Kamangir (Archer)

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Kamangir is Back

By Kamangir • Jul 4th, 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 [...]



Persian Blogosphere: On the Verge of Adolescence

By Kamangir • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Didish, Features, Lead Story

I 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 [...]

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Analyzing the Persian Blogosphere: New Results

By Kamangir • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Didish, Features, Iran, Lead Story

Although, recently I have been quiet about my blogging projects, including Didish and Feed Counter, I have been steadily working on the twins.
The aggregation module in Didish is now a local tool, as opposed to the previously-used web-based Gregarius which was strangling Kamangir’s host as the number of links grew bigger. The project’s interface [...]



Important Notice about Project Didish

By Kamangir • Mar 4th, 2008 • Category: Didish

Before referring to the results of project Didish, the analysis of links shared by Persian bloggers, do make sure you have read this page. Please send me an email in case you have any question.



Connection Graph of the Persian Blogosphere

By Kamangir • Feb 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Didish, Features, Lead Story

On February 16th, I published a report on the statistics of the Persian blogosphere (see: Statistics of the 100 Hottest Persian Blogs/Websites). That report, as well as this one, are all results of project “Didish?”. In this report, not only we’ll take a look at the hottest Persian sources on the web, but also the [...]



Statistics of the 100 Hottest Persian Blogs/Websites

By Kamangir • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Didish, Features, Lead Story

This post is another, much more extensive, report about the results of project “Didish?”. In short, in “Didish?” I gather information about the most liked Persian blogs/websites. For more information please refer to the post “Statistics of the Persian Blogosphere, a Report“.
As a companion to the previous post, here, you can acquire detailed information about [...]



Statistics of the Persian Blogosphere, a Report

By Kamangir • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Didish, Features, KiBeKi, Lead Story

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 [...]



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.