World View

Activists Face Obstacles Online in Winning Women's Rights in Iran

by Lucie Morillon

Women in Iran have learned to unleash the Internet's potential to promote freedom. In the country that has, according to the OpenNet Initiative, experienced the most explosive online growth in the Middle East, the Internet has become a battleground between a repressive regime and the increasingly active feminists demanding the end of legal discrimination against women. Women activists, who...

• September 16, 2008
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Weblogs

Being a BlogHim at BlogHer Conference

by Mark Glaser

SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Compared to last month's fiesty, combative BloggerCon IV conference in San Francisco, the BlogHer conference here is almost a revival meeting of mutual support and warm emotion. During the jam-packed opening session today, BlogHer organizer Elisa Camahort had women come to the stage to describe how blogging had changed their lives. With each personal story, the audience applauded or laughed along.

• July 29, 2006
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