A goofy little site that runs around the Arab blogosphere and keeps track of certain blogs. There are a few issues with how they select blogs to aggregate and what their standards are. They outline these issues, but they are very subjective to the staff's views.
It is a good place to follow some of the leading blogs from the Arab world in both Arabic and English. iToot is a side project of Syntax. They have taken on lots of projects and design and brand all kinds of things around the Arab world.
Are aggregators useful to blogging communities? Especially one as large as the entire Arab world? iToot has been going for awhile, but doesn't seem to have reached a threshold that makes it too important for now. Maybe that isn't their goal.
What we find interesting includes: good writing, crazy ideas, cool photos, strong opinions, intelligent humor, civilized discussions, creative people and other cool stuff.
What we don’t find interesting is bigotry, closed mindedness, violence, hate and racism. We also are not interested in explicit materials and cheap bluetooth movies ;-) For now, toot will be linking to only 191 blogs/photostreams that were initially selected. We might add new blogs in the future. So submit your blog and make your case for being featured on toot.
You could be selected for inclusion in our next update. Toot’s decision to include or remove a blog is done at its sole discretion.
