The dialogue about the political significance of blogs has died down in the U.S. following the party conventions but that's not the case in Iran. From Hossein Derakhshan:
A big campaign has been organized by Iranian bloggers to protest against the recent arrests and the violent crackdown on the Internet.The BBC has more. Spread the news. Posted by sarah at September 20, 2004 12:27 PM | TrackBackA big number of them have decided not only to copy the news from banned websites into their own blogs, but even to symbolically change the name of their blogs to "Emrooz", the banned website which still operates, on Monday.
Hundreds of Iranian bloggers have announced their support for the protest and the number is growing rapidly. However, the protest needs some publicity by Western media to be enough effective.