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Thursday, June 19, 2003

AZADI, ARAK, ESHGH! It's called a blog burst, Andrew, and to my knowledge the first blogger to organize one was Joe Katzman, who is offering to coordinate this one. But I'm glad Andrew discovered it and it's a great idea. Let's flood the zone with posts about the Iranian struggle for democracy, whisky, sexy.

UPDATE: The folks at Winds of Change are doing their part with a huge collection of links about the ongoing student-led rebellion in Iran (plus a cute banner you can put on your website, with what is turning out to be the bloggers' slogan for the Iranian campaign - not sure what the Iranians themselves think of it). Half of these links are to Iranian blogs, so you can read for yourself what Iranians think and want for their country.

Jeff Jarvis, who has been following the Iranian rebellion for weeks, also has a large collection of links. In this post in particular Jeff is giving air time to a number of Iranian bloggers who have nothing good to say about the MKO (the group whose members publicly immolated themselves this week to protest the regime in Iran).