Hatem’s Diaries

With the return of Tn-blogs i find it not useful to run two similar websites, I just closed Dhifaf.net hope it was useful even for few days. Thank you all.

Well it’s not really a beta website as indicated it’s less than an alpha version, Dhifaf.net as many have noticed have been launched few days ago to aggregate the Tunisian blogosphere. Currently there is just a very basic aggregator updated automaticly every hour. Currently if you want to be added just drop me a message, there is no fees the service is Free ! Also just a note that this is not the real Dhifaf.net which was announced times ago. I have just set the aggregator there so I don’t put everything under phpmagazine.net which started to be overcrowded. The real Dhifaf.net is a mysterious project which will be launched one day, maybe the aggregator will be moved to something like tunisia.dhifaf.net to get a permanenent home.

If you have suggestion just drop me a message. And big thanks to Karim2k and Tom for collaboration and support to launch the website ! hope we could do better things together

Congratulations for the winners in this first Tunisian Blogging Awards, phpmagazine.net is offering small prizes for the Blog winner in this edition which is a free hosting + free domain name for one year. The winner for this edition is La Rebelle blog, and in addition we are offering an extra prize for the best generalist blog No Flying Monkeys Zone.

To get your prizes please send an email with your name, email, address (information required to register a new domain name) to info [at] phpmagazine.net, with the domain name you want to register. The registration will took about 24h before the domain become active, you’ll get additional details in your account confirmation email.

Congratulation for all who participated in this award, and keep blogging !

Je ne suis plus pro actions web “Tunisie xyz” mais “Tunisie Blog Awards” étais a mon avis un évenement tres intéressant pour la blogosphere Tunisienne pour mettre en valeur certains blogs qui ont heureusement existaient et offert du bon contenu indépendamment des sujets et des idiologies qui ont étaient developpés.

Depuis quelques temps j’ai vu presque de toutes les couleurs sur la blogosphere religion, histoire, actualités, technologie, personnel, etudes, poésie … y’en a des trucs intéressant a lire, des trucs trop con mais bref en gros y’avais eu “quelque chose” ! On en parles ici et la, la blogosphere tunisienne “existe” !!
Continue reading Tunisie Blog Awards 2005, Avant et Après

Tim Berners-Lee is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Senior Researcher at MIT’s CSAIL, and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS. Maybe the name isn’t very familiar for some of you, but you should be familiar with the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the organization behind allmost all web standards such HTML, XML, CSS …

In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute. The first browser was actually a browser/editor, which allowed one to edit any page, and save it back to the web if one had access rights.

Continue reading Who can start his first blog and get 380+ comments on the first post ?

PHPMagazine.net is proud to announce sponsoring for 5 bloggers. We are looking for technical bloggers to support them, blogging mainly about technology, programming and so on (no personal blogs)… We offer for one year free hosting and free domain name, you may find more details at the Blog’s Blog.

The conditions are not difficult to fit, you should be already blogging and have your blog at a free service such blogger, multiply, … etc. We are open to any technology or IT related blogging topic.

Languages accepted are english, french and arabic ! submissions should be for one language only ! And since when FREE is too much ? so take this chance, we are offering five (5) free accounts. Last delay to accept submissions is the December 20, 2005.

I’ll be off for the next week, I mean this week and since today. I’ll left some articles and posts for the next week in almost all my blogs cause finally I won’t even moblog. I left also in the last posts of this blog a pict of my head, so you can read directly what I’m going to post hehe no kidding.

This month on phpmagazine.net many news and articles as usual, but here is a selection of the top news :

• MySpace Worm, and then ? at the AJAX Magazine
• Accessibility and design of AJAX applications at the AJAX Magazine
• In the Blog’s Blog, you can read about AdSense placement in source code
• And testing Flock, the social browser, I have also left also some good firefox extensions to extend Flock
• Interested by blog branding ? here is an article to get your blog toolbar.
• To enhance your browsing experience Firefox Magazine choosed some good extensions like to Bypass web registration with BugMeNot and Firefox
• Also you can Disable Targets For Downloads
• And Minimize firefox to tray
• Last but not least did you know about the latest google service ? Google Base ! A google database in which you can add directly searchable data.
• And the funniest news was Mr GOOGLE KAI, it is not a new google service but a the name of the Son of google fan. Amazing if he’ll call his next son Yahoo, and he’ll have internet at home for free ! That’s the googling Blog

You may notice that this month posting slowed down, it was not problem of time but it was more a lack of ideas. Anyway this month i’ll be more than busy, specially by the end, but i’ll moblog when i’ll find time cause most of the time i’ll be off my pc.

That’s why i have enabled moblogging on phpmagazine.net via atom. And now i’m using lifeblog and a nokia 6630.

This month on phpmagazine.net a new firefox magazine was born, we have exceeded disk space, bandwidth and 1000 visitors daily. A great progress in my opinion, and that’s not all, there is more coming soon. Stay tuned

In the effort to fight spam it is possible today to define clearly what is a Splog ( Spam + Blog ), personaly I define it as blog that are created by automated process for commercial purpose in first place and annoying the web in second place, but the problem faced today that to offer a good service we need a good definition of “normal blog”.

A definition which doesn’t include spammers. I have started with this : a Blog have unique and original content. What else ?

Your help is needed !! I would like to call all the blogosphere to participate if possible. If you want to learn about AntiSplog service currently established you can read posts and articles on the AntiSplog blog.

Continue reading Call to bloggers to participate in fighting spam

You know that everybody have brilliant ideas, but not all of them are successful for the simple reason that ideas are just a multiplier of execution. Derek Sivers gives a good formula that explain it :


AWFUL IDEA = -1
WEAK IDEA = 1
SO-SO IDEA = 5
GOOD IDEA = 10
GREAT IDEA = 15
BRILLIANT IDEA = 20

NO EXECUTION = $1
WEAK EXECUTION = $1000
SO-SO- EXECUTION = $10,000
GOOD EXECUTION = $100,000
GREAT EXECUTION = $1,000,000
BRILLIANT EXECUTION = $10,000,000


I totally agree, Ideas without execution are waist of time, but good execution with even with a weak idea work. That’s what make successful business. Any idea ??