Gefunden bei Tagesschau.de: Weblogs in Iran: Wenn Untertanen zu persönlich werden.

Der iranische Vize-Präsident, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, führt ein Weblog....auch auf Englisch.

http://webnevesht.com/en/weblog/

Die vollständige Homepage gibt's unter: http://webnevesht.com/en/

[Via: Buzzmachine - Jeff Jarvis resp. Editor: Myself- Hossein Derakhshan ]

New Kids on the Blog bietet "nur ganz frische Weblogs", was durchaus wörtlich zu nehmen ist:

maximal 30 Tage alt

mindestens 2 Artikel

maximal 20 Artikel

http://newkidsontheblog.de/

[Via: Noch'n Blog resp. Moe's Blog ]

Halte nicht viel von Vorsätzen,....aber dennoch...

Wie wäre es im 2004 mit einem CH-twoday-blogger-treff?

Citadel and mud city of Bam

Im Weblog Iranian Truh berichtet Natasha Behbahany über das Erdbeben in Iran und listet u.a. Blogger-Reaktionen (inkl. Blog-Links) auf:

Blogger Reactions

- Faramin: don't know if I should be sad or angry!...Even for one second don't think Rafsanjani and the rest of regime criminals care.

- Mohammad: Which of the following facts upset and shock you more? Arg-e-Bam the oldest and largest mud-brick citadel (and actually structure) in the world -built 2000 years ago and mainly expanded in the heyday of the Savafid dynasty (in16th Century)- being destroyed by today's earth quake. Or the casualty of almost 4000 of our fellow countrymen and women belonging to the poorest class of the Iranian society? Condolences to the victims of the today's quake

- Ehson: A deadly earthquake took place at a city in my country ,killed many people and wounded much more. I can hear the voice of death , it's close and it's whispering in my ears .His voice is dramatically scaring . I don't know where are the dead ones. Really , where are they now?!

- Mehrdad: I always wanted to travel to Bam which is the biggest mud-brick complex in the world

- Ali Parvaresh: I hope this would be a BIG LIE.

- Pedram: Meanwhile, prey if you are religious, meditate if you're spiritual, send positive vibes if you are neither. Whatever you do, keep these victims from one of the most underprivileged and deprived region of Iran in your thoughts today and think of ways to send them some help.

- Negar: I'm writing this with tears rolling down my face. I woke up not long ago and the second sentence I heard was the news of Kerman's quake. I'm crying like a baby not because up to 10000 of my people have died but for the ancient city I never saw. For the city that I longed to see and it's not there anymore. For the wish that never came true. For all my wishes that may never come true.

Quelle: http://www.iraniantruth.blogspot.com/

[Nachtrag 29.12.2003]

Via BBC, I just found out:
Nobel Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi (who recently donated her $1.4 million Award to promote democracy and Human rights in Iran) has opened an account to raise money for the earthquake victims. I would strongly recommend this as a trusted alternative (perhaps via relatives in Iran)

Here is the address:
Shirin Ebadi
Account No. 8080, Saderat Bank,
Tehran,
Yousef-abad Ave, Kalantary square Branch

[Via: http://www.humanfirstthenproudiranian.blogspot.com/ ]

John Perry Barlow hat ein Blog eröffnet: BarlowFriendz.

I've been wary of blogs. Starting a blog looks a little like signing up for treadmill duty. Unless you like to write better than I do - and, personally, I'd rather pump septic tanks - consigning yourself to writing something every day looks like voluntary servitude. Furthermore, when I read some of the discussions on blogs, it looked a little like what you'd get if you invited all of your most socially dysfunctional friends into your living room and gave them plenty of beer.

Na dann prost und Herzlich Wilkommen ;-) http://barlow.typepad.com/barlowfriendz/

Interessanter Artikel von Rebecca Blood im Guardian Unlimited:

A weblog is something fundamentally new. Something no one can quite put their finger on, not yet. And those who try to define the phenomenon in terms of current institutions are completely missing the point.

Consider the average weblog. Maintained by an unpaid enthusiast, this site will be updated perhaps a dozen times a day with links to interesting news stories and entries on other weblogs, accompanied by a few lines - or paragraphs - of commentary. A blogger interested in current events may include links to several accounts of one event, noting differences in tone or detail, another may post the occasional recipe or pictures from a recent trip.

A blogger may have a thousand readers, but more likely a few hundred or a couple of dozen, some of whom will offer comments of their own, right on the site. The weblog is at once a scrapbook, news filter, chapbook, newsletter, and community.

This is not passive news consumption. Neither is it broadcasting. The average blogger has time to surf the web, but no resources to report stories. Some bloggers will follow a news story to the end, some may lose interest after a few days. Commentary will range from the fully-formed to the random blurt and can freely mix the public and the personal.

All this represents something new: participatory media. And it matters. Not because of its resemblance to familiar institutions, but because of its differences from them.

Weblogs are just too varied, too idiosyncratic, to fit into an existing box. Industry analysts might call this disruptive technology because weblogs have changed personal publishing so profoundly that the old rules no longer apply. We are at the beginning of a new age of online publishing - and I predict that this generation of online pamphleteers is just the first wave.

Hier weiterlesen beim Guardian Unlimited : Rebecca Blood: The revolution should not be eulogised

BLOG-IRAN was an idea that arose from the minds of Activists, Bloggers and Web Surfers who were all strong supporters of the Iranian struggle for freedom and had grown tired not only of the lack of attention being given to the movement in the mass media, but also the lack of public awareness and knowledge on the subject. Backed by the desire to spread truth and awareness about a people suffering incredible injustices and the will to answer the Iranian cry for freedom, these activists formulated BLOG-IRAN, a grassroots movement supported by bloggers, activists and web surfers from around the world.

The BLOG was selected as the medium for this grassroots project because it has become one of the world's most free forms of expression. "Blog-Iran" is the link between every blogger that supports the Iranian movement for freedom.

http://www.activistchat.com/blogiran/
Und auch : http://www.activistchat.com/blogiran/unitedblogs.html

[Nachtrag 18.12. 1900] Zum besagten Thema einen interessanten Artikel in der Seatle Times gefunden: Matt Rosenberg als Gastkolumnist:The blogs of freedom

Now more than ever, the fresh voices of Iraqi bloggers will be an invaluable counterweight to traditional media coverage. In the weeks and months to come, turn to them for crucial, first-person insights on this unfolding, and uplifting, birth of a democracy.

Iranian government has started to filter popular weblogs and websites in Iran, while the Internet was literally the only free medium Iranians could access. The goal of this weblog is to provide official and unofficial news about Internet censorship in Iran and encourage International observers and activists to fight for the freedom of information in Iran.

Sehr lesenswert! ;-)

http://stop.censoring.us/
.....und perfekte URL !)

Wunderbarer Artikel von Gerald Heidegger bei Telepolis:

Zieht man etwa Krausens gedruckte "Fackel" und das Weblog des bekannten US-Journalisten Andrew Sullivan (um ein Beispiel von vielen möglichen zu nennen) heran, so kann man auffallend viele Ähnlichkeiten zwischen beiden Unternehmungen feststellen. In beiden Fällen produziert ein Autor ein Medium und vertritt dieses vor allem über seine Person nach außen.

Die Erscheinungsform des Mediums entspricht jeweils der publizistischen Themenlage bzw. den Lebensumständen einer Person (Phasen intensiven Publizierens können mit Zeiträumen publizistischer Abstinenz abwechseln).

Zentrales Charakteristikum des jeweiligen Projekts ist eine Poetik der Polemik: Die Texte entstehen aus der direkten Auseinandersetzung mit dem publizistischen Gegenüber. Angriffe werden immer ad personam geführt, die Schwächen des Gegenübers ausführlich vorgeführt, die Texte des Gegners in großer Deutlichkeit bloßgestellt. Im Prinzip ist die bei Kraus eingesetzte Satire im Weblog aktueller denn je: Der fremde Text wird über das Zitat bloßgestellt, Zitat und Kommentar fügen sich zu einer neuen Textur.
(...)
Im Sinne einer Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie wird das patchworkartige Arbeiten, das sich im breiten Feld der Informationen vernetzt und die scheinbaren Originalitätsansprüche bei Seite lässt, durchsetzen. Autoren im Stile Kraus' werden sich etablieren, die das Kollagieren und das pointierte Zuspitzen bereits vorliegender Materialien beherrschen, die bereits vorhandenem Material eine neue Ordnung bzw. Stoßrichtung geben. In der Community des Web ist freilich der Leser schon wieder Redakteur. Insofern brennt im Netz mehr als eine Fackel.

Hier weiterlesen: Karl Kraus und die Blogger [Via: Telepolis ]