blogha-ye irani

I’m giggling at the title… If you’re persian, you know why. Picture in your head one of those persian commercials over-pronouncing the oaaaahhh in blooaaaag. And then “haaaaaa”. Funny. Almost as good as this guy’s article, “the Persian Blogestan.” You gotta love it. Plus he has some very detailed information about the phenomenon: persian bloggers taking over the world!!!!
Well, not quite. But they are a very active bunch - something that surprised me at first but then made total sense after I read a few theories as to why.
I know from my trip to Tehran how the people(especially the men) are. One guy caught a glimpse of my yahoo(yahoo is big over there since AOL is banned, of course) screenname while I was typing away in an internet cafe. I had a feeling somebody was watching over my shoulder, but I was still surprised when I got an instant message from the guy a week later. Let me just say, “verrrrry creeepy…” Of course my mother rejected that, contending that it’s the only way the poor guys have of meeting cute girls. Well…I guess that’s similar to the point they’re making now, as to why persians blog so much.
In any case, if you speak farsi, check out persianblog, and if not(English), check out blogsbyiranians.