November 8, 2003

Second anniversary of Persian blogging

November 5 was the "Persian blogging day" and it's a big shame that I didn't remember it until yesterday and a bigger one that I haven't written anything about it here, although I posted something on my Persian weblog which now has English summaries below every single post.

Two years ago on this day I published a step-to-step giude on how to creat a Persian weblog, because many people have asked me to--apparently after they had read my Persian weblog for a couple of weeks. The guide helped many people create their own weblog and eventually helped Iranian find the real power of Internet which, to many,was only chat rooms.

Today there are probably more than 100,000 Persian weblogs out there (many of them not active obviousely), producing tons of Persian content everyday about the lives and minds of Iranians in a very important period in the history of Iran, when the religious regime has clearly failed to respond to its own people and is gradually changing.

If only the language barrier didn't exist, the whole world could see the most accurate and unique insight into the most complicated nation in the mid-east region, and maybe world politicians would really find out what would be the best approach to deal with the Iranian regime.

Many problems and misunderstandigs in the world eventually comes down to the language. Can we ever overcome this problem?

Posted by hoder at November 8, 2003 1:34 AM

Comments
Alta Vista's Babel Fish will translate any given web page with about 75% accuracy, enought to get the point anyway... And its free. I dont know if it can handle non western fonts, but someone might give it a try and post their results here. http://world.altavista.com/
- By: sblafren on November 11, 2003
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If a program could translate the writing to english, much could be understood. Just as pushing a button converts euros to dollars to pounds to liras, so should a language button be available. Thanks Nimrod from Babel.
- By: peteman on November 9, 2003
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Happy Persian Blogging day to all.
- By: A persian girl in California on November 9, 2003
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