Talk:Iranian blogs

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[edit] Persian blogs or Iranian blogs

We are talking here about blogs from Iran They could be in Persian, English, kurdi, or any other language.That's why the title of the page couldn't be Persian blogs. --Hoder 23:12, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Too many media links

It's nice that the article has an extensive collection of news about Iranian blogs, but it should be trimmed and interesting content incorporated into this article. We can't rely on linked sites to tell the story, we must do it in encyclopedia itself. Paranoid 10:08, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I agree. But I've always thought we sould keep a bibliography of the subject too. And why not here? --Hoder 20:59, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I would suggest removing the blog links out of the media links and keeping 5-7 links at the most, afterall this is not an archive of links. I trust BBC, CS Monitor, CNN will tell the story correctly no need to repeat it multiple times. Perhapse another sub-section regarding politcal arrests of iranian bloggers is needed ?

[edit] 30% of all blogs are persian? hard to believe

As of today (17 April 2005) http://www.blogcensus.net/?page=lang claims 64,049 farsi blogs of a total of 2,108,226. IMHO someone just forgot a factor of 10: about 3% of blogs are farsi, not 30%. English blogs are 1,286,508 i.e. a bit over 50%. i'll correct this now before the error spreads too far... In South Asian terminology, this is 0.6 lakh farsi blogs out of 20 lakh blogs total... Boud 15:15, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] updating numbers

Removing old link - NITLE doesn't seem to be very up-to-date - 65,000 active weblogs

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[edit] removed stopahmadinejad blog

This is about blogs made by Iranians, not blogs made by Americans about Ahmadinejad. I don't think that Alexander Sienkiewicz, who registered the blog and lives in San Luis Obispo, California, is an Iranian.