election in iran

[cacophony]

ugh. an empty glib response to a serious issue.


there's such an immediacy and urgency to the situation as read on twitter and viewed on youtube. big media is right to be scared of the internet. if left to their glossy-haired, glossy-faced coverage we might just blow it off as yet another conflict in a part of the world we're none too fond of.

the tweets and the video uploads, though, humanize it. people are angry and suffering and the distance between us and them feels like it's shrunk from miles to inches.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Originally Posted by cacophony

ugh. an empty glib response to a serious issue.


there's such an immediacy and urgency to the situation as read on twitter and viewed on youtube. big media is right to be scared of the internet. if left to their glossy-haired, glossy-faced coverage we might just blow it off as yet another conflict in a part of the world we're none too fond of.

the tweets and the video uploads, though, humanize it. people are angry and suffering and the distance between us and them feels like it's shrunk from miles to inches.

Mine or Strangelet's?

[cacophony]

you can help.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Linky not working, Cacophony...

I was looking for other youtubes and there seems to be a large number that have been removed/blocked. One thing is for sure - Ahmadinejad's days are numbered after this. Whatever the outcome, a government that will attack its own people in this way cannot hold a mandate for long.

[cacophony]

Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout

Linky not working, Cacophony...

he either went way over his bandwidth or he took the page down. it was a list of ways you can use twitter to help protect people who are using the service to get messages out of iran. the government is currently blocking IPs and using hashtags to identify people and track them down. one of the suggestions was to go into twitter and change your location information to tehran to help muddy the waters.

[chuck]

If you're able - and I'd assume have a static IP - this link is handy.

Setting up an anonymous proxy for Iranians

It is instructions for a Mac - but has a link to instructions for people running Windows.