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Musing over the Arab Blogosphere
Every time I pause, step out of the picture, and study the Arab blogosphere, I find myself amused at how quickly and dynamically it is changing and growing. It is even more amusing to scratch the surface and look at it a little deeper- you can clearly see distinctive borders of the different Arab countries sketched on the internet, with their respective mentalities, interests, and correlations.
Most of the countries have formed their own little blogging communities, and perhaps even built walls around these regional communities. To my knowledge, toot will be the first attempt to bridge the Arab blogosphere as whole, beyond traditional formats and the shackles of time and space; bridging a community of Arabs with a passion for sharing.
Needless to say, I’m really excited at the prospects.
To make things even more exciting, although I’ve met all the toot team on random occasions before, today was my first “full-toot-team” event. Even Mazen all the way in London made an appearance(as you can see on Karim’s laptop screen)!
10 Responses to “Musing over the Arab Blogosphere”
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December 6th, 2005 at 12:45 pm
Well said roba.. welcome to the team!
December 7th, 2005 at 12:50 pm
I look like I am at the end of the world… Welcome to the team indeed!
December 8th, 2005 at 9:29 am
Mabrook guys! I really like it. There has been a gap in the Arab blogosphere which needs to be filled, and I’m really glad that -as always- it is by a Jordanian company.
December 8th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
Ah.. the Jeeran people are here too.. Welcome! This site is supposed to be secret :) Heavy construction still going on. We hope you’ll like the end result, which, I might add will not be an end result.. not even an alpha :)
December 8th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
secret’s out! the pictures have been on some of you guys’ flickr account for a week.
and as ghawwar says “kashafnaki! irfa3i ideiki!!”
and as jordanians chant “itla3 min bein il khobbeizeh”
good job team
December 8th, 2005 at 3:59 pm
Good luck.
December 9th, 2005 at 9:48 am
and…it is already on internet forums.
December 9th, 2005 at 4:47 pm
what forums?
December 11th, 2005 at 4:36 am
nice navigation, simple design, attractive name, genius idea, good work. i love it.
good luck …
January 3rd, 2006 at 5:33 am
Hala 3ammi
Mabrook ya shabab and mabrook ya Kareem, finally Toot is on fire…..
Well the toot word in Arabic in the logo is what made the logo very very very nice…. Well what about ninish is still alive?
Great job………