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 Photo by FotoRita No offense to the veggies either. I had the most disturbing conversation with my friend. She was telling me that our third friend had just gone back to work after her three months maternity leave ended and was finding work really hard and quite stressful to be back. Personally I think she’s a hero and imagine how heartbreaking it must be to leave your three month old to go back to work. The disturbing part was what my friend said her exact words were “Think about it, you’re a mother, a house wife, and your husband is 70% not home you might turn crazy in a while,in this case you don’t have anything to improve/develop thinking and knowledge in life.”
I am a little crazy, I am a mother, I am a housewife (well not the best but I am OK) but I get to improve and develop my knowledge each and every day. I resent the implication that if a woman does not go out and work that makes her less of a woman. At the same time I also hate the implication that a mother who chooses to go back to work makes her less of a mother. The stay at home mom vs the working mom is an age old argument and each side thinks that their position is better than the other.
Everyone lives a different life, everyone is entitled to their choices and those choices should be respected. I probably took the discussion to personally, but what in life isn’t personal. Before you blurt out something judgmental think for a moment, if you were in that persons shoes what would you do, why do you think that person made that choice? Sometimes we don’t always have the luxury of doing what makes us happiest or the best or optimum solution but that does not make us bad people.
Walk a mile in my shoes and your feet will hurt.
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Being the geek that I am, I was looking for El 3ashera Masa2an website in search of more information on something I had seen. A powerful TV show like that should have a website right? Apparently the big folks at Dream don’t think so. I am not sure why? Actually I am not sure if their site even qualifies as a decent site. Starting with their flash intro which reminds me of the pre-Web 2.0 era, the ugly blues and the horrible music and moving onto the dancing girl screen-shots that fly all over the intro. First a countdown sequence with beep beep beep, like it is going to blow up now, then woman’s scary voice greets you with “Welcome to Dream TV”. And then lots of lovely flashes from video clips, they are of course all of women scantily clad and dancing.
I don’t get it, Dream has a lot of interesting and serious shows but they choose to portray themselves as a musical channel in their intro? Elmohem; I am still looking so I decide to ignore the intro. The site itself is ugly, has horrible navigation and just feels so wrong. I click on the link for the show and find a two liner that describes the show, a link to Mona El-Shazly’s profile that has nothing but her name and a picture.
A complete television magazine starts at 10 o’clock with the days great event and each day a new issues is discussed relaying on the real shots when possible Broadcasted from Saturday to Wednesday at 10:00PM CLT
Ok all geekiness aside, this is just zero business sense. Here is a program that is screaming cash cow and they are doing nothing to gain from it. With millions of viewers all over the world they could be getting so much money from this show alone and it is all going to waste. Ad revenue, promotional space and sponsorships all to waste.
- Why don’t they have a schedule for the comming shows with their guest list.
- A listing of all archived shows and their content.
- References that they use, such as newspaper clippings, sources whatever.
- When they have a guest they should list his credentials someplace
- Transcripts of past shows
- A forum or discussion space where people can discuss current events and shows
- The ability to comment online during a show which is being aired so that people are offered more interactivity and the ability to give direct feedback.
- Video clips of the best shows if not all of them.
- Where are the RSS feeds so people can subscribe to all of the above
- Where are the blogs written by the reporters or Mona El-Shazly herself?
And that is just off the top of my head. Where are the designers? Where is their facebook page? Where is the ability to share clips? The multimedia?
The world has moved to web 2.0 , social networks and new tools and these people are still stuck in 1998′s version of the internet.
El Mehwar’s 90 minutes is much better but could still use some imrpovements, but that’s a totally different post.
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