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.<\/p>\n
Does Egypt need Twitter?<\/a> By Malcolm Gladwell<\/p>\n 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\u00a0phone<\/em>\u2014and 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\u2014and 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.<\/p>\n Read more\u00a0http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2011\/02\/does-egypt-need-twitter.html#ixzz1D1nRVtbq<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Trolls Pounce on Facebook’s Tahrir Square<\/a> By Spencer Ackerman<\/p>\n After attacking protesters on the streets, Mubarak\u2019s 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\u2019s protests. But no one yet knows if that represents a change in the regime\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A Race between Digital and Print Magazines<\/a> By Nick Bilton<\/p>\n