toot is the sound you make to draw attention to yourself. toot is a fruit that consists of little particles that make up a whole. toots belongs to a tree. toots is sweet. toot toot comes in different colours. No, really, what is this site?
tootlog What toot sounds like: hear it from the people behind this site
The toot team is extremely happy and excited as we just got back from the Jordan Web Awards where toot grabbed the GOLD shield and toot’s brand new sister site, Ikbis, grabbed the bronze! WOW! What a fantastic way to start the toot year!!
Where can you find a Saudi breakdancer, a Lebanese temptress and a narcoleptic sheik? At Ikbis (”click” in Arabic), a new Web site that lets Arabs join the file-sharing craze. Internet use in the Middle East has increased fourfold in the past six years, with more than 20 million logging on each day. The first Arabic-language service of its kind, Ikbis.com has already struck a chord—more than 1,000 files went up within a week of its November launch, and the site now tops 30,000 page views a day.
As the Arab blogosphere continues to grow and evolve, it is gaining more attention from Western journalists and academics. I just found a very interesting, long article, entitled The New Arab Conversation, on Columbia University’s Columbia Journalism Review. It is a comprehensive overview of the Arab blogging trend, from an American perspective.Toot and Ikbis were mentioned in the article as examples of an “interesting alternative space that is being formed” in the Arab blogosphere.
I need to point out a correction here, as the article assumes that Toot and Ikbis are English language site. Both sites are, in fact, bilingual, even though on Toot the English language blogs outweigh the Arabic ones in number.
Read the article here.
Via 360 East
