February 2011
Watchsoupsoup:
Watch : Live stream of Al-Jazeera English
Egyptian Bloggers
Hossam el-Hamalawy (@3arabawy / YouTube / Flickr)
Ramy Raoof (@RamyRaoof / YouTube / Flickr)
Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy)
Wael Abbas (@waelabbas)
Ayman Mohyeldin: (@AhmanM)
Egyptian News Websites
Al Masry Alyoum
Arabic Language Websites (Thank you Political Notebook)
Al Jazeera
Streaming Al Jazeera
BBC...
The Scoble Effect →
soupsoup:
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). At this...
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)
Tor is playing a key role in helping Egyptians get... →
soupsoup:
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...
Factbox: Who are potential players in Egyptian... →
soupsoup:
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.
How Journalists Are Using Social Media To Report... →
soupsoup:
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...
“Egypt doesn’t have control of its people the way we do here.”
– Joe Biden, today on MSNBC
This wasn’t the thing to say.
(via thecookieateu)
O so here you do have the way to do the huh on hah huh?
:| (scary)
That’s really fucking gross, Biden.
I just got chills up and down my spine.
(via allthebloodinmyveins)
Dear Biden et al,
Keep pushing us. Then...
The Fix - RNC is $23 million in debt →
savagemike:
section9:
evangotlib:
goodreasonnews:
The Republican National Committee has about $23 million in debt as it prepares for the 2012 election cycle, new Chairman Reince Priebus announced Monday.
They can’t run anything right…whether a country or their own internal organizations.
Maybe they should cut expenditures?
And this is the fiscally responsible party? How much does a...
Egypt shutting off cell networks again →
The Egyptian Information Ministry tells CNN it’s shutting down mobile phone networks ahead of tomorrow’s “March of the Millions” demonstrations.
While it hasn’t been established that the government is behind the failure of Egypt’s last public Internet service provider, the report confirms widespread predictions that it would seek to cut off communications with the outside world before the...
“Who’s behind the Egyptian revolution?
It’s spontaneous, yes, triggered by the...”
– Who’s Behind Egypt’s Revolt? (via ryking)
Rahm Emanuel proposes adding 25 miles of bike... →
Egypt army vows not to use force →
The Egyptian army has said it would not use force against citizens staging protests to force President Hosni Mubarak to step down.
In a statement on Monday it said “freedom of expression” was guaranteed to all citizens using peaceful means.
“Lately I feel like somebody made a big mess and I’ve got my mop and I’m mopping...”
– President Barack Obama
I do love a good socialist mop (via reallyfoxnews)
Dying.
(via meagsicle)
Socialist Mop is going to be the name of my new Ska band.
(via nicotinecoughdrop)
Socialist mop is the mop of the people.
(via cognitivedissonance)
WatchJulian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, speaks to Steve Kroft about the U.S. attempt to indict him on criminal charges and the torrent of criticism aimed at him for publishing classified documents.
(via WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, Pt. 2 - 60 Minutes - CBS News)
WatchJulian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, speaks to Steve Kroft about the U.S. attempt to indict him on criminal charges and the torrent of criticism aimed at him for publishing classified documents.
(via WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, Pt. 1 - 60 Minutes - CBS News)
By the numbers: al-Jazeera English's huge leap in...
shortformblog:
4M number of online views al-Jazeera English says it has gotten since Friday
1.6M number of views the network has gotten from the United States alone
2,500% the increase in the site’s online traffic since Friday (a big deal) source
» Why they aren’t on cable: As our buddy ProducerMatthew figured out last night, they’re fighting in a very competitive space. And now he has a...
Speak2Tweet: Google makes Egypt's sucky day less...
shortformblog:
lame Egypt has shut down Noor, the last ISP standing in the country, leaving the country completely, utterly offline. Great work.
lame Egypt also plans to shut down the country’s mobile phone systems ahead of the planned “March of Millions” tomorrow. Very lame.
brilliant Google just bought a startup, SayNow, which made @Speak2Tweet, a Twitter account to get Egyptians’ voices on...
“I never imagined that in the year 2011, I would see so many efforts to separate...”
– Wisconsin physician, Dr. Doug Laube, in “Abortion Providers Need Your Support.” (via mandington)
“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young...”
– Steven Colbert (via lalehemily)