A Map of Iran's Blogosphere

I found this report linked on the Wikinomics blog. John Kelly and Bruce Etling of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society wrote a paper called Mapping Iran's Online Public. The report "analyzes the composition of the Iranian blogosphere and its possible impact on political and democratic processes."

This is what the Iranian blogosphere looks like:



I'm a fan of robust civic society wherever it can be found, so it's encouraging to see so much blogging activity in Iran. The authors write, "Given the repressive media environment in Iran today, blogs may represent the most open public communications platform for political discourse. The peer-to-peer architecture of the blogosphere is more resistant to capture or control by the state than the older, hub and spoke architecture of the mass media model."