Egyptian Blogs Aggregator مجمع المدونات المصرية

at last after almost 3 years the Egyptian Blogs aggregator has a design of it's own.

now website design is a matter of taste but I'm sure most of you will love this newlook.

thanks to Zeinab Sameer for her work on the design and Douaa El Adl for the funky logo.

with this we have officially launched the 4th iteration of the Egyptian blogs aggregator. enjoy and keep blogging.

as you know the aggregator is still a work in progress, it looks ugly, it doesn't work that well and it lacks many features. don't worry we are working on it bit by bit.

we just added a few neat features, you can now rate blog posts, if you like a post click on the up arrow and if you hate it click on the one pointing down, when enough people vote we'll start showing the highest rated polls. (note you have to be registered and logged in to use this feature).

speaking of registered users, if you register you'll get your own bookmarks page where you could add the posts you find interesting and refer back to them later.

now categories (specially tags) are a great way to navigate blogs, check the tag cloud above or see even more categories here. but neat as they may be unfortunately most Egyptian bloggers don't categorize their posts. Even when they do their worldview might not match with yours.

but don't despair you can now tag posts too, just click on the title of any blogpost to show it in a page of it's own and you'll find a field where you can add tags seperated by commas. (this tag for instance is bound to get interesting).

and finally, see a post that you like? share it with your friends by clicking on email this page.

Since January 2005 we've been running the Egyptian blogs aggregator @ http://www.manalaa.net/egblogs, the aggregator played a major role in building a community of bloggers (among them activists and citizen journalists), helped expose Egyptian bloggers to a wider audience and made bloggers more accessible to mainstream media.

and now after two years of running the aggregator it is finally going to get place of it's own, we have grand plans for new community oriented features, a better design and more community ownership.

give us a few days to get everything running.