Women Rule the Blogosphere!

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For French-speaking readers, Maroc.IT interviews blogger Larbi.org on the state of the Moroccan blogosphere.

Dernière remarque, et il s'€™agit là d'€'une surprise agréable, le nombre des bolggeuses marocaines dépasse légèrement celui des bloggeurs de sexe masculin. Je crois même que c'€™est le premier domaine ou les femmes de notre pays réussissent cet exploit. La parité parfaite, les marocaines l'€'ont rêvée, la blogoma l'€'a faite ! Et ça, c'est une révolution.

"A final comment, and it concerns an agreeable surprise, the number of women blogging in Morocco slightly exceeds the number of men. I think that is the first arena in which the women of our country have pulled that off. Moroccan women have dreamed of perfect equality, and they have achieved it in the Moroccan blogsophere. And that, that is a revolution."

Larbi conducts a wide-ranging discussion of the Moroccan blogosphere, including observations on the need for better bandwidth so more adolescents can blog, the fact that blogging has yet to spread beyond the major cities, and the lack to date of a genuine impact by bloggers on policy in the country.