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    <title>Welcome to our site: Iran's president is blogging</title>
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      <title>"Iran's president is blogging" by Why am I here</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Maybe if the Iranian President gets it off his chest in a blog it will lessen the possibilities of violence&amp;#8230; we can only hope.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;When asked whether or not he thought this was ironic, Mahmoud threatened to wipe the questioner off the map.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Nice job injecting some humor to this story&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Waih&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:22:23 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>"Iran's president is blogging" by VSelfridge</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Forward thinking &amp;#8211; great to see their PR / Campaign teams are catching the wave.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;In the US &amp;#8211; our President has a weekly radio address and periodic TV addresses (including the State of the Union) to update the nation. How long until those TV addresses are available as podcasts?&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;A blog from the leader of a nation (or even his PR team!) is a bit ambitious, however, in terms of time&amp;#8230; so I&amp;#8217;d be suprised if that idea takes off with other G8 nations.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:58:13 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.trabian.com/articles/2006/08/14/irans-president-is-blogging#comment-232</link>
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      <title>Iran's president is blogging</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4790005.stm"&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;BBC&lt;/span&gt; reported today&lt;/a&gt; that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has started &lt;a href="http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/"&gt;his very own blog&lt;/a&gt;. His inaugural article, posted Friday,&amp;nbsp;is an autobiography. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He has also included a poll asking his readership if the US and Israel are trying to spark World War 3. That&amp;#8217;s nice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is kind of funny (not &amp;#8220;haha&amp;#8221; funny, just funny) because Iran&amp;#8217;s media control initiatives include what the &lt;span class="caps"&gt;BBC&lt;/span&gt; refers to as &amp;#8220;one of the most sophisticated internet censorship programs in the world.&amp;#8221; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When asked whether or not he thought this was ironic, Mahmoud threatened to wipe the questioner off the map.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On a separate but related note, German Chancellor Angela Merkel &lt;a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008615.php"&gt;started podcasting&lt;/a&gt; a few months ago.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Talk amongst yourselves.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:04:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>brent@trabian.com (Brent Dixon)</author>
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