Friday, July 4, 2008 
Unfortunately, I missed Part 3 of this event, which was a live video conference with Khorshid Khanoom (aka Lady Sun), so if anyone has any intel on what happened, please leave a comment or shoot me a note: editorATparsartsDOTcom.
I’m on a shaky road, typing on someone else’s laptop, so I’ll write a longer post on […]
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Change of schedule - Iranian.com will be part 2 of the day, not Balatarin. Nazy Kaviani is going to read a statement by Persis Karim, who couldn’t make it today. Karim’s letter talks about Jahanshah Javid’s role in the making of the Iranian diaspora via his foresight regarding the role of the Internet.
Kaviani is now […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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It’s 9:48… I’ve just spent 5 hours in a car and am drinking black tea as we’re all waiting for this to start… looks like they’re still setting up, still putting posters on the wall, and I’ve just met Haji Agha, who kindly told me that he’s linked to this coverage… hi, readers in Iran! […]
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Bebin.tv has revamped their site since the last time I checked out the site, and it looks great! It features more content, including a blog, embeddable videos, RSS feeds and it works on Macs. Nice work, Bebin! I love this cooking segment on Kaleh Pacheh:
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Filed under: FOOD, INTERNET, IRANIAN MEDIA, RESOURCES, VIDEOS
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