Well, it’s been a long time since I last blogged. My Persian Blog is going well, but I can’t seem to really get my English blog on track. The reason is that the English blogosphere is much larger and much more competitive than the Persian blogosphere. You would have to write really high quality content in order to get some attention. So I don’t write about just anything and I wait for some really good ideas for things to blog about. The little things seem to be more suitable for twitter.

But then, when I find good ideas and start to write about them, the document becomes too long to fit into a blog post and some of the ideas seem too good to blog about before they are published. Specially since I don’t live in a country where intellectual property can be protected very well. So these ideas are left in the form of works in progress as word files in my computer.

One of these ideas has been a little more lucky recently. When I thought about writing a post about the “entrepreneurship hype” in Iran, the idea grew into an article abstract I submitted to the International Conference on Entrepreneurship and it was accepted. I later discussed the topic with one of my professors, and since then we have been able to derive two articles out of it. One of them will be presented by Dr. Saeed Jafari Moghadam on May 28th at ICE 2008.

(Update: This article was presented and can now be downloaded from the publications page, along with slides and speech notes.)

Another important thing I’ve started to work on is a review article on the topic of attention. I’ll try to blog about that again soon.

Oh, and I haven’t yet written about the most important thing that has happened in my life. I’ve been admitted to the Ph.D. program at the Schulich School of Business, in York University, Canada. I’m trying my best to get my study permit and visa in time to get there in September. But the bureaucracy in Iran is killing me!