Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

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Ten Topmost Persian Blogs, and more

By Kamangir • Mar 5th, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Features, KiBeKi, Lead Story

The first report of project KiBeKi (Generation 1) is available. According to this report, the ten topmost websites in the Persian blogosphere are…



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.



My Interview with Global Voices

By Kamangir • Jan 18th, 2008 • Category: KiBeKi, Personal

What are the objectives of your research and how do you want to develop them?
First, I aim at finding the population of the Persian blogosphere and the connection pattern in there. This will only concern Persian blogs that exist, independent of their nature and frequency of update. Then, in the second phase, I’ll work on [...]



Statistics of 78,000 Persian Blogs - Report on KiBeKi’s results so far

By Kamangir • Jan 14th, 2008 • Category: Iran, KiBeKi

You might know that I am currently working on a project called KiBeKi (project’s page). It is a research I started out of curiosity, but then as the databases grew I realized the value of the information it gathers. I am in touch with a few researchers who have requested to use this information for [...]



A Robot for analyzing the Persian Blogosphere

By Kamangir • Dec 31st, 2007 • Category: Iran, KiBeKi, media

Starting last month, I have been working on a project which I have titled “KiBeKi“, or “What’s up?” in English. The project aims at developing a software robot which would crawl inside the Persian blogosphere in order to generate the connectivity graph of this dynamic place as well as to extract other information.
At this moment, [...]