Finally doodle in Egypt

Finally doodle in Egypt; I liked the idea immensely because those who will design the logo are the orphan children. We are supposed to vote for the best logo that represents Egypt. The winning logo will be displayed on Google Egypt on "the orphans' day" (the first Friday of every April).

This year it will be on the third of April.
There are competitions held all over the world for children to design a logo of Google. Google has organized this competition for the first time in Egypt and the Arabian world in accordance with the celebration of the orphans' day on the third of April. A group of orphans were invited to participate in this competition, this day is planned to be full of joy and entertainment for children. More than 160 orphans participated in last year's competition (20th of march).
Picking the winning logo last year went through two stages:

First stage:
25 designs were chosen from 160 designs in 20th of March. The board included professors of design from the German university in Cairo (GUC).
Choosing only 25 designs was a very difficult process. The following standards were considered in picking these designs:
- the artistic sense
- the artistic creation
- the link between the logo and Egypt

Second stage:
Currently there is a public vote for picking the best logo to be displayed on the 3rd of April – vote now! , Click here for photos of the event

Many organizations participated in that event, such as German University In Cairo (GUC), Resala charity organization and the Egyptian actor Khaled Abo-Elnaga.

This is the logo I chose:
My Doodle Egypt
Check the Facebook Group: It was created by Wael Ghonim (MENA Product & Marketing Manager at Google).

The idea of doodle began in the year 2000 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin asked Dennis Hwang to design a ceremonial logo in the honor of Bastille Day. Dennis Hwang said that his favorite logo was the one he designed for Magritte's birthday.
From that day on, Dennis Hwang started designing ceremonial logos for international ceremonies, in addition to festivals. He is such a famous designer and we all follow up his works and look out for his designs. He designs around 50 logos per year.

Egyptian Bloggers Full Statistics - Part 3

In this part we will take about the top 10 figures Egyptian bloggers mention on their Blogs.

After analyzing the 10 most important persons mentioned in Blogs we found
That 6 of them are political figures, 3 are cultural & artistic figures, and a religious one.
Three most important figures mentioned in the Blogs are President Mubarak and the Prophet Muhammad, God's blessings and peace be upon him, and Mr. Jamal Mubarak.

- The Top 10 figures are:

1- President Mubarak (repeated by 31.3%)
2- Prophet Muhammad, God's blessings and peace be upon him (repeated by 17.9%)
3- Mr. Jamal Mubarak (repeated by 9.6% )
4- The Lebanese singer Fairouz (repeated by 7.8% )
5- Mr. Hasan Nasr Allah ( Hezbuoallah leader, repeated by 6.2% )
6- President Gorge Bush (repeated by 6% )
7- Egyptian singer Muhammed Mounir (repeated by 6% )
8- The Egyptian late president the great leader Jamal Abd Al-Nasr (repeated by 5.4% )
9- The Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Najm (repeated by 4.9% )
10-The late president Saddam Hussien (repeated by 4.9% )

There is a large uneven in Blogs activity, There are blogs contains up to 595 posts, and others contains only one post.
As for the comments you will notice that most comments were irrelevant to the topic.

Egyptian bloggers uses all tools of blogging as text, images and videos
Amounted to a total proportion of Bloggers that uses only text are 37%.
the rest of Bloggers rely on a combination of various means of Blogging are approximately 61%.

The percentage of Egyptian Bloggers uses Arabic language in Blogging is 76.8% .
The English language is in second place with a rate of 9.5%, Most of these Bloggers uses Wordpress,wordspirit & Blogsome.

I think the most famous Egyptian Bloggers at all is Wael Abbas & Zainab Or Egyptian Girl there are others are well known but I think Wael is the most known one among them .
that is it for this post , I hope one day Arabian Bloggers will have their own version of Technorati.

Egyptian Bloggers Full Statistics - Part 2

We will talk in this part about Top blogging cities in Egypt.
This sample represents only Blogspot (1185 Random sample, 1312 Systematic sample)
Egyptian Blogs according to Egyptian governorates


1- As to the chosen sample 11850 blogs (47.2 %) expose its identity and place against (52.8 %) doesn’t.
2- Total Egyptian blogs publish from inside Egypt is 9380 Blog (79.2%) against 2470 Blog
(20.8 %) outside Egypt.
3- Egyptian Blogging governorates growth rate :

4-Development of blogging movement in Egypt:
A) Blogging was limited to 3 % (from the sample) till the end of 2004.
B) Then jumps with new Blogs from 3 % by 2004 to 18 % by 2005. (Increased by 15 %)
C) Blogs continuous rising at 2006 and reached 26 %. (Increased by 9 %)
D) Till it reached at the first quarter of 2008 14.2 % from total sample. (Increased by 14.2%)
E) It’s expected to reach 42.6% at the beginning of 2009.
I will stop here for part 2 and prepare the third and last part , then upload the source for Arabian blogger.

Egyptian Bloggers Full Statistics - Part 1

This post & the following 2 posts will give us an average statistics about Blogging in Arabian World and will focus on Egypt Blogs ( No. of blogs, Types, Subjects, Authors …etc)
Part 1 will give us a short brief about No. of Arabian blogs, Main Blogs, No. of Egyptian blogs & types of blogs).

In First the interest in blogging was so limited at 2001, then it starts to expand year after year until it become the most important method for youth to express themselves without any boundaries.
It was very normal for bloggers to interact with events in Egypt & as well as Arab world, the Demonstrations in the streets turned to virtual Demonstrations online.
I won’t speak here about blogging statistics all over the world you can check Technorati .

I’ll give you a short brief about Blogs in the Arabian World.

1-Arabian blogs is less then Iranian blogs.
2-Arabian Internet users are 9.7 % from total Arabian population, which is 1/3 from Iranian Internet users.
3-You will find most bloggers Use: Maktoob, Jeeran, Blogspot, Wordpress, and Blogspirit.
The following table represents number of Egyptian blogs distrbuted on Major Blogging domains.


4-Egyptian Blogs represents 30.7% from Arabian blogs.
5-Avg. 160,000 Blog by 75 Blogging Domains till April 2008.
6-Arabian Blogs Including Egyptian Blogs represent (0.07%) from Global Blogosphere ( Avg. 490,000 Blog).
7-The numbers of Egyptian blogs aren’t clear due to lake of archiving & lake of directories.
8-Figure 1 will show you that Egyptian blogs distrusted among several Blogging Domains.


9-You will find that 96.3% of blogs focuses in 4 Major Blogging domains three of them are Arabian like Jeeran, Maktoob, Albawaba & the last is Google Blogspot.
10-The rest of blogs are 3.7 % distributed on 71 Blogging Domains.
11-Figure 2 will show you types of blogs.


Wait for the Second Part.