Kamangir (Archer)

You might know that I am currently working on a project called KiBeKi (project’s page). It is a research I started out of curiosity, but then as the databases grew I realized the value of the information it gathers. I am in touch with a few researchers who have requested to use this information for their work. I am ready to share this information with other serious researchers, given privacy concerns are met.

As of now, the robot has discovered 170,000 Persian blogs, 78,000 of which have been thoroughly analyzed and 94,000 others await in the queue. Since two weeks ago, the number of fully-processed blogs has increased by more than 500% but the length of the queue has remained almost unchanged. This might be an indicator that the system has reached the point of convergence i.e. the point where few new blogs are found. Though, the estimates point at numbers around 700,000 for the number of Persian blogs and thus I am not willing to draw any conclusion yet. The system has also discovered 50,000 email addresses on the analyzed blogs. These are email addresses used by Persian bloggers, and thus useful for analyzing their preferences.

Clearly, yahoo is the dominant choice for Persian bloggers, gmail is the next.

About three fourth of the Persian blogosphere is operating on Blogfa servers, according to the information collected so far. Please note that due to technical reasons, the robot only auto-detects Persian blogs based on the service they use, i.e. Persian blogs on blogspot, wordpress, and other services are not included in the analysis, yet. This however does not seem to invalidate the results because experience shows that Persian bloggers generally tend to prefer Iranian services to the likes of blogspot and wordpress.