Iranian Blog Crackdown
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Iranian bl0ggers protest 'Net crackdown
Iranian bl0ggers protest 'Net crackdown
09/20/2004 12:28 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Hoder says, "Hundreds of bloggers have
changed their blogs' names to Emrooz, the name of the banned website
for which several people have been arrested. Bloggers have also copied
banned site's news into their own blogs on Monday. It's really the
biggest protest since [the recent arrest of Iranian weblogger] Sinas."
Link
OJR article: Iranian Bloggers Protest
Government Crackdown on Reformist News
Sites
OJR article: Iranian Bloggers Protest
Government Crackdown on Reformist News
Sites
09/22/2004 10:11 AM§ˆ„Œ† ¨§ª§¨ §¬Œ §ª§ Œˆ .. Online Journalism Review .. Iranian
repression
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Iranian VP bl0g
Iranian VP bl0g
04/17/2004 02:00 PMHoder on the BloggerCon IRC points to a blog by the VP of Iran. Quick
look: Wow!...
Iranian MPs bl0g sit-in protests
Iranian MPs bl0g sit-in protests
01/19/2004 03:08 PMUpdate on a
previous BoingBoing post: Persian blogger Hossein Derakshan
points us to a weblog by Iranian MPs protesting a decision to ban
thousands of reformists from next month's Iranian elections.
the good thing is that, apparently, while they have no access to any
Iranian TV or Radio, they've embraced weblogs as a great means of a)
publishing their announcements and program b) reaching the young
Iranians who have long lost their interest in politics whatsoever.
Linkbl0g-based campaign to open Iranian
Parliament to ordinary Iranians
bl0g-based campaign to open Iranian
Parliament to ordinary Iranians
01/26/2004 11:29 AMBlogger Hossein Derakshan says, "Project 'Ordinary Iranians for
Parliament' needs your help."
LinkKyrgyz government bl0g crackdown update
Kyrgyz government bl0g crackdown update
03/24/2005 02:22 PMXeni Jardin:
Boing Boing reader Paul says,
This is regarding the article you posted today on Kyrgyz .gov
hijacking news websites. The article stated that there is a lack of
foreign correspondents (true) and public access to the internet. As
far as I know the Kyrgyz government has been progressive with public
internet access and when I was there a year and half ago they had
modern computers running XP with available peripheral devices such as
scanners in the post office of nearly every town (including small
towns of a few thousand people).
For recent pictures "on the ground" pictures from the Coalition for
Democracy and Civil Society see here, blog photos here, Muslim
Uzbekistan (AP/Reuters) photos here.
The best Kyrgyz blog would probably be: registan.net , also http://blog.kz/.
For Peace Corps blogs: kyrgyzstankid.blogspot.com/<
/a> , kyrgyzsean.blogspot.com/,
courtneycalvin.blogspot.com
/,kumys.com, charlesinkyrgyzstan.bl
ogspot.com/
And a plug for a good friend who keeps me up-to-date from slightly
less volatile Azerbaijan (Caustic Commentary From The Caucasus) - carpetblog.blogspot.com/
Previously on Boing Boing --
Report: Kyrgyzstan government hijacking news websitesTrouble finding content for your bl0g?
Heres an idea: Make your bl0g into an
answerbl0g
Trouble finding content for your bl0g?
Heres an idea: Make your bl0g into an
answerbl0g
12/19/2004 03:32 PMThis is a new "trend" that I am seeing amongst some of the blogs I
follow: People have started reading their keyword logs and begun
answering the questions that their visitors obvisouly have. Mind you,
some of the questions that...
Wish-of-the-Month Club, Part 1 of 3 -
Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog
Wish-of-the-Month Club, Part 1 of 3 -
Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog
06/18/2004 04:58 AM0-Click Shopping(tm), using Amazon's Web Services .. Automatic
wishlist purchases with Amazon's API .. Make your own wishes come
true, once
decafbad.com/blog/2004/06/16/wishofthemonthclub1
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Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched (Jeremy
Zawodny's bl0g)
Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched (Jeremy
Zawodny's bl0g)
08/20/2004 06:41 AMysearchblog commentators .. background information .. some background
info .. weitere Details .. Jeremy Z ..
jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002431.html
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Iranian Nukes
Iranian Nukes
06/14/2004 12:28 AM
Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi recently said:
Iran will not give up its rights to the peaceful use of atomic
energy as well as its
right to supply nuclear fuel to its power plants.
OPEC's second
largest oil producing
nation needs nuclear power plants? Note that Iran also
has the world's second
largest natural gas reserve. Hmm. Maybe they have the
world's largest
BS reserves they are dying to export.
Iranian Truth
Iranian Truth
12/28/2003 07:47 AM- Iranian Truth - .. need .. Nema
iraniantruth.blogspot.com
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Iranian graphics
Iranian graphics
12/24/2004 12:29 PM
David Pescovitz:
Last week, my wife stumbled upon a small monograph of the work of
Iranian graphic designer
Reza
Abedini. Arabic script is naturally beautiful, and I think
Abedini's compositions, with text often a central graphic element, are
incredibly fresh and emotional. Today, my friend Anne Sanger sent me a
link to a great "Who's Who in Iranian Posters" page with links to even
more information about the country's happening graphic design scene.
Link
"Iranian Truth"
"Iranian Truth"
12/28/2003 08:54 AM
Iranian Blogs
Iranian Blogs
02/19/2004 10:03 AM
Iran's blogging boom defies media control: There's an
opportunity here for me to spew some long-winded treatise about how
blogging is changing the world...but I'll just label this one as
"pretty cool" and call it good.
Take one exasperated Iranian woman. Add a computer. Hook
it up to the Internet. "And you have a voice in a country where it's
very hard to be heard," said Lady Sun, the online identity of one of
the first Iranian women to start a blog...
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Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group
bl0g, and bl0g of the year!
Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group
bl0g, and bl0g of the year!
03/14/2005 05:29 PMXeni Jardin:
Boing Boing pal
Scott Beale informs us that our blog just won
Group Weblog of the Year at the
Bloggies. OMG! What a huge honor! Thank you, Bloggies. We honestly
didn't expect this, and we are deeply moved and grateful. There were
many other deserving blogs up for awards, backed by talented folks who
work very hard, and we raise our collective pirate-eye-patches in
their honor:
check 'em all
out. On behalf of my blog-mates
Cory Doctorow,
Mark Frauenfelder, and
David Pescovitz; our wise "band manager"
John Battelle; our sysadmin
par excellence Ken Snider; and the rest of the team and extended
family that makes Boing Boing possible -- a humble thank you. But most
of all, we are grateful to you, our readers, for wasting otherwise
productive time on our collective scrapbook of "wonderful things," and
for pointing us to even more of those wonderful and undiscovered
things each day. We're really sorry that we couldn't make it to
SXSW in person to accept the award,
but we hope you'll join us in celebrating in person tomorrow at
ETCON (
all five of us will be in the same place for the first time).
Boing Boing sprouted online a little over
five years ago, from paper zine roots planted by Mark Frauenfelder
and
Carla
Sinclair. It is a privilege to blog for you. With you, we look
forward to another adventurous year of link-discuss to come.
Link
Update: Holy crap! Reader Nathaneal Heasley
sez, "Not only did BB win best group ‘blog, it won “blog of the
year/best weblog overall†– congratulations!" For those keeping
track, this is the second year in a row Boing Boing has received these
two awards: Link to 2004, Link to 2005. Man. We're
speechless, and overwhelmed by your generosity.
Iranian cafe for bl0ggers
Iranian cafe for bl0ggers
11/02/2003 09:46 PM
From Hossein Derakhshan's
blog:
"I'm not sure if there is any Cafe for bloggers in other cities, but
there is one in Tehran. Actually it's recently opened in a northern
area of Tehran and Ive heard that it's quite popular among Tehranian
bloggers. It's called Cafe Blog
and based on the website, they held some basic technical workshops for
their members. There
are some photos from
their opening on their website."
Link (thanks Jean-Luc)
Bush Says U.S. Will Look Into Possible
Iranian Ties to 9/11
Bush Says U.S. Will Look Into Possible
Iranian Ties to 9/11
07/19/2004 03:23 PMThe ties reportedly will be included in the Sept. 11 commission's
final report, which is scheduled for release on Thursday.
Help Iranian quake survivors
Help Iranian quake survivors
12/30/2003 06:34 PM Iran
quake death toll hits 50,000. 150,000 survivors are homeless,
hungry, and freezing. They really need your immediate help.
$110 can provide a tent for a family of five
$
60 can provide drinking water to 30 people
$
45 can provide space heaters to three families
$
25 can provide blankets to a family of five
Mercy Corps has raised
$188,397 so far, but this is far from enough.
Cracking Iranian codes
Cracking Iranian codes
06/15/2004 10:17 AMBruce
Schneier has written an interesting article discussing the
accusation of Ahmed Chalabi of informing Iran that the US had broken
its codes and when Iran knew that the NSA was cracking their codes. He
digs into the history of Crypto AG, the NSA and Iran. He links to an
article about Hans
Buehler, the Crypto AG salesman who was arrested by Iran in 1992
on suspicion that Crypto AG had installed back doors in its encryption
machines. There is no conclusion, but this story reminds me of Crytonomicon and the
interesting world of information, misinformation and spying.
Pictures of Iranian bl0ggers
Pictures of Iranian bl0ggers
12/02/2003 01:15 AM Pictures
from the Bloggers' stand in the first Web festival of in Tehran,
Iran, include some photos of Iranian female bloggers.
Iranian consul abducted in Iraq
Iranian consul abducted in Iraq
08/08/2004 09:22 PMAn Iranian diplomat is reported kidnapped in Iraq as interim Prime
Minister Iyad Allawi visits the holy city of Najaf.
Iranian diplomat is killed in Baghdad
Iranian diplomat is killed in Baghdad
04/15/2004 09:09 AMThoughts on Bam earthquake from Iranian
bl0ggers
Thoughts on Bam earthquake from Iranian
bl0ggers
12/28/2003 06:58 PM
The recent earthquake in Bam, Iran may have claimed as many as 40,000
lives by some estimates. Sorting through the Persian blogosphere,
you'll find a number of sites where residents and expatriates are
posting about this tragedy, and its impact on their country's future.
Hossein Derakshan has
yet to sound out on his English-language site, but there's a post on
his Farsi blog for those who read
Farsi. Among the English-language sites where posts are already out:
Persianblogger.com,
Pesmanesque, Days of My Life In
California, Iranian
Truth, Iranfilter, Eyeranian, HumanFirstT
henaProudIranian. Many more are listed here, including blogs
written in Farsi (there are probably more than 12,000 of them -- here
is a good background piece on the Persian blogosphere, from
Wired News). And finally, Doug Rushkoff (not Persian) has this to say.
BoingBoing welcomes pointers to other sites
sounding out on the Bam earthquake via this form.
"Iranian President Talks about Webl0gs "
"Iranian President Talks about Webl0gs "
12/15/2003 10:29 PMIranian cleared of judo 'boycott'
Iranian cleared of judo 'boycott'
08/19/2004 09:43 AMIran escapes censure over the failure of its judo world champion to
fight an Israeli at the Olympics.
Iranian nuclear plans 'unclear'
Iranian nuclear plans 'unclear'
09/14/2004 11:10 AMThe UN nuclear agency says it needs more time to decide whether Iran
has a nuclear weapons programme.
Iranian Airliner Crashes in Emirates
(AP)
Iranian Airliner Crashes in Emirates
(AP)
02/10/2004 04:43 AMAP - An Iranian airliner with about 60 people aboard crashed Tuesday
shortly after taking off from Sharjah airport in the United Arab
Emirates, according to television reports that showed flaming wreckage
and rescue helicopters landing nearby.
Iranian plane crashes in Emirates
Iranian plane crashes in Emirates
02/10/2004 05:19 AMAn Iranian airliner crashes near Sharjah airport in the United Arab
Emirates with up to 60 people on board.
43 Killed As Iranian Plane Crashes in
UAE
43 Killed As Iranian Plane Crashes in
UAE
02/10/2004 09:15 AMAn Iranian airliner with 60 people aboard crashed Tuesday shortly
after taking off from Sharjah airport in the United Arab Emirates.
Iranian Train Explosion Kills at Least
195
Iranian Train Explosion Kills at Least
195
02/19/2004 12:11 AMA train carrying chemicals and fuel derailed, caught fire and exploded
in northeastern Iran, killing at least 195 people.
Iranian dissident freed on bail
Iranian dissident freed on bail
07/31/2004 01:59 PMDissident Hashem Aghajari, originally sentenced to death for
blasphemy, is released on bail.
Images of Iranian actresses say a lot
about the social changes
Images of Iranian actresses say a lot
about the social changes
03/09/2004 12:09 AM
Iranian actress, Hedieh Tehrani, is one of the most popular
stars who, unlike the previous actresses, usually portrays a strong
and independent women in her works (
See more). On the other side is
Niki Karimi who once was the hottest actress in the
country, showing a rather traditional image of the Iranian women. What
is this change of taste telling about the Iranian society?
See more stills from Iranian movies.
nice AP piece on iranian bl0gs
nice AP piece on iranian bl0gs
02/19/2004 02:12 PMcongrats to pedram and hoder for being recognized for their work
Iranian Pro-Reform Newspapers Silenced
Iranian Pro-Reform Newspapers Silenced
02/19/2004 12:41 PMHard-liners reined in the media on the eve of elections in which they
are expected to regain control of parliament.
Iranian President Talks about Webl0gs
Iranian President Talks about Webl0gs
12/12/2003 02:15 AMWow, someone asked the Iranian president about blogging. Here's
coverage on Ali
Parvaresh and Jeff
Jarvis' weblog.
Iranian bl0ggers rally against
censorship
Iranian bl0ggers rally against
censorship
12/12/2003 07:58 AMle rapportait la BBC hier .. a
protest
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3310493.stm
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Iranian underground music awards
Iranian underground music awards
01/10/2004 03:28 PM Second Iranian
underground music awards participants: They can't publish their
records or play in public because of the Islamic government's fear of
Rock music. There are hundreds of underground Rock bands in Iran right
now. Christian Science Monitor has
the story
of one of them.
"
Chalabi 'Boasted of Iranian Spy Link'"
"
Chalabi 'Boasted of Iranian Spy Link'"
05/26/2004 07:51 PMKidnapped Iranian diplomat freed
Kidnapped Iranian diplomat freed
09/27/2004 10:47 AMAn Iranian diplomat who was seized in Iraq last month is freed, but
the fate of other hostages is unclear.
Grok Description matches for Iranian Blog Crackdown
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Those Sexy Iranians
Those Sexy Iranians
05/11/2004 10:54 AMphoto
from Hoder's photo blog |
The New York Times
Those
Sexy Iranians
...True, girls and women can still be imprisoned for going out
without proper Islamic dress. But young people are completely
redefining such dress so it heightens sex appeal instead of smothering
it.
Women are required to cover their hair and to wear either a chador
cloak or an overcoat, called a manteau, every time they go out, and
these are meant to be black and shapeless. But the latest fashion here
in Shiraz, in central Iran, is light, tight and sensual.
"There are some manteaus with slits on the sides up to the
armpits," said Mahmoud Salehi, a 25-year-old manteau salesman. "And
then there are the `commando manteaus,' with ties on the legs to show
off the hips and an elastic under the breasts to accentuate the
bust."
Worse, from the point of view of hard-line mullahs, young women in
such clothing aren't getting 74 lashes any more — they're
getting dates.
Iranian
blogger Hoder has started
a photo
blog and some of the recent images show us what they're talking
about.
Persian photobl0g: Those Sexy Iranians
Persian photobl0g: Those Sexy Iranians
05/10/2004 03:02 PMHossein Derakshan says, "I've
launched my photoblog, titled "vagrantly." Here's the latest image
post, about the Islamic dress code and
Nicholas Kristof's New York
Times column this weekend about 'sexy Iranians.'"
No one has challenged the
cleric's rule more effectively than these young Iranian girls. They
have totally changed the Islamic dress code during the past five
years. The half-sliced heads of the mannequins are results of Islamic
laws that prohibit making identical statues to humans.
Link to Hoder's photoblog post. And coincidentally, BoingBoing's
own Cory says from the U.K., "Spotted at the Brick Lane Bengali new
year's festivities in London: a little girl in a couture Calvin Klein
headscarf."
Link to 80K
jpeg image.
Iranian Crisis Deepens As Elections Near
(AP)
Iranian Crisis Deepens As Elections Near
(AP)
01/18/2004 10:26 PMAP - Iran's hard-line Guardian Council on Sunday defended its
disqualification of prospective candidates for next month's
parliamentary elections, further deepening a political crisis.
Iranian hardliner nearing victory
Iranian hardliner nearing victory
06/24/2005 07:04 PMUltra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is near to a convincing win in
Iran's election, officials say.
Iranian Blogs challenge President
Iranian Blogs challenge President
12/11/2003 11:53 PM Iranian
bloggers challenge the President in the Summit: It all started
from a post on the
Geneva
Summit's blog, DailySummit, asking Iranians
to report on the Net censorship. Then, they asked
them to post
their questions for the Iranian President,
who was going to have a press conference. Then reporters asked the
questions from the president:
Is the there a blacklist for Iranian websites? Do you read Persian weblogs? How hard is it to connect to the Net in
Iran? Later they asked
tougher questions from the Minister of
Telecommunications: Why don't they public the blacklist? Why Sina
Motallebi, the blogger, was arrested? Isn't the summit about how
technolo
gy benefits democracy and human rights? Blogs can definitely be a
big part of the answer.
Iranian Blog Crackdown
