I found these three articles interesting reads. I really liked what Gladwell had to say about Egypt and the technology that is being credited for this protest. The second article is how not only are pro- Mubarak Egyptians are attacking anti-Mubarack Egyptians they are targeting anti-Mubarack supporters online. The third article discusses the struggle between Digital and Print Magazines. I still say that we will always have a need for print and it’s not going anywhere. Just because we have microwaves doesn’t mean we don’t have an oven or stove–Just a thought.
Does Egypt need Twitter? By Malcolm Gladwell
Please. People protested and brought down governments before Facebook was invented. They did it before the Internet came along. Barely anyone in East Germany in the nineteen-eighties had a phone—and they ended up with hundreds of thousands of people in central Leipzig and brought down a regime that we all thought would last another hundred years—and in the French Revolution the crowd in the streets spoke to one another with that strange, today largely unknown instrument known as the human voice.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/02/does-egypt-need-twitter.html#ixzz1D1nRVtbq
Trolls Pounce on Facebook’s Tahrir Square By Spencer Ackerman
After attacking protesters on the streets, Mubarak’s forces are going after the online spaces where the January 25 movement began to coalesce. Those goon squads, for whatever reason, took a knee for the most part during Friday’s protests. But no one yet knows if that represents a change in the regime’s crackdown plans or a temporary respite. If Mubarak is out for a more sophisticated response to the uprising, expect sites like We Are All Khalid Said to become bigger targets.
A Race between Digital and Print Magazines By Nick Bilton
I didn’t run any red lights, or speed, or park illegally during my shopping expedition. Yet when I returned home with the glossy paper product in hand, the digital iPad version still hadn’t finished downloading to my iPad. Anybody who reads Wired would call this an Epic Fail.
