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iToot interview & bloging Misc

Posted: July 8th, 2006 | Author: dotblack | Filed under: Podcasting, dotShow | 2 Comments »

Seems like I never posted this. Last week, well two weeks ago I recorded the first episode of dotShow and featured an interview with the team behind iToot.net. If you haven’t heard the show, then check it out here.

What I noticed on Toot is the lack of commercial blogs. That made me search for some. I was shocked by the low level of adoption of commercial bloging in the Middle Eeast.

So I’m thinking, is it the adoption nature that it’s all about time, or just the nature of closed-ended business in the Middle East. Lately the only ad/online agency that I read their blog was under a childish attack in forums and blogs. The agency used WordPress as their CMS and sold it to clients as the tool for managing content without mentioning the whole story behind the CMS. Anyway, thank god they had a blog and that could open up doors and ways for communicating the issue and solving it up. It works!

Okay, I think I’m taken in dwwen. So searched for commercial blogs there too, to no avail.

Or maybe it’s not the right time to talk about commercial blogs in the Middle East?

How much I wished Etisalat had a blog. At least when they blocked Flickr we could ask and get a PR from a proper representative.

Etisalat, please, get us a blog, get us a human being that posts and answers. We have loads of questions and feedback! Didn’t you just say REACH?

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2 Comments on “iToot interview & bloging Misc”

  1. 1 Khobbeizeh said at 4:13 pm on July 11th, 2006:

    Very nice blog,
    i have nothing against the English language, but my question regarding itoot interview is: toot is an Arabic website, audience/users are all Arabs, all the people in the interview were Arabs, they even had speaking difficulties in English sometimes, so why did you do all that in English?

  2. 2 dotone said at 5:36 pm on July 11th, 2006:

    Hey there, thanks for stopping by.

    My aim is to have the show for the Middle East audience and that includes non-Arabic-speaking listeners, that’s all.