If you are a blogger, you should certainly be reading Lorelle Van Fossen’s Lorelle on WordPress - particularly, of course, if you use my favourite blogging platform, WordPress.

Lorelle’s blog is a source of endless useful information and tips about blogging in general and about WordPress in particular.

Anyone who has been blogging for any length of time will have learned the hard way that blogging is not all fun. As Lorelle writes:

I’ve been bragged about, exclaimed, flamed, humiliated, taken to task, had my words abused and used against me, whether any of these were true or deserving, it matters not. It happens to all of us at one time or another in this new phenomenon known today as web publishing.

Lorelle has decided to start a new series of articles to help all bloggers (whether new or veteran) deal with their blogging struggles:

The series is called “Blog Struggles” and will cover how to find and write content, editing blog content, blog writing tips, finding your blogging voice, when to publish - and when not to, how to encourage comments or spurn them, comment spam, trolls and mean folks, splogs and content abusers, reader perceptions, creating an online and/or blogger persona, writing a personal or technical blog, creating a blog working environment, changing your blog topic and concept, getting found, social networking, explaining what blogging is to friends and family, finding time to blog, panning your blog, linking, blog structure, maintaining your blog, blog evolution, web traffic mythology, closing your blog, finding inspiration and motivation to keep blogging, blog branding, blog development, fitting blogging into your life in spite of your life, and the trends, fads, and blog clutter I’ve seen come and go, and then come back to our blogs.

You can read the introductory article here - and I strongly recommend my fellow bloggers to look and learn from Lorelle.

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The Muslim Network for Baha’i Rights has published a story about a poster that has been distributed in the Iranian town of Karaj vilifying the Baha’is.

As has been previously reported on this site, the Iranian clerical establishment has persistently carried out a vicious and sustained campaign of misinformation about the Baha’i Faith and its teachings. Their aim is to provoke a negative opinion among the Iranian population, particularly the uneducated and naïve masses, against the Baha’is and prepare the means for a widespread genocide of Iran’s Baha’i community. One of the elements of this vilification campaign is the periodic distribution of posters filled with lies and misrepresentations, aimed at brainwashing the unsuspected population against Baha’is.

Read the whole story here.

Technorati Tags: Baha’i, Bahai, Iran, persecution, religious freedom, human rights