Armenians blog their way to 2007 elections
I’ve just found that NowPublic.com have posted a story on the development of blogging in Armenia in time for the 2007 parliamentary election. It seems that Mary Joyce’s post as well as news that we’ll translate the Election Blogging Guide into Armenian has attracted the attention of many e-democracy pundits outsde of Armenia.
Thanks to Global Voices I have discovered a significant project called the Election Blogging Guide. Armenia of course was part of the Soviet bloc which discouraged corrupt forms of bourgeois democracy such as blogging.* The elections are scheduled for May 12, 2007.
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* OK, so there was no blogging available to anybody during the Cold War. That’s a minor quibble.
The full story is here.
