Oman Blogosphere: June, 2008

Since it is the beginning of a new month, here is a quick sum up of last month's Oman Blogsphere activities. From the hottest to the newest, I cover it all.

What seemed to have dominated the most discussion in the Oman Blogosphere from last month was the story about Oman still being Tier 3. The Discussion started out from Undercover Dragon's Blog, muscatconfidential.blogspot.com but it really started heating up when it continued to Blue-Chi's Blog blue-chi.blogspot.com and when he started expressing how much he disagrees with Undercover Dragon. Many comments were made and more posts were created by the authors expressing them selves and after reading almost all of it, it seems like the argument was divided into expats versus Omanis with the expats agreeing on the Tier 3 and the Omanis not. But to be fair, there were a couple of Omanis who were with the expats in this.

The Blog that has produced the most posts is Andy's Blog, andyinoman.blogspot.com with a number of 47 posts. Andy is or used to be an English professor at Ibri College. Andy shared his experience working and living in Oman in his Blog and he currently is on vacation and will come back to Oman at the mid of August based on his last post. I think the reason why Andy has the most posts is not because he had the most content it's because he divided one topic into many posts rather than putting them in at once which I personally found very annoying. I like reading his posts but only wish that he could have put more effort in making them more comfortable to read.

Surprisingly, the Blog with the least posts last month was the Oman Community Blog. This Blog used to be the hottest Blog in the Blogosphere but suddenly, all of the authors stopped posting in it and rather, started posting more in their own Blog. Is it because the Blogs have the same topic that it wouldn't make sense to be posting in both places? When I was first asked to join the community last year, that was exactly why I didn't want to join because it didn't make sense. Anyway, it is a shame to see only see 2 posts since last month and I hope to see more this month.

A few new Blogs have come to the scene that I think are worth mentioning.
First is Leo Americanus with his Blog, leoamericanus.blogspot.com. Leo is an American Traveler who currently lives in Oman. His Blog mostly discusses news. Not all of his discussions are on Oman, they vary but most are from the GCC.
Second is Bobby Bollozou's Blog, bobbybollo.blogspot.com which is also titled Muscat Insomniacs. Bobby is an expatriate who lives in Muscat at Wadi Kabir. His Blog is mostly about sharing his thoughts on random topics and he even writes some poetry from time to time.
And last but not least, we have Omanymous with his Blog anonoman.wordpress.com. Omanymous' Blog is very recent and he started his Blog because he was inspired by some of the topics covered by other Blogs. My guess, he was mostly inspired by the Tier 3 Blogs (correct me if I am wrong). So far, his Blog covers general topics related to Oman. It still seems like he is not yet comfortable with the whole Blogging scene but based on his posts, he is keen to get there.

Mom Blogs are also making an impact in the Blogosphere. First mom Blog is Suburban's Blog, otheroman.blogspot.com. I really enjoy reading Suburbans posts. They are very humorous, witty and I always laugh out laud after reading anything (if it's meant to be funny of course).
Another Mom Blog is L_Oman's blog, shockedculturally.blogspot.com. I only started following this Blog recently and so far, I think it is pretty interesting. The situations that this woman goes through just cranks you up.
What I hope from the two Blogs above is more posts. Since I've been following Suburban's Blog for a while, I know how much content she often produces and last moth was very little. Keep up the good job ladies, I hope more moms are inspired to start their own Blogs soon.

Something to look forward to. A Blogger who I absolutely love, Amjad who is the author of his Blog amjad248.blogspot.com, is coming back from the USA for a couple of months very soon which means, his Blog is going to start to be about Oman again. He should be on the plane back right now as I write. I hope you arrive safely, man.

One of the Blogosphere's biggest loses is the death of an amazing Blogger who was known as Sleepless in Muscat. You can read more about it by clicking here.

This is it for this month, I hope I've presented valuable information about last month's Oman Blogosphere. If there is anything that you would like to add, please do so in the comment section.