Friday, July 4, 2008 
The photo blog Life Goes on in Tehran highlights ordinary Tehran life in an effort to dispel Western myths and poorly slanted media coverage about Iran. It has a very insider quality that makes you feel like you’re on your own Tehran visit. The man behind the site, 28-year-old Azad (last name withheld for reasons […]
Filed under: BLOGS, CULTURE, INTERNET, INTERVIEWS, INTERVIEWS WITH YOUNG IRANIANS, IRAN, PHOTOGRAPHY
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Iranian-American Paris Marashi is one of the few live bloggers at the PopTech conference. Check out her posts on her blog and at Sounds Iranian.
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Sorry to be brief and follow with another question, but I’m looking to populate my feed reader… do you have any recommendations?
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So it’s been more than a week since the Iranians on the Internet conference happened in SF, and here are my thoughts, which I’ve been mulling over pretty much all this time:
1. Could blogs be the best teach-yourself-more-Persian tool for Iranian hyphenates? I think so! Some of the bloggers read some really good writing, particularly […]
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Bayramali
Paiom’s blog, Bayramali mostly revolves around nostalgia, poetry, culture, arts, “tanz”… he’s reading a poem/blog post about blogging. (I wonder if this is posted on his blog? Update: here it is.) - now it’s open for questions:
(I should note that a man just walked in the room with a Persian rug over his shoulder, which […]
Filed under: BLOGS, EVENTS, INTERNET, IRANIAN MEDIA, IRANIANS ON THE INTERNET CONFERENCE
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Haji Agha kicks it off by talking about the Internet’s effect on society, particularly the democratizing nature of it in Iran… this is the first Iranian blogger/web guru gathering of its kind here in the United States.
The first part of this program will be about bloggers, the second about Balatarin, and the third about Iranian.com. […]
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Nazy Kaviani is introducing me to everyone here - thanks, Nazy! Just chatted with Omid Memarian, who’s going to be making the introductions when this starts. He is a journalism grad student at Berkeley. Most of the stuff I’d read by him was very Iran-politics oriented so I sort of assumed that was what he’s […]
Filed under: BLOGS, COMMUNITY, CULTURE, INTERNET, INTERVIEWS, IRANIAN MEDIA, IRANIANS ON THE INTERNET CONFERENCE
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