You might guess, our country Philippines? Because we ranked third in english speaking fluency. But actually this country is located somewhere in the middle east. That's a clue before you may google the answer. It ranks behind China and USA and has 700,000 blogs in 2005 and 100,000 actively maintained and still active today. Filipinos can't beat that because we're not fond of blogging but mostly into socializing and meeting new friends online like in Friendster and Multiply.
It took something exceptional to snap me out of my several-month blogging slump. I found this on twitter from @marshallk Iran: A Nation of Bloggers a powerful 2 minute video.
Half of Iran's population is under 25 and they are not happy with the oppressive regime. They blog about it, most anonymously for fear of imprisonment, but some are bold enough to speak out. I did not realize that Iran is the third largest blogger nation. Good stuff! Let Social media bring democracy to the masses, Obama style!
Check out these videos.
But some of their prominent bloggers like Hossein Derakhshan, known as "BlogFather" has been detained and arrested of espionage.
More infos in Rotten Gods. And you'll find the blogs of Iranians here in this website Blogs By Iranians.
It took something exceptional to snap me out of my several-month blogging slump. I found this on twitter from @marshallk Iran: A Nation of Bloggers a powerful 2 minute video.
Half of Iran's population is under 25 and they are not happy with the oppressive regime. They blog about it, most anonymously for fear of imprisonment, but some are bold enough to speak out. I did not realize that Iran is the third largest blogger nation. Good stuff! Let Social media bring democracy to the masses, Obama style!
Check out these videos.
But some of their prominent bloggers like Hossein Derakhshan, known as "BlogFather" has been detained and arrested of espionage.
More infos in Rotten Gods. And you'll find the blogs of Iranians here in this website Blogs By Iranians.
