Persian Blogosphere: On the Verge of Adolescence
By Kamangir • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Didish, Features, Lead StoryI had a presentation today in the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008 Conference, on a panel titled “Breaking the Silence: Iranians Find a Voice on the Internet“, about some of the results of the work I do on analyzing the Persian blogosphere (Project Didish).
My main argument in the talk was that the Persian blogosphere is now on the verge of adolescence and has well passed its infancy and childhood. To analyze this huge community, I argued, crude robot-based crawling methods do not yield meaningful results, due to the fact that splogs and seasonal blogs have cluttered the scene. To tackle the problem, then, I suggested using blogger-operated tools such as link sharing.
My slides are available at this address (PDF, 800KB). You can also go through the slides in this address, where slides are saved as individual snapshot images.
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Congratulations Arash, on what appears to be fine work. And I’ve come to understand the importance this is to you!
How did you feel that your presentation was received by other panelists, audience? (the 11th slide, I thought was amusing, until studied a bit more in detail- sorry… :- p )
Kamangir: Thanks! IT was good. I got some good feedback.