Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

Archive for February 1st, 2008

Sir, I am not a Pig

By Kamangir • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Features, Human Rights, Iran, Regular Posts

The disgraceful action of an Iranian student in Canada caused a lot of very passionate discussions in the Persian blogosphere. Reportedly, the 25-year-old Ph.D. student of Memorial University, Newfoundland, has pleaded guilty for charges of sexually assaulting a lady in an elevator. On his defense he argued, “You can’t expect all males to control themselves when the breasts are out”. He also claimed to have been abused during his three-week preliminary confinement.


Quest for finding the Hottest Spots in the Persian Blogosphere

By Kamangir • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Didish, Features, KiBeKi, Regular Posts

You might know that since a few months ago I have been working on a robot which crawls through the Persian blogosphere (see: Statistics of 78,000 Persian Blogs - Report on KiBeKi’s results so far). A companion to this robot is another project I have been working on recently. I have given the name “Didish?” to this project (means “have you seen it?” in Persian).

Didish is a feed aggregator (installed at didish.kamangir.net), which archives the links Persian bloggers share through delicious, Google Reader, or other services. As of now, I have been able to find 163 sources. This chart shows which service the sharing is carried out through.