So many posts on the blogosphere appear to reference other blogs. I have in fact done it already, after only having posted a few times. I don't think that it's particularly interesting to do this, although it does perhaps serve to promote the medium of blogging and draw links between otherwise fairly independent websites.

Well, it appears that my blogging debut has (give or take a few weeks) coincided with the decision by the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to begin blogging too. It appears in several languages including English and can be found here. We don't receive a great amount of information in the media about the Iranian government other than to bash it as being "hardline", "dangerous" or "wanting to wipe Israel off the map" (none of which I deny), but it will be interesting to see if the President's latest attempt to communicate with the western world fares any better than his previous attempt.