Kamangir (Archer)

Kamangir is Back

Kamangir | July 4, 2008 | Category Blogging, Didish, Features, Iran, Lead Story

The date on the last post in this blog used to read “June the 13th” for almost a month. This was quite a change for this blog, which used to be updated more than once on almost every day for over two years. Things had changed, but better, less tense, days are ahead.

First, there was my studies. I finally did my Candidacy Exam on yesterday (the first step toward becoming Dr. Kamangir). It was a success, well almost, and I will have a lot more free time before defending my thesis, which is completely irrelevant to the stuff I post here (see more about my thesis in here).

Second, following a lot of discussions, and deliberations of course, I had shifted a lot of the time I spend blogging to the Persian companion of this blog. The reason is that, put briefly, what will bring the regime to its knees is not the CNN or FoxNews bashing it. It is the Iranians who are the problem, and the solution at the same time. It was in the news a week ago that a brother strangled and then stabbed his sister because she asked for the permission to get married to a man the family did not like. This, unfortunately, did not happen on the surface of Mars. It happened right before our eyes. The problem is not Ahmadinejad. The problem is the Iranian youth who argue “Well, we have different values”. To deal with these “values”, the language is Persian, not English.

Third, I am spending a lot of time on my projects on the Persian blogosphere. Didish and Feedcounter are becoming benchmarks Persian bloggers use to compare each other against. With that, today is in fact the day I am launching project “Persian Blogger Profiler” or in short “Profiler”. The aim of this project is to collect all the information I have gathered from the Persian blogosphere into one relational database. The data collected through this project will be used for producing the larger graph of connections, friendships, and interactions in the Persian Blogosphere.

So, Kamangir is back and, as we say in Persian, I’ll be keeping the lights on (sort of implying that I will be posting more regularly).