February 25, 2005
AlterNet on Iranian blogs
Here is a well-done AlterNet report on the Iranian weblogs, titled 'Building Blogs':
Posted by hoder at February 25, 2005 3:20 PMPersian blogs represent a grassroots movement that is paving the way for Iran's political awakening. These thousands of online journals show their tyrannical government that social change is inevitable. "If the Supreme Leader was a fan of reading blogs," Derakhshan said, "Iran would be a different country." Moreover, these genuine Iranian voices are trying to tell the rest of the world that not only are the people of Iran ready to embrace democracy, but that they are fully capable of bringing about this change themselves. Iranian bloggers are ready to open the bridge, the café, the window with the West and start an international dialogue.
Comments
There is always the Wayback Machine, so archives will always exist, for example: http://web.archive.org/web/20040221012050/www.sigarchi.com/blog/
- By: Kjetil Kjernsmo on March 5, 2005
- By: Kjetil Kjernsmo on March 5, 2005
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I noticed that while Arash Sigarchi's site seems to have been taken down, his archives still turn up if you do a google search and you can view them by clicking on "Cached." Is there a way to save the google caches so that they could eventually be archived and/or translated? Being able to read his words would certainly help raise Western bloggers' awareness and concern for this story.
- By: Katherine on February 27, 2005
- By: Katherine on February 27, 2005
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