بقلم: عيسى محاسنة
مدير منظمة المشاع المبدع Creative Commons يحاضر في الأردن حول وسائل تتيح حريات أكثر للمؤلفين والعلماء والفنانين عند تسجيل أعمالهم الإبداعية.

إذا أردت أن توزع كتاباً أو تستخدم صورة أو تنزل أغنية من الإنترنت فإنك غالباً ما تصطدم بقوانين الملكية الفكرية. يمكنك أن تتعدى على القانون وتنسخ هذه المواد على جهاز الحاسوب لديك، إلا [...]

Editing of the film
Written By: Susan Miller-Coulter
Cast of characters:  Fourteen young ladies, two mini-video cameras, two teachers, a film-maker, and a volunteer climbed into a commuter bus on a blazingly hot morning.
Checklist: Release forms for interviewing “people on the street,” spare tapes for the mini-cams, permission from police for filming in public locations, and water; [...]

Have your work published on 7iber.com!

7iber.com Presents:
Rough Draft: a citizen media workshop
Learn what it takes to be a citizen journalist
Save the Date 2nd Aug.
Location: Wild Jordan

Register today!

Written By Lina Ejeilat

It was one year ago, on Jordan’s Independence Day, that we officially launched 7iber dot Com. Many a time in the past year, we stopped to look at what it is we were trying to do and how well ideas were translated into actions and results. That’s an ongoing process. But given [...]

The Goethe-Institute Jordan invites young journalists from Mediterranean and EU member states to participate in the first Euro-Mediterranean Academy for young Journalists in Amman from May 4th 2008 to May 15th 2008. The Euro-Mediterranean Academy for young Journalists aims at raising the knowledge of young journalists about the importance of a responsible and critical international [...]

Written By Ahmad Humeid from 360east.com
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a partner in TootCorp, creator of ikbis.com.
Before we start talking about the “failure” of Arab web 2.0, let us first admit that the Arab world is still stuck in web 0.5 and has not even reached web 1.0. By global standards, web 1.0 encompasses things like [...]

No Longer a Novelty: Blogging and Politics in Jordan

Written by Sam Bollier
[Editor's note: This article is the first in a two part series on blogging and politics in Jordan and the wider Arab World. The series is a condensed version that can be viewed in its entirety at: http://saminamman.blogspot.com ]
How much influence do Jordanian blogs [...]

Ahmad Humeid first published this press release on his blog about AmmanNet being refused a permit to open a new community radio station in Zarqa. While details seem sketchy as to why the permit was rejected, we join Daoud Kuttab’s call for the new governmental cabinet to reverse this rejection of a community-based media outlet [...]

Al-Syjjyl is a new Jordanians Arabic-language weekly newspaper. In its first issue, on Thursday 8th of November, 7iber was mentioned. Click image to enlarge and read in Arabic.
Translated text:
A group of Dot Com youth is seeking to overcome the invisible censorship barriers by publishing articles covering local news on 7iber.com, a website that was [...]

Written By: Naseem Tarawnah
Parliamentary elections are officially up and running now. The first two days of candidate registration saw 916 names and as Lina points out, 15.8% of which are women. That’s a pretty decent percentage in my case, considering that the majority of that number are from fairly conservative cities like Irbid and Kerak. [...]

By: Lina Ejeilat 
ATV Managing Director Mohannad Al-Khatib resigned from his position yesterday, and Ammon News reported that the channel’s owner and Chairman Mohammad Alayyan sold his shares to “Wonders Investment Company”, which is owned by Jordanians Mohammad Khaled Asfour and Mohammad Saleh Abdel-Ati.
7iber.com got a copy of Al-Khatib’s letter to ATV employees explaining his resignation. [...]

It’s September. The weather is still wonderfully warm, while the cool air moves swiftly between trees that are preparing to shed their leaves. Ramadan is just around the corner and there’s a lot to talk about on the Jordanian blogosphere. However, it’s only right to start with the biggest story; the one that has dominated [...]

On July 31st, 2007, after nearly two and a half years of preparations, ATV’s management held a press conference to announce its long-awaited official launch on the next day. During the press conference, the transmission on Nile Sat was suddenly halted by the Audio Visual Commission (AVC), who sent ATV an official letter that afternoon [...]