February 2011
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Egyptian Actions Highlight Dangers in U.S.... →
Cindy Cohn at EFF
The Egyptian regime’s shutdown of the Internet in an attempt to preserve its political power highlights the dangers of any government having unchecked power over our Internet infrastructure, and puts a fine point on the risks to democracy posed by recent Congressional proposals to give the President a broad mandate to dictate how our internet service providers respond to...
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The ‘Italian Job’ and Other Highlights From U.S.’s... →
Nicholas Kusnetz at Pro Publica
According to Human Rights Watch, Egypt welcomed more CIA detainees than any other country from the 1990s through 2005. And while renditions happen only with the assurance that a foreign partner will not torture the prisoner, as one CIA officer once told Congress, the assurances “weren’t worth a bucket of warm spit.”
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WatchVolunteers translate Egyptian protesters’ phone messages into tweets from The Next Web on Vimeo.
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brainfo asked: You've done an incredible job so far with the coverage in Egypt. Being someone with family in Cairo, I really appreciate what you're doing for the Tumblr community. Thank you.
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This is terrorism, right? Guy attempts to bomb...
shortformblog:
who Roger Stockham, a 63-year-old California resident, was arrested last week in Michigan on felony charges over a “bias-motivated attack.”
what Stockman reportedly was arrested outside of a mosque with a very large number of consumer fireworks. They could’ve hurt a lot of people.
where Dearborn, Michigan, near one of the largest Islamic centers in the entire country. 30 percent...
insaniyat asked: Great coverage on Egypt, can we expand this to Yemen? Include other Arab states protesting? Include coverage of international solidarity protests at Egyptian embassies? Thanks!
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Watch“All we ask for is moral support.” - Mona Eltahawy
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Egypt's army promises not to fire upon peaceful... →
producermatthew:
First read on Egyptian State Television:
We emphasise that your armed forces are the shield and the fort which protect our great nation from the dangers surrounding it. We also would like to emphasise that the soil of this country is mixed with the blood of Egyptians throughout history. Therefore, protect it.
Translation via Reuters.
January 2011
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Official Google Blog: Some weekend work that will... →
hilker:
“Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection.
We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company weacquired last week, to make this idea a...
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Egypt Information Portal →
Ever expanding list of news and communication resources by category. Send any resources you think may be useful.
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As of approximately 20:46 UTC, four hours after... →
via Renesys Blog
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20 ways to circumvent the Egyptian government’s... →
via Xeni Jardin
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How Journalists Are Using Social Media To Report... →
Vadim Lavrusik at Mashable
In some respects, the attempt to block communication has done little to stifle reports coming out of the country. Though much of the citizenry isn’t able to broadcast themselves, their stories are being told and amplified by reporters. What’s interesting is that the information flowing out is a hybrid of the “old school” reliance on reports from journalists on location...
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Factbox: Who are potential players in Egyptian... →
Writing by Andrew Hammond; Editing by Samia Nakhoul at Reuters
As a popular uprising against the rule of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak shows no sign of letting up, the question of what people or groups could take a stake in power is fast rising to the fore.
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Egypt viewed US military aid as reward for keeping... →
mohandasgandhi:
Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak and his generals have viewed generous US military aid as an “untouchable” reward for keeping peace with Israel, according to leaked US documents posted by WikiLeaks.
The secret diplomatic cable from 2009 underscored the deep ties between the two countries and Washington’s difficult position as a week of massive street protests threatened to...
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Tor is playing a key role in helping Egyptians... →
Fahrah Stockman at Boston Globe
Over the last three days, 120,000 people — most of them Egyptian — have downloaded Tor software, which helps activists protect their identity from surveillance by repressive regimes and get around blocked sites, according to Andrew Lewman, executive director of Tor, which provides the software for free.
“We saw this huge amount of traffic,’’ said Lewman, who...
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How Your Nielsen Ratings Sausage Is Made →
sectionfive:
According to this article, 25,000 people are being polled for the ratings. That’s 1/4 of 1% of the 100,000,000 TV Households.
That’s not an accurate sampling. It sounds like a joke.
(via NewTeeVee)
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The Scoble Effect →
by Jeremiah Owyang at Quora
4) Break and Push. This is the most critical phase, as it’s designed to cause the maximum amount of controversy which stems rapid market discussions. In this phase, Robert will ‘game’ the systems (getting the most Twitter followers, Scraping contacts in Facebook till he got pushed off, dominating friendfeed, and getting to 5000 friends in Facebook)....
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Egypt may risk bank run as uprising against... →
jakke:
Egypt’s banks may risk a surge in customer withdrawals when they open for business, placing them among companies worst hit by the nationwide uprising against President Hosni Mubarak.
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Asked about the risk of a bank run, Mohamed Barakat, chairman of state-run Banque Misr and head of the country’s banking association, said in a telephone interview that Egyptian lenders are “very...
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America's narcissism taints Egypt coverage →
by Alex Pareene at Salon
America doesn’t really understand how to respond to a revolution. The demonstrations in Egypt have nothing to do with Tea Parties or Neo-Conservatives or Twitter or Facebook or Fox News. But don’t tell Americans!
The media is biased in favor of American action. People on CNN and people on Twitter both demand that Barack Obama and the State Department...
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Egyptian State TV finally shows protesters in...
readjustingexpectations:
Al Jazeera is showing the Egyptian State TV feed:
They then went back to airing cooking shows, as Al-Jazeera continues to cover the actual events of the day.
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“More boxes surrounded them, and from these the men extracted, one by one, what...”
– The Economist, The battle of Cairo is over, or is it?
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Exclusive: Ex-Gawker Guy Snyder to Head Atlantic... →
via Nick Summers at The New York Observer
Former Gawker editor-in-chief Gabriel Snyder has been tapped to run The Atlantic Wire and build up a news aggregation staff in New York, as the 154-year-old magazine continues to carve out a home on the web.
“There’s been no doubt that the Atlantic has been very nimbly handling the delicate maneuver of bringing a 150-year-old plus brand into...
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is...
shoutabout-it:
Over the past few days I’ve come across some really great resources that have pointed out ways for people around the world to help support the protesters in Egypt and I thought it would be a good idea to make a list so that all of the information could be found in one place. Here’s what we can do to help:
Fatima posted this letter a few days ago with some great resources from...
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BlackBerry Handsets Are Egyptian Protesters'... →
While mobile phone service to much of Egypt was shut off this past weekend, BlackBerry devices quietly continued to work (mostly), offering a crucial tech bridge to the outside world for the connected few.
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Guide to writing about Egypt →
by Sarah Carr REJECTED BLOG POST FROM CAIRO In Egypt, writing an article follows a formula as old as the pyramids themselves*
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Egypt protesters vow to step up pressure →
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UPDATE: Al Jazeera Correspondents in Egypt... →
newsflick:
Nick Nolan AJE Tweets: We’re okay, they held us for 3 hours, we’ve been released, took cameras, laptops and phones.
(updated)
@Alanfisher AJE and @nolanjazeera
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Al-Jazeera: Egyptian protesters have called for a... →
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WatchAny Given Puppy Bowl
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Watchdailybunch:
Boston ad agency Hill Holliday asked five families to replace their cable connection with one of the current crop of networked TV devices: Roku, Boxee Box, Google TV, Apple TV and XBOX 360.
The results show what many of us already knew: due to a mix of challenges ranging from intellectual property territorialism (e.g. Warner Bros and Netflix and other similar power plays) and the...
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WatchBehind the scenes of the 60 Minutes interview of Julian Assange.
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“Why is it that CBS needs Assange to explain the basics of journalism to them?”
– Dave Winer
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