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20 July 2003

Iranian authorities are keeping a close eye on blogs Iranian authorities are keeping a close eye on the Internet amid growing online access and the popularity of weblogs. One weblog under the name Hossein Derakhshan received 6,000 hits a day before the government blocked it, the Canadian-based author said in an e-mail to CNN. The site contains musings with titles like "Five Things to Help Non-Iranians Know More About Iran," political observations and links to news stories. "In absence of free papers, (weblogs) are performing an important role for spreading internal news that is very risky to publish in Iran," said Derakhshan. He added that weblogs help young people in Iran socialize, date and keep in touch with exiled friends, help emerging writers publish their work, produce Persian content on search engines, introduce surfers to new technology -- and allow access to pornography. Source: CNN This happened at 2:26:41 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback []

12 July 2003

RSS works again The RSS feed works again; it has been broken since April and after several support tickets and reinstalls of Radio Userland, it seems to be working again. Sorry for all of those that had subscribed but did not get updates.. This happened at 2:47:43 AM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback []