Wired News: Blogs Opening Iranian Society? My blog is a tool for my teaching, in that it operates like a friendly database, and I enjoy keeping up with threads or memes that will percolate into the mainstream. I never considered how it would be if a blog were my only form of expression. How interesting this idea is for the Iranians, and yet how fragile given that their government can monitor and repress their blogs. Our government can obviously monitor blogs in the USA, but unless it invokes the Patriot Act, it can't censor ours, or arrest us. What kind of free press might emerge in Iran based on this rise of blogs and interactive, one to one communication?