Thursday, December 26, 2002

> Hossein Derakhshan: 15 months after the first waves, Blogging seems to prove so popular among young Iranian boys and girls that now the number of Persian (or Farsi) weblogs has jumped to more than 9,000. Almost half of them are using Blogger.com's free service and other half are using a similar but more Persian-friendly online application, created by Iranian programmers, called Persianblog.com. Tomorrow, they are gathering in a big conference hall in Tehran to meet other colleagues and bloggers and to share what they've experienced during their lovely days of a rare thing in Iranian history: absolute freedom of expression.
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> Dave Winer: My father winked at me today. He has never done that before. Proving that he still has the ability to astonish.
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> Jeremy Zawodny: I just ran across everyone's favorite orange XML image on the Christian Science Monitor. Upon clicking on it, I came to a page listing all their RSS feeds. Nice. I subscribed to a few. I wish the other major news...
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> Brent Simmons: freshmeat.net now has a section for OS X software. I can't seem to find an RSS feed for this section—if anyone knows where it is, please let me know. Thanks!
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> Dictionary.com Word of the Day: doff
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