Hossein Derakhshan, the father of the Persian blogosphere and a Canadian citizen, has run into problems. He says in his latest blogpost:
I've literally become homeless. My new home is now hoder.com and I'm not joking.
Hossein - or Hoder, as he's known to many - has been banned from re-entering the US for six months after US border officials Googled his name and claimed he was living and working in the US illegally.
Media consultant and top blogger Jeff Jarvis has leapt to Hoder's defence, urging people to write to their senators and pledging to write a testimonial describing how Hoder is "advancing the causes of freedom and democracy in Iran and elsewhere on earth":
And isn't it sadly ironic that Iran - whose dictatorial regime he challenged starting the weblog revolution there - also questioned him and let him in and out. But America will not let him in. That is our loss. And we need to fix it.
The Committee to Protect Bloggers has also offered its support.
I met Hoder when he visited London a while back, and he has written for - and been written about on - Guardian Unlimited several times. It will be interesting to see whether the collective power of the blogosphere can get the decision reversed.
