Hossein Derakhshan of “Hoder.com”:http://hoder.com/weblog/ has posted “his Powerpoint presentation on blogging in Iran”:http://hoder.com/weblog/archives/013982.shtml. Some interesting facts:
* *Total Population:* 70 million
* *Population Under thirty:* 70%
* *Internet users:* 4-5 millions
* *Media:* State monopoly and control
* *Active weblogs:* over 75,000
The article also links to “a Wikipedia article on Iranian blogs”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_blogs as well as an “index of Iranian blogs”:http://blogsbyiranians.com/ maintained by Hoder himself. These are some good resources for investing public opinion in Iran. Thanks Hoder!
PS. Hoder (who was “recently featured in BusinessWeek”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoder/sets/278750/) is very prolific and a few years ago started a blogging campaign against the Internet censorship in Iran called Stop Censoring Us (http://stop.censoring.us). Nice domain name! via “Aslan Hafezi”:http://www.hafezia.com/weblog/2003/12/stop-censoring-us-hossein-has-started.html
About Younghusband
Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) was a British explorer, army officer, military-political officer, and foreign correspondent born in India who led expeditions into Manchuria, Kashgar, and
Tibet. He three times tried and failed to scale Mt. Everest and journeyed from China to India, crossing the Gobi desert and the Mustagh Pass (alt. c.19,000 ft/5,791 m) of the Karakoram mountain range in modern day Pakistan. Convinced of Russian designs on British interests in India, Younghusband proactively engaged in the nineteenth century spying and conflict over Central Asia between the British and the Russians known as the Great Game.
"Younghusband" is a Canadian who has spent a number of years bouncing back and forth between his home country and Japan. Fluent in Japanese and English with experience in numerous other languages from Spanish to Georgian, Younghusband has travelled throughout Asia. He graduated with an MA from the War Studies Department at the
Royal Military College of Canada, where he focussed on the Japanese oil industry and energy security issues. He has recently returned to Canada from Japan, and is working in the technology sector.
I read that Persians make up 50% of the Iranian population. Does this apply to youth as well, or are they disproprotinately either Persian or non-Persian?
After English, Farsi is the second most common language in the RSF blog awards and the Iran category is huge.
Yes, I have read that Farsi is the 3rd or 4th used language on the Internet. The number of internet bars and pirate sattelite dishes in Iran was astounding. But even so, many average Iranians have problems trusting _any_ information that they don’t hear from close friends or family.
As for Dan’s question, I have not seen cross-indexed statistics relating the youth bulge to ethnicity. That would be a very fascinating report! I’ll see if I can’t dig a little up on it. If you see anything be sure to post it here.
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