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	<title>toot: The Arab blog network</title>
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	<description>what the toot is happening here?</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lebanon Live Blogging</title>
		<link>http://blog.itoot.net/archives/lebanon-live-blogging</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roba</dc:creator>
		
	<category>toot Bucket</category>
	<category>سلة تووت</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Lebanese tooters are live-blogging the situation in Lebanon. 
For personal accounts: Lebanese Political Journal
News and round-ups: Beirut Spring
Comics: Kerblog
News updates: The Blacksmiths of Lebanon
Arabic: Nostalgic Story Teller

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Several Lebanese tooters are live-blogging the situation in Lebanon. </p>
<p>For personal accounts:<a href="http://lebop.blogspot.com/"> Lebanese Political Journal</a></p>
<p>News and round-ups: <a href="http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/05/08/reading-into-nassrallahs-speech/">Beirut Spring</a></p>
<p>Comics: <a href="http://itoot.net/GoRead.php?bid=3349">Kerblog</a></p>
<p>News updates:<a href="http://blacksmithsoflebanon.blogspot.com/2008/05/more-images-from-day-2-of-hizballahs.html"> The Blacksmiths of Lebanon</a></p>
<p>Arabic: <a href="http://hilalchouman.blogspot.com/2008/05/cest-normal.html">Nostalgic Story Teller</a>
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		<title>Watwet is Hiring!</title>
		<link>http://blog.itoot.net/archives/watwet-is-hiring</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roba</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Life at the office</category>
	<category>toot Bucket</category>
	<category>سلة تووت</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to work for a promising and fast-growing startup? Do you feel you are not given enough space to show more of your capabilities and talents? Do you want to be given more responsibilities and more credit for your achievements? Do you want to work with a smaller team that does magic and a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wanted to work for a promising and fast-growing startup? Do you feel you are not given enough space to show more of your capabilities and talents? Do you want to be given more responsibilities and more credit for your achievements? Do you want to work with a smaller team that does magic and a better job than many big teams, and includes intelligent and creative people? Do you want a job that provides you with something new to learn everyday?</p>
<p>Well, we are hiring. We are looking for the following positions to fill:<br />
Marketing &#038; Partnership Manager</p>
<p>You will be responsible for creatively creating, managing and measuring marketing campaigns run by Watwet in several countries in the region. You will also be responsible for identifying and pursuing partnership opportunities with media companies, events, and other major local and regional businesses, and following up and maintaining these partnerships.</p>
<p>    * 2-year relevant experience<br />
    * Super social, easy-going and charismatic person<br />
    * A quick and structured learner; and has a positive “can-do” attitude<br />
    * Ability to prepare and throw presentations comfortably<br />
    * Fluent in Arabic and English languages<br />
    * Excellent written and spoken communication skills<br />
    * Enjoys negotiation &#038; deal-making<br />
    * Strikes a perfect balance between listening and talking to people<br />
    * Happy to do short business trips around the region<br />
    * Loves the web, and enjoys working and shining in a startup</p>
<p>User Interface &#038; Graphics Designer</p>
<p>You will be responsible for how things look on Watwet! You see, you are that detail-oriented person, who can’t have a good sleep knowing that the Web Designer (the person mentioned in the below job vacancy) has missed your design by 1 pixel. You have a heart made of stone, and decide to call him/her up at 2:00 in the morning to nag on amending immediately that 1 pixel! :)</p>
<p>Your job will span from designing how things should work on Watwet (almost like product design), how information is presented to users (think: menus, links, hierarchy of information), and making sure Watwet is eye-catchy and loved for its design. You will also be responsible for designing ads (banner ads, printed ads) and stationary.</p>
<p>    * 2-year relevant experience<br />
    * Loves designing for the web<br />
    * Believes in the power of typography, simplicity and colors<br />
    * Excellent in illustrations<br />
    * Creative thinker and well-cultured<br />
    * Updated on latest trends in web user interface design<br />
    * Fluent in Arabic and English languages<br />
    * Preferably comfortable with Flash<br />
    * A big plus would be if you fluently know your way through xhtml and CSS (you would be compensated more!)</p>
<p>While it is preferred that you have some formal experience, if you are a fresh graduate with talent that needs some space to shine in, then we are happy to hear from you too! :)<br />
Web Designer</p>
<p>You will be responsible for implementing and maintaining web and mobile interfaces for Watwet, and other interfaces that we can’t really mention here right now! :)</p>
<p>You are a person who cares a lot about web standards and have read Zeldman, and follows A List Apart and other authorities. You do rock-solid and semantic markup, and know enough about SEO, accessibility and usability.</p>
<p>    * Knowledge in xhtml, CSS and Javascript<br />
    * Have a close eye on FLEX and Adobe AIR<br />
    * Believer of web standards<br />
    * Comfortable doing basic stuff over Rails APIs<br />
    * Geeky and detailed oriented<br />
    * Updated about the new trends</p>
<p>How to apply?</p>
<p>Send your resume and any portfolio (if applicable) to jobs@watwet.com</p>
<p>It would be super cool and nice of you if you tell us in one paragraph why you would like to join Watwet; e.g. what’s the 2-3 things that you are excited about in Watwet?</p>
<p>All applications will be treated confidentially.
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		<title>watwet is now public وت وت يفتح أبوابه</title>
		<link>http://blog.itoot.net/archives/watwet-is-now-public-%d9%88%d8%aa-%d9%88%d8%aa-%d9%8a%d9%81%d8%aa%d8%ad-%d8%a3%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%87</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roba</dc:creator>
		
	<category>tootisms</category>
	<category>Life at the office</category>
	<category>Technology stuff</category>
	<category>toot Bucket</category>
	<category>سلة تووت</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ت وت الآن في حلة جديدة ويفتح أبوابه للتسجيل أمام الكل. لا حاجة الآن لدعوة خاصة، يمكن للكل التسجيل بسهولة.
أبرز التحديثات في النسخة الحالية هي تعديل نظام صلاحيات عرض المحتوى،
بتقديم مستويات متعددة من الخصوصية. يمكنك الآن تحديد من سيرى تحديثاتك
وتحديثات أصدقائك وعناصر ملفك الشخصي. كذلك تم تحديث نظام &#8220;الهمس&#8221;
(الرسائل الخاصة)، والآن بالإمكان إرسال نفس الرسالة [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://watwet.com/">ت وت</a> الآن في حلة جديدة ويفتح أبوابه للتسجيل أمام الكل. لا حاجة الآن لدعوة خاصة، يمكن للكل التسجيل بسهولة.</p>
<p>أبرز التحديثات في النسخة الحالية هي تعديل نظام صلاحيات عرض المحتوى،<br />
بتقديم مستويات متعددة من الخصوصية. يمكنك الآن تحديد من سيرى تحديثاتك<br />
وتحديثات أصدقائك وعناصر ملفك الشخصي. كذلك تم تحديث نظام &#8220;الهمس&#8221;<br />
(الرسائل الخاصة)، والآن بالإمكان إرسال نفس الرسالة الخاصة لأكثر من صديق<br />
بنقرة واحدة.</p>
<p>إضافة إلى بعض التحسينات الجمالية الطفيفة، والتحسينات البرمجية على مستوى النظام.</p>
<p>إذا كان هناك أي خطأ أو إقتراحات يرجى إبلاغنا. بما في ذلك الأخطاء الإملائية واللغ</p>
<p>Via <a href="http://blog.ikbis.com/2008/2/5/%D9%88%D8%AA-%D9%88%D8%AA-%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%AD-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%87-%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9">Ikbis Blog</a></p>
<p><a href="http://watwet.com/">watwet </a>now has a brand new look and is also open for subscriptions! :) Come join us on the watwet community.
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		<title>New tooters! :) [FINAL ADDITIONS!]</title>
		<link>http://blog.itoot.net/archives/new-tooters-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roba</dc:creator>
		
	<category>tootisms</category>
	<category>toot Bucket</category>
	<category>سلة تووت</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know, we know, it&#8217;s been a while, which is exactly why we&#8217;re super excited to announce that this week will be the week of new tooters! 
Link back to us
And our final 10 additions to toot are the following blogs, bringing the grand total of new tooters to 50. http://www.jazarah.net/blog/http://www.reflectupon.blogspot.com/http://abufares.blogspot.com/http://blacksmithsoflebanon.blogspot.com/http://almiraatblog.blogspot.com/http://www.tadwen.com/melhamy/http://www.monaeltahawy.com/http://faragallah.blogspot.com/http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/http://moeys.net/
4th Batch of new bloggers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We know, we know, it&#8217;s been a while, which is exactly why we&#8217;re super excited to announce that this week will be the week of new tooters! </p>
<p>Link back to us<br /><a href="http://itoot.net/go.toot.php" title="link back to us- go toot"><img src="http://itoot.net/images/new/linkback-go.gif" alt="go toot" height="24" width="115" /></a><br /><a href="http://itoot.net/on.toot.php" title="link back to us- I'm on toot"><img src="http://itoot.net/images/new/linkback-on.gif" alt="I'm on toot" height="24" width="115" /></a></p>
<p>And our final 10 additions to toot are the following blogs, bringing the grand total of new tooters to 50. <br /><a href="http://www.jazarah.net/blog/">http://www.jazarah.net/blog/</a><samer@jazarah.net><br /><a href="http://www.reflectupon.blogspot.com/">http://www.reflectupon.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://abufares.blogspot.com/">http://abufares.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://blacksmithsoflebanon.blogspot.com/">http://blacksmithsoflebanon.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://almiraatblog.blogspot.com/">http://almiraatblog.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.tadwen.com/melhamy/">http://www.tadwen.com/melhamy/</a><br /><a href="http://www.monaeltahawy.com/">http://www.monaeltahawy.com/</a><br /></samer@jazarah.net><a href="http://faragallah.blogspot.com/">http://faragallah.blogspot.com/</a><br /><samer@jazarah.net><a href="http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/">http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://moeys.net/">http://moeys.net/</a></p>
<p>4th Batch of new bloggers to toot:</p>
<p><a href="http://copywriterinuae.com/">http://copywriterinuae.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.atrissi.com/wordpress/">http://www.atrissi.com/wordpress/</a><br /><a href="http://www.al-rasid.com/blog">http://www.al-rasid.com/blog</a><br /><a href="http://29letters.wordpress.com/">http://29letters.wordpress.com/</a><br /><a href="http://dubaimedia.blogspot.com/">http://dubaimedia.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://moroccanmaryam.typepad.com/my_marrakesh/%20">http://moroccanmaryam.typepad.com/my_marrakesh/ </a><br /><a href="http://www.arabesquerhabsody.com/blog/">http://www.arabesquerhabsody.com/blog/</a><br /><a href="http://imthi.com/blog/">http://imthi.com/blog/</a><br /><a href="http://www.american-in-jordan.com/">http://www.american-in-jordan.com/</a><br /><a href="http://abuhilaleh.maktoobblog.com/">http://abuhilaleh.maktoobblog.com/</a></p>
<p>For day three:<br /><a href="http://ammartalk.com/">http://ammartalk.com/</a><br /><a href="http://urshalim.blogspot.com/%20">http://urshalim.blogspot.com/ </a><br /><a href="http://www.blafrancia.com/">http://www.blafrancia.com/</a><br /><a href="http://ut-ly.blogspot.com/">http://ut-ly.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://battutabahrain.blogspot.com/">http://battutabahrain.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://jarofjuice.blogspot.com/">http://jarofjuice.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://ya-ashrafe-nnas.blogspot.com/">http://ya-ashrafe-nnas.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://digressing.blogspot.com/">http://digressing.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://rantingsofanarabchick.blogspot.com/%20">http://rantingsofanarabchick.blogspot.com/ </a><br /><a href="http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/">http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/</a></p>
<p>For day two:<br /><a href="http://saroujah.blogspot.com/">Syrian News Wire</a>&nbsp; <br /><a href="http://7aki-fadi.blogspot.com/">7aki Fadi</a><br /><a href="http://dubai-invogue.blogspot.com/%20">Dubai in Vogue</a><br /><a href="http://saudiandthecity.blogspot.com/%20">Saudi and the City</a><br /><a href="http://www.reflectionsallmine.net/%20">Reflections All Mine</a><br /><a href="http://francom.com">Francom</a><br /><a href="http://gadgetsarabia.com/">Gadgets Arabia</a><br /><a href="http://hilalchouman.blogspot.com/">Hilal Chouman</a><br /><a href="http://www.mohomar.com/">Mouhammad Omar</a><br /><a href="http://karakeb.blogspot.com/">Karakeb</a></p>
<p>For day one, here are our newest additions to the toot community:</p>
<p><a href="http://kuwaitism.com/">Kuwaitism</a><br /><a href="http://mazenkerblog.blogspot.com/">kerblog</a> <br /><a href="http://thearabobserver.blogspot.com/">The Arab Observer</a><br /><a href="http://myoccupiedterritory.net/">My Occupied Territory</a><br /><a href="http://www.zdistrict.com/">Z-District</a><br /><a href="http://alfalasteenyia.blogspot.com/">Al Falasteeneya</a><br /><a href="http://fann3arabi.wordpress.com/">Fann 3arabi</a><br /><a href="http://wahdah.blogspot.com/">The Moor Next Door</a><br /><a href="http://k.thekuwaiti.com">K the Kuwaiti</a><br /><a href="http://ibnbintjbeil.blogspot.com/">Ibn Bent Jbeil</a></p>
<p>Ahlan, ahlan! :)</p>
<p></samer@jazarah.net><br />
<h5>Link back to us</h5>
<p><a href="http://itoot.net/go.toot.php" title="link back to us- go toot"><img src="http://itoot.net/images/new/linkback-go.gif" alt="go toot" height="24" width="115" /></a><br /><a href="http://itoot.net/on.toot.php" title="link back to us- I'm on toot"><img src="http://itoot.net/images/new/linkback-on.gif" alt="I'm on toot" height="24" width="115" /></a>&lt;
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		<title>New tooters! :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roba</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We know, we know, it&#8217;s been a while, which is exactly why we&#8217;re super excited to announce that this week will be the week of new tooters! For day one, here are our newest additions to the toot community:
Kuwaitismkerblog The Arab ObserverMy Occupied TerritoryZ-DistrictAl FalasteeneyaFann 3arabiThe Moor Next DoorK the KuwaitiIbn Bent Jbeil
Ahlan, ahlan! :)

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We know, we know, it&#8217;s been a while, which is exactly why we&#8217;re super excited to announce that this week will be the week of new tooters! <br />For day one, here are our newest additions to the toot community:</p>
<p><a href="http://kuwaitism.com/">Kuwaitism</a><br /><a href="http://mazenkerblog.blogspot.com/">kerblog</a> <br /><a href="http://thearabobserver.blogspot.com/">The Arab Observer</a><br /><a href="http://myoccupiedterritory.net/">My Occupied Territory</a><br /><a href="http://www.zdistrict.com/">Z-District</a><br /><a href="http://alfalasteenyia.blogspot.com/">Al Falasteeneya</a><br /><a href="http://fann3arabi.wordpress.com/">Fann 3arabi</a><br /><a href="http://wahdah.blogspot.com/">The Moor Next Door</a><br /><a href="http://k.thekuwaiti.com">K the Kuwaiti</a><br /><a href="http://ibnbintjbeil.blogspot.com/">Ibn Bent Jbeil</a></p>
<p>Ahlan, ahlan! :)
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