Kamangir (Archer)

Through analyzing links shared by Persian bloggers, I regularly search for the hottest points in the Persian blogosphere (a brief introduction to the methodology is given in here, for more information please send me an email or leave a comment). This report is based on 171 sources and over 30,000 shared links. The Persian translation of this post can be found in here.

The following graph shows the ten top-most blogs/websites in terms of the number of shared links.

1. bbc.co.uk
2. radiozamaaneh.com
3. 1pezeshk.com
4. persian.kamangir.net
5. updateblog.net
6. nikahang.blogspot.com
7. dw-world.de
8. freekeyboard.net
9. asriran.com
10. oldestfashion.blogspot.com

The list is similar to the results published about ten days ago, except for the presence of the Persian blog oldestfashion. Furthermore, there is now a close-to-state website (asriran) in the list. Interestingly, no state-run source has made it to the list and Persian BBC and Radio Zamaneh are still on top.

The list of servers is identical to the one published before, and therefore will not be published here.

While the above chart considers the number of links shared from each blog/website, another measure could be the number of sources which share links from each blog/website. The following chart shows the ten top-most blogs/websites from this point of view.

1. 1pezeshk.com
2. freekeyboard.net
3. radiozamaaneh.com
4. updateblog.net
5. bamdadi.com
6. bbc.co.uk
7. persian.kamangir.net
8. asroone.net
9. 9blog.wordpress.com
10. zangoole.com

This list shows that while more links from Radio Zamaneh and BBC are shared, two Persian blogs of 1pezeshk and freekeyboard seem to be followed by more users.

The last chart looks at the correlation of the two charts shown in the above.

Similar to any research, these are preliminary results and need to be verified by more extensive deliberation. The author is ready to share the methodology and the results with any serious researcher, given that the privacy of the bloggers is guaranteed.