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Thursday, February 11. 2010
Just received this message from Maxime:
Even if the Chaya Bros. sounds like Adventure, Restaurants, Finances and Industrial Design... it can be something even better! This family can sure cook, especially when it's for a good cause!
The four siblings: Maxime, Caline, Nabil & Karim are all rolling-up their sleeves this Friday to cook for you!
On the menu: Daube, chicken with sumac, roasted fennel tar, and much more!
All from the heart, and at Tawlet (Souk el Tayeb) in Mar Mikhael.
Buffet at 50 $ (instead of 25 $) as a fund-raiser for TOUFOULA (toufoula.org)
what a show it will be!
tags: toufoula, lebanon, beirut, tawleh, souk el tayib, mar mikhael, gemmayze, lebanese, maxime chaya, nabil chaya, karim chaya, caline chaya, dinner, fundraising
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Wednesday, February 10. 2010
DISCLAIMER: this blog post compares reality to virtual reality, from a purely anthropological perspective: Do people behave differently in virtual communities? This blog post is NOT about the election results! Please keep it civil in the comments section (we don't delete comments)
In preparation for the upcoming Municipal Elections in Lebanon, the Lebanese Twitter community has chosen to elect its own Mayor... And yes, as you can imagine, even in a virtual community of loosely coupled individuals, there's elections drama, tension, ballot stuffing, et al. Perhaps we are incapable of being civil, let alone elect intelligently and conscientiously?
Yes We Tweet! Vote for @Samerkaram
My pledges:
- Lower taxation on Tweets
- Implement a Tweet Stimulus package to encourage more Tweeting
- Invest in renewable energy Tweets for a greener Earth
- Close down Tweetanamo
- Fund the No Tweet Left Behind initiative
how about posting more frequently on Blogging Beirut?
Polls have Closed: If you're trying to make sense of the total number of votes (350), which is more than the entire Lebanese Twitter community, here's what happened:
Whilst observing the voting I noticed the following:
- Initially the vote tied at 50/50
- Then overnight the other candidate gained a 4% lead
- The following day, the vote tied again at 50/50
- And again overnight the other candidate gained a 4% lead
- etc.
What's interesting about these numbers is that in order to maintain the 4% lead, the other candidate had to increase votes ?exponentially? with every tie, as the total number of votes was growing (4% of 100 is less than 4% of 200). This meant that in the last 4% round, the other candidate acquired 30 votes overnight! Something smells fishy ;)
Twitter mimics Reality! Even in the virtual world, our elections ethics are lacking.
DISCLAIMER: this blog post compares reality to virtual reality, from a purely anthropological perspective: Do people behave differently in virtual communities? This blog post is NOT about the election results! Please keep it civil in the comments section (we don't delete comments)
tags: beirut, lebanon, yes we tweet, twtpoll, @samerkaram, @sdarine, mayor of the lebanese tweeple, humor, funny, elections
The man revealed at last. I thought I'd worked out who you were from the photo of the original blogging conference, only I got it wrong. So who is the guy smiling to camera in that photo?
Hey Guys.
Last time I checked: everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
If you don't like this blog post or the author's opinion: there's a small X inside a red box on the top-right hand c [...]
you know those Lebanese girls pay my hosting bills :) allah ykhalleeyon ;)
as for the inattention comment, i would like to remind you that i could not finish a SINGLE story on Wednesday even [...]
More importantly, i feel that the use of Adsense to shove "lebanese girls" advert in my face - TWICE, on the right and under the main post...(quite sure they're actually the same ukranians used [...]
ur funny
the total number of votes
182+153 is 335 .. so ur bad at mathematics
its not big deal
but im sure twitter has more than 350 users in Lebanon
much more
about elections
well yo [...]
Just read the blog and comments. Don't know what happened, but I thought it was a fun thing we were doing!
I participated from Dubai as have been visiting Beirut a lot and know both candidate [...]
Dude! Lighten up :P seriously.
You're giving it too much thought.
I've included both you and me in the "we" I mentioned, I'm not that far away, I'm in Lebanon too. I never said the other par [...]
thank you for reinforcing my 4% observation, and then for admitting fraud by stating "we know where it started, but obviously never worked".
whoever started it, knowing that either candidate [...]
i love when some one numerate his comment :)
nicely done :P
at the beginning when i didnt know who wrote this article, and now after knowing
i feel that it is more silly :D
so man n [...]
it's all about the patterns walid.
when votes come in 'odd' patterns - there's generally a concern over the legitimacy of the votes :)
that's how fraud is detected in real world elections.
This shows:
1- Someone has taken this too seriously.
2- The guy behind this blog is not happy with the fake election results.
3- He knows nothing about twitter and how networking works beca [...]
it is true that this election was for fun, but we were trying to be serious about it
now i was one of the participants in this election, and i can tell you that i was one of the tweepole who [...]
walid, this isn't about the outcome, but about the method.
some people would argue that the end justifies the means. this is very common in certain cultures, one of which happens to be ours.
[...]
since u have a blog u write in, u should at least consider the main and basic step in writing about an subject which is objectivity ... so plz try to know more about this election b4 writing abo [...]
well well , people can say whatever they want but what they miss is No one is perfect and i mean it , just one is perfect "GOD" so about wine , yes you can have your wine the way you like it and [...]
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