Barb blogs for fun. Hossein blogs for real.

Blogs and blogging. Hossein D. who I met in Nashville, is the author of hoder.com. He might get arrested and tortured for blogging. I think blogging is important, but my ass is not on the line. Read on.

But last June the Iranian judiciary put in place a more sophisticated filtering system that blocks Iranian access to political Web sites and blogs. (Derakhshan's traffic immediately dropped by half.) Then in September, officials got serious, arresting, interrogating, and even jailing some of the country's bloggers, according to human rights groups. Two of those writers, Mojtaba Saminejad and Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdolahi, remain in prison.Wired 13.06: POSTS