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Natasha Tynes cruises the Arab Blogosphere
From commenting on the latest political events to challenging taboos and crossing red lines, citizen journalists, or bloggers, across the Arab world are busy trying to make themselves heard. Analysts agree that Arab bloggers have made sure to get a big share of the blogging pie in a time when citizen journalists across the globe are scrutinizing the mainstream media with their subjective take on the political and social arenas.
So says Jordanian blogger Natasha Tynes in her blogging feature for ‘G21′, where she takes us on a trip around the Arab blogosphere. In the feature, Tynes covers various issues related to blogging in the Middle East, including anonymity, country-specific blogging, and podcasting.
The feature reads,
“Bayazidi, who runs a blog at http://isam.bayazidi.net/, foresees remarkable growth in the Arab blogging scene. ‘According to statistics from Arab service providers and large blog service providers world-wide, the number of blogs from the Arab world is currently estimated at seven thousands blogs,’ Bayazidi told G21. ‘What made a mark in 2005 is having three blog service providers from the Arab world, providing blogging templates that enable posting in Arabic with great ease,’ he explained.
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Another Arab blogging community is the newly launched itoot, which is a pan-Arab portal that selects the scribbles from Arab bloggers on a daily basis. The portal also allows readers to vote on what they see as the best Arab blogs.
‘[Itoot ] is about showcasing the best of Arabia blogs and giving readers a good starting point to explore the Arab- related blogoshpere,’ said Humeid who is also the founder of itoot.
It is the first human driven aggregator in the Arab world. There is a real daily effort in selecting the blogs featured on toot and sifting through the multitude of posts everyday to feature a bouquet of interesting opinions, rants and raves,’ he explained.”
Read all of Natasha Tynes’ article here
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February 24th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Congrats! The more attention to bloggers, the merrier!!