Iran and Blogs
A while back I had written a post, Blogs Breed Western Corruption, about blogs in Iran. The Iranian youth were having to fight hard to even have a voice.
An Online Journalism Review Article, Iranian Journalist Credits Blogs for Playing Key Role in His Release from Prison , tells how bloggers can make a difference, especially when they band together for a serious cause. Sina Motallebi, a jailed journalist/blogger, sparked an online petition drive demanding his freedom.
Quote from the article:
“Freedom is vital to Iran now and Weblogs are a means of freedom,” said blogger Jeff Jarvis, president of Advance.net, in an email to Sina Motallebi. “Beyond that, note that many of the Iranian Webloggers pushed their fellow bloggers to start writing in English so they could get their story out to the rest of the world. This is crating an amazing bridge, from person to person, nation to nation, media to media.”
Read the whole article - the world is changing and weblogs are getting voices heard in many places where freedom of speech has not existed. I hope more voices will continue to be heard.
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