e-Claire

Deed-o Bazdeed

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

Blogging has taken us one *huge* step further down the road to recognizing that we are members of the same village. We *are* us. The real *them* probably have blue tentacles and breathe chlorine. (Or maybe the real *them* are viruses... viri? I have the sniffles and have been *invaded* by *them* !)

Wherever Humans go, whatever humans do, we do it like Humans. Oddly, it sometimes comes as a surprise when we embark on a *new* enterprise that the accustomed modes and manners will follow. For good or for ill, "wherever we go, there we are." And, yet, we continue to be surprised by blog-wars, flamers, trolls, and people who 'shave' the rules, and people who can't admit they are in over their head. Each time we think, "gee, this time I've moved into a *good* neighborhood." No. People do people stuff.

Today, I learned from Persian Blogger, Alireza, about the custom of reciprocal visiting called deed-o bazdeed, literally, "seeing and re-seeing."

1. Thank you for this post Claire. Beautiful and insightful as always.
   Now on to fixing TrackBack. I never realized I didn’t have it until you made the comment. But now I’m glad I missed it.

   Posted by Alireza  on  06/10/03  at  12:43 PM

2. Getting the category to appear is quite simple actually (once you figure it out that is!!). All you need to do is to insert this string anywhere you want the category to appear:

   “>
   <a>"></a>

   
   In my case, I wanted it to be just before the “Posted by Alireza at...” so I put it within within . Here’s what (part of) the code looks like embedded with the stuff around it:

   
   <a>"></a>

   Posted by at <a>"></a>

   
   Notice that there is one small “space” between and Posted, so that the category doesn’t stick to posted. Hope this helps.

   Posted by Alireza  on  06/11/03  at  05:23 AM

3. Oops. That comment got totally trashed. I uploaded a jpg file with brief instructions to my web. Just click my name below.

   Posted by Alireza  on  06/11/03  at  05:40 AM

4. Salam (Hi)
   I’m Alireza’s online friend.
   I read about u in his blog and it was interesting for to me to know an American’s point of view to our native cutoms.
   ur writing was useful for me and thank u.

   Sherif of Weblogestan

   Posted by kalantar  on  06/12/03  at  05:53 PM

5. Welcome, Kalanatar.  I am also interested in an Iranian’s point of view on our native customs here in America.  I hope you comment often to tell us your views.  I wish I could read Persian so that I could read your blog.  Perhaps I will need to study…

   Posted by Claire  on  06/13/03  at  06:59 AM

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