translation : The right girl ? look for free for a wife.

Yesterday, I was invited to the 12th bloggers meetup organised by our new friend skydancer. It's true that every meetup we confirm that it's hard to make better and the next one we fing that's not right. After 11 successful meetups (I attended 8), it's the first time we have about 35 bloggers thanks to the great advertising job (also called spamming sometimes) done by the organizer who had also the idea of celebrating of the 1st birthday of our meetups by offering us a big cake (and paying my drink too ... nice no ?).

I'm not going to do like him and comment everyone but I was very happy because I discovered many interesting new bloggers, some are just new to the meetups and some are new to blogging phenomenon but all of them are sharing the same pride of being infected by this virus

One of the issues we had during the past meetups is the fact of discovering often a gap between the « veterans » (bloggers attending often the meetups) and the newbies. This time, after trying as usual to make a formal « who is who », infinity came and the meeting became a mess but it was a good mess because, following the example of Adib who was jumping from a seat to another, a new anarchy started again and opened the way for P2P (peer to peer) discussions. And that's how I enjoyed the talks with many interesting persons who were so kind to tell me in few minutes what they are doing in life, why and how they are blogging, and very quickly we became friends (being my friend in the blogosphere means adding his RSS feed to my reader)

Thank you all and as Subzeroblue said : can't wait to meet you next time ..... maybe next sunday ?