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Iranian Blogger Sentenced to Prison

This sad and troubling news story reminds us not to take our freedom of expression for granted. I am referring to the 14 year prison sentence that the Iranian government gave to the blogger Arash Cigarchi. I know that many of you will join me in expressing solidarity for this brave writer. The story below is from the Human Rights Watch website. You can support groups like this to raise our voices against such actions. If anyone knows of other support efforts to help out in this situation, or in those of other bloggers in trouble for what they write, you can post them in the comments:

Iran: Blogger Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison: Government Broadens Its Crackdown on Freedom of Expression
 
(New York, February 24, 2005)--The Iranian government sentenced the prominent blogger Arash Cigarchi to 14 years in prison for expressing his opinions on the Internet and in the international press, marking a new low for freedom of expression in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today.
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posted by: howard at 15:58 | link | comments (3) |

News Feeds (RSS and Atom) are LIVE!!!

That's right, blog fans, mo'time now offers you syndication, also referred to as 'news feeds' or by the acronym of the most popular format, RSS (Really Simple Syndication)!

Go to your blog's editor: Blogs->Blog Tools->Syndication and choose "yes" for "Publish site feeds". That's it.

You must be using one of the new templates to use this feature, or else you have to add the special tag <$BlogFeeds$> to your template by hand. See the tag list for details.

Learn more about news feeds by reading here and here.

posted by: howard at 23:03 | link | comments (29) |

Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂

Get out your abacus! Chinese New Year (春節 Chūnjíe, 農曆新年 Nónglì Xīnnián or 過年 Gùonián), also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival, one of the traditional Chinese holidays, is celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, which falls on the day on which the second new moon after the day on which the winter solstice occurs, unless there is an intercalary eleventh or twelfth month in the lead-up to the New Year. In this case, the New Year falls on the third new moon after the Solstice. Kung hei fat choi everybody!

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posted by: howard at 19:59 | link | comments (6) |

"Read more" trick...

For any number of reasons, you may not want long posts to push down your previous posts so far down to the bottom of the page. In these cases, you can take advantage of this little trick to present the first part of your post as a teaser or abstract, and have the rest be read upon clicking a "Read more..." link.

Just type −−br−−  where you want the post to "break," and we'll do the rest automatically. You can change the graphic style of the "Read more..." link in the <style> section of your template. Look for the readmore style and modify it as you wish.

posted by: howard at 13:44 | link | comments (9) |

Manual v.3.0 online

 The new user manual which covers the relatively recent update to mo'time v.3.0 is now online. It is the first link under the "tips" menu on the right-hand side of your logged-in home page, AKA the Quick Launch page.

posted by: howard at 13:21 | link | comments |