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100,000 Persian Blogs

May 4, 2005

Just read an interesting article in Time magazine about Iranian bloggers. Writer Nahid Siamdoust says there are an estimated 100,000 Iranian blogs and that Persian ranks with French for the number-two spot as most-used language in the blogosphere. The article is at:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1056278,00.html

Although some bloggers are public figures, such as former Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, others are underground commentators critical of the Iranian government. Siamdoust says more than 20 online activists were detained last year and beaten.

BTW, for a while now, Time has been running a�regular Blogwatch feature under its Notebook section.

AB -- 5/4/05




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