Friday, December 23, 2005

Gooooood Morning, Weblogistan!

By Pajamas Media staff in Barcelona.

More than 100,000 active weblogs in Iran -may be undermining, or at least are relieving, the mullahs' grip on the population, particularly among the educated, techno-friendly young generations, writes Ben MacIntyre in London's The Times today.

According to the article, Farsi has become the second most used language in the blogosphere even ahead of French, and Weblogistan -that's how Iranians call it- has become an oasis "of noisy and irreverent free speech."

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