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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Iranternet

I guess we're all learning a little bit about Iran's internet savviness because of the massive uprisings. It turns out that Iran's internet penetration is around 35% -- higher than the Middle East average of 26%. There are an estimated 60,000 active Persian blogs, with Farsi being the tenth most popular language in the entire blogosphere.

It's not the first time Iranians have displayed their technological know-how during a rebellion. Thirty years ago Ayatollah Khomeinei clandestinely sent cassette tapes of his seromons from his exile in France to Iranians, who would smuggle them in the country to copy and mass distribute them. It's what started the 1979 revolution.

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