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Does mobile internet improve communication or impede it?

The internet keeps changing, but it’s not necessarily only moving us only forward or improving our lives, as it increases its availability and reach. When the first version of the internet changed into “web 2.0”, it was already a drastic change, mostly for the best, but the mobile internet revolution has had an even greater impact. In order to illustrate...

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Successful relaunch of Al Jeel Al Jadeed

After a somewhat bumpy start, which was explained in this article published yesterday, the new song ‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’ has been firmly established in cyberspace. After the first 24 hours since the launch of its second version, it managed to hit the 5,000 views milestone!   The song was received warmly by many fans from all over the world....

Pre-release pilot study of Al Jeel Al Jadeed: results

On September 1, an email was sent out to a small group of people containing the mp3 file of the finished new Arabic song ‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’. The next day, an opportunity was given to 50 volunteers to test-drive the song on their mp3-players before its release, after answering a few survey questions. This little article contains an analysis...

Music and emotion: a personal story

Music is a way to express human emotion, and most likely has existed in its basic form for as long as homo sapiens has been roaming this planet. It has been researched extensively; we know that listening to music has measurable effects on the human mind and body. It almost functions like a drug, which can be used in both...