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__NOTOC__ ==05 March 2011== SultanAlQassemi The Independent: The opposition is expecting at least 20,000 Saudis to gather in Riyadh & in the Shia Muslim provinces http://ind.pn/eZeSIK SultanAlQassemi Never seen this before in a Gulf paper: #Qatar: A crippled fourth estate http://bit.ly/fRHy9s via @Brian_Whit @blakehounshell #Chapeau Ghonim My #TED speech: Revolution 2.0: No one was a hero because everyone was a hero: http://bit.ly/gdjTqD #Jan25 #Egypt SultanAlQassemi The Telegraph: #Saudi Arabia drafts in up to 10,000 troops ahead of protests planned for next week http://bit.ly/fvfqIe Zeinobia A New Chronicle: The fall of the State security kingdom in Egypt http://goo.gl/fb/xdBME Libyan authorities accuse al Qaeda of sending in drugs *http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLDE7222H120110303 acarvin So is it an overstatement to say that the protesters raiding State Security HQ in Alexandria is equiv to storming the Bastille? #AmnDawla themoornextdoor RT @ibnkafka: Of Revolutions, Regime Change and State Collapse in the Arab World By David Ottaway and Marina Ottaway http://bit.ly/fXncr9 *about Libya ==04 March 2011== themoornextdoor New Blog Post: Mauritanian youth protesters' 7 points: http://t.co/ca3WeG3 SultanAlQassemi The Guardian: Libyan opposition leaders to get advice from UK military http://bit.ly/dZNM4g #Libya arabist New on Arabist: Facing death in Libya http://arb.st/fLW6Lf acarvin RT @newscientist: Libya goes offline as nation's servers flatline http://bit.ly/gbnKYd Scobleizer Cool @OpenStack in the New York Times as it Opens Up Voting Process http://t.co/07rp60K dsearls Shopping as a Revolutionary Act? http://bit.ly/fkIXGF #VRM goodness starring @MissRogue, adriana872, ccarfi at #SXSW Prokofy Why is Business Better in Second Life? http://bit.ly/fBD3EZ timoreilly magical sculptures carved out of old books. Beautiful. http://bit.ly/e0v9Yi via @jamesoreilly TechCrunch Ditto: The Social App For What You Should Be Doing http://tcrn.ch/fvE0zY by @parislemon timoreilly RT: @marytreseler Why YQL is the Web API Powertool #PayPalX, #YQL http://bit.ly/hzBAni Arasmus I'm really interested in seeing if I can make a contribution to @SBTaskForce efforts in the future. Looks clever: http://goo.gl/tHNAt themoornextdoor RT @blakehounshell: @Brian_Whit fires back at Robert D. Kaplan's article in FP on Oman's Sultan Qaboos http://t.co/q07Ph2D TechCrunch With "Quick Bar", Twitter Has Figured Out How To Cram Ads Into The Stream http://tcrn.ch/fmzXES by @parislemon Prokofy Come take part in this thread about Strengthening SL Communities & Cross Communications in SL http://bit.ly/fRvwP5 TechCrunch Wordpress.com Suffers Major DDoS Attack http://tcrn.ch/i1ofPg by @alexia TechCrunch The Age Of Relevance http://tcrn.ch/fDIg3T dsearls HT to @VenessaMiemis for the Future of Facebook project http://kck.st/h01Ir2 I get a few words in the video there, including the last ones. dsearls Woops, forgot the link in the last tweet: http://cc.aljazeera.net/ bait from @AJenglish and @creativecommons for TV and #journalism hrheingold I'm a fan of Kelly's book, but @evgenymorozov critique is, unlike much technology criticism, deep & broad via @tvjrennie http://t.co/ZGtdKnO loic Bravo @MryEmery pour cette video pour la journee mondiale de l'eau, belle initiative http://bit.ly/fivnW2 Scobleizer Ahh, the Google guys changed my profile's URL: http://t.co/LHNOU36 so much better looking! taterunino Virtual Environments Daily http://j.mp/idqKgU *http://virtualworlds.isr.uci.edu/&source=dwell-on-it TishShute Food for thought from @chris23 on his deeper motivation: On Human Networks & Living Biosystems - http://shar.es/3xq0F TechCrunch Drawing Inspiration From Facebook, Google Revamps Public User Profiles http://tcrn.ch/eq1S89 by @jasonkincaid timoreilly .@khanacademy gets far and away the biggest applause of any presentation yet at #TED. Bill Gates calls it "the future of education." Scobleizer Awesome, TED got Wadah Khanfar's talk up http://t.co/X2g0D2d Everyone should watch it. The world is changing. He runs Al Jazeera. JustAmira They want faster Internet http://yfrog.com/h2k7ldgj Au - create-a-sim *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/03/ophelias-gaze-what-mmo-developers-can-learn-from-the-sims-3s-create-a-sim-experience.html CatFitz - anti-semitism *http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/jews-jews-jews-jews-jews/71896/ McNight - gender traits test *http://androgyne.0catch.com/gentest1.htm SultanAlQassemi Official Facebook page of #Egypt's Prime Minister: http://www.facebook.com/Egyptian.Cabinet.Of.Ministers #Jan25 shadihamid 'When the army promised transparency, it meant it would announce decisions after it made them rather than not at all' http://nyti.ms/gDv7V4 SultanAlQassemi Egypt's new Prime Minister Essam Sharaf speaking to Egyptians at Meydan Tahrir now http://t.co/RXQhZcR *http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/20113483827365222.html SultanAlQassemi AGI: 130 journalists blocked in Tripoli's Rixos hotel to prevent reports on the protests http://bit.ly/fPHulI #Libya TechCrunch How @CharlieSheen Came To Twitter, And To The Ad.ly Network http://tcrn.ch/fpzISX by @alexia timoreilly RT @nickbilton: Why Are Easy Decisions So Hard? http://t.co/9mQ2dLw Well worth reading. Scobleizer "These need to be more intuitive than a PC." Jobs says. "We think we are on the right track with this." TechCrunch Apple Announces New iMovie, Garageband For iPad http://tcrn.ch/e0bEid by @johnbiggs Scobleizer Nine live video streams at once in new Photo Booth. Showing off new GPU capabilities in the A5 chip. Scobleizer If you have iPhone 4, personal hotspot. "Share your 3G connection via wifi." About time! TechCrunch Posterous 2.0 Is A Group Sharing App With A Website Attached http://tcrn.ch/hRXVsL by @alexia TechCrunch Linux Foundation's Yocto Project To Join Forces With OpenEmbedded To Advance Embedded Linux http://tcrn.ch/es3HOK taterunino Hey, I got impatient waiting for the new community site, so I dug through the Lab's trash. http://secondlife.lithium.com/ #secondlife Ghonim Did crazy #Gaddafi blocked the Internet again? http://bit.ly/dNUwbZ 3arabawy One of my most favorite videos from the Friday of Anger http://bit.ly/euCXDF #Jan25 Battle for Ramses Sq. It was such a fantastic moment. RiverDryFilm This is the level of work that, I hope, is going to coming out of Egypt more and more. Brilliant piece on @mondoweiss: http://bit.ly/fiUarT ==03 March 2011== RiverDryFilm Latest blog entry on the collectively written @occupiedcairo: http://bit.ly/g7pJgH JustAmira Brilliant: Online Security for Dummies: http://superpeif.com/index_en.html JustAmira If the Libyans planned their uprising on a dating site, did Bahrain plan their protests on Farmville? http://abcn.ws/hpKNlI NickKristof WashPost notes that Bob Gates exaggerates the difficulty of a no-fly zone http://t.co/zdulKFD TrablesVoice Pro-Gaddafi are hidden in the people, not like Tun/Egy, it's not a choice to go in the green square to get shot and disappear. zero result. SultanAlQassemi Mid East Online: #Saudi Shiites call for 'day of anger' over rights, arrest http://bit.ly/dMPqAY Calls for 'constitutional monarchy' Gsquare86 Watch @3arabawy on Inside Story @AJEnglish at 4:00 http://bit.ly/b4gt35 talking about labor strikes & resignation of Shafik #Jan25 Zeinobia RT @tomgara: Another Egyptian historical moment: Ahmed Shafik was the first world leader to ever be fired over Facebook. ShababLibya http://bit.ly/eNb6AG Libya is united in popular revolution – please don't intervene #Libya #Feb17 #gaddaficrimes *Guardian article AC360 asks about drug claim *http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/02/video-gadhafi-spokesman-on-drug-claim/ shadihamid The case against Amr Moussa? http://bit.ly/gOPaYU via @arabist arabist Jonathan Wright: Fouad Ajami and the Invasion of Iraq Revisited http://arb.st/dIO0Y2 shadihamid Egypt youth leader on new PM: 'We had proposed his name & our demand has been accepted" http://bit.ly/fsAN8k #jan25 shadihamid 6000 killed in #Libya uprising, according to rights group http://bit.ly/h8h2vY arabist New on Arabist: Egypt's Military Council in a diagram http://arb.st/gXk4Z6 3arabawy I'm completely against this http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/03/egypt_protest_ahmed_maher.html #USA #Jan25 *An Egyptian revolutionary seeks Obama's support hrheingold Cultural exaptation is one of the ideas that stuck w/ me months after reading Where Good Ideas Come From. Prokofy I favorited a YouTube video -- Play Arrington off, Keyboard Cat http://youtu.be/2Jnpi-uBiIg?a chrismessina Wow, @charliesheen is even screwing up the @Twitter! http://flic.kr/p/9n8RRr loic Seated at #ted with Yann Arthus Bertrand he shows me GoodPlanet http://ping.fm/iyDZz TechCrunch The Pros And Cons Of Facebook Comments http://tcrn.ch/f7vN0k by @erickschonfeld hrheingold Rheingold U 3D diploma - idea from @lisakimball http://twitpic.com/4555cv hrheingold Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory. I think this stuff is catching on fast. http://mr.danoff.org/ TechCrunch Internet Up For Nobel Peace Prize Again, Let's Hope It Wins This Time http://tcrn.ch/eaIG9F by @alexia loic Top 100 most followed by investors on angel list http://bit.ly/dGmRP1 Prokofy Second Lifers take note of industry standard! @mashable FB Will Continue To Share User Addresses & Numbers a 3rd part http://ow.ly/1bz3Qe TechCrunch Facebook Acquires Group Texting Service Beluga http://tcrn.ch/h8fOJd by @parislemon hrheingold New Worldchanging book is out http://t.co/IMc5Mb9 chrismessina If you ever wanted to better understand distributed social networks, read this plain-language comic: http://dsn-test.com/comic/dsn-comic.pdf TechCrunch Facebook Rolls Out Overhauled Comments System (Try Them Now On TechCrunch) http://tcrn.ch/dMe9vV by @jasonkincaid hrheingold Future of Facebook Project http://t.co/NDhaFvk #fofb Prokofy Creativity and Commerce http://bit.ly/ejxpJK *answer to Botgirl chrismessina Heh, I called that: "Web's Hot New Commodity: Privacy" http://on.wsj.com/dI4OPT (2007 ref: http://j.mp/datacapital) #datacapital dsearls Use your head, don't give it. http://bit.ly/giH5cO CBS: Oral sex now main cause of oral cancer. #papillomavirus hrheingold http://www.openmeshproject.org/ Build an Internet that really CAN route around censorship taterunino Virtual Places: Virtual Architecture 101 http://j.mp/evdbun #secondlife chrismessina Journalists play a critical role as curators — NPR's @acarvin inspiring comments on revolutions and social media: http://bit.ly/fntyTO arabist New on Arabist: The Qadhafi social network http://arb.st/gUTczx ArabRevolution My how times have changed. An Arab educating Americans on freedom & democracy - Al Jazeera chief Wadah Khanfar @TED http://bit.ly/fhFjtW NickKristof Here’s What We Can Do to Tackle Libya - My column: http://nyti.ms/ghdxBJ acarvin Egyptian military jails activist http://bit.ly/evJ8QU #jan25 Zeinobia A New Chronicle: Unforgettable night in the Arab TV history http://goo.gl/fb/92hah Egyptocracy When will I trust the police? http://bit.ly/h9EBff #Egypt #Jan25 #Tahrir acarvin Et Tu, Julian? http://nyti.ms/htGY2g *Assange anti-semitic? Zeinobia I doubt that something like that was shown on any Arab TV before on air like that :) *talking about Shafik interview? Arasmus Insistence of #Tunisia protesters underlines point - these revolutions are not just about removing individuals, but a culture of repression. ChangeInLibya A great TED talk from a great man: http://goo.gl/AR2Ty #aljazeera @wkhanfar @rhijazi #egypt #libya #tunisia abbassbraham Hardt - Negri on the Arab revolution. Imprtnt http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/24/arabs-democracy-latin-america?INTCMP=SRCH bencnn Libya much different from #Tunisia, #Egypt revolutions. This is becoming a war. ==02 March 2011== Wagner James Au Everything you wanted to know about going AFK in an online world (but were too afraid to ask.) *New World Notes: Miss Ophelia's Metaverse Manners: The Etiquette of Going AFK *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/03/the-etiquette-of-going-afk.html Tim Kelly Guardian review of N3xu5 / Andr01d Ging3rbr3ad and comparison with 1ph0n3 - http://bit.ly/dQjpUW Amr Hamzawy *http://www.carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=237 Marshall Rosenberg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Rosenberg *domination culture acarvin RT @thestatuskuo: Gaddafi or Charlie Sheen? Take your best guess in this "whose line is it" quiz from The Guardian: http://bit.ly/fCMTE4 Libyan4life For those who wont get a chance to do it in real life. Enjoy! #Gaddafi http://y8.com/games/slap_gaddafi Egyptocracy FP: From Tahrir to Lulu: A guide to the new Tiananmen squares: http://bit.ly/fUa4sQ #Tunisia #Egypt #Yemen #Iraq #Bahrain #Libya #Jan25 Arasmus Note by @cshirky that "leverage of small degrees of connection is hugely amplified by civic density" adds something new: http://goo.gl/QRcRn arabist David horowitz talks to bernard lewis and decides arabs are not ready for democracy http://bit.ly/dJWnyw #whatelseisnew SultanAlQassemi A parody of @NYTimesFriedman article on the Arab revolts by @Sarahcarr http://bit.ly/emYWmx Original: http://nyti.ms/eyduFy via @Sandmonkey SultanAlQassemi A parody of @NYTimesFriedman article on the Arab revolts by @Sarahcarr http://bit.ly/emYWmx Original: http://nyti.ms/eyduFy via @Sandmonkey Arasmus Technology & politics community in West seem stuck. Lots of ideas, but the people are all in Facebook, which is privately owned. Next step? themoornextdoor RT @derochegonde: Slim Amamou, blogueurTunisien devenu ministre, explique que Facebook a sa "police politique". http://tinyurl.com/5w3emvp SultanAlQassemi Foreign Policy: #Saudi Arabia's Musk Revolution by Simon Henderson http://bit.ly/e8Y7c4 3arabawy Egypt's revolution has been 10 years in the making | Hossam el-Hamalawy http://t.co/PjL2wx2 via @guardian SultanAlQassemi DPA: Report: #Saudi Facebook activist planning protest shot dead http://bit.ly/hSpmOG Libyan4life Please sign the petition supporting a ''No Fly Zone'' over #Libya. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/un-actnow-libya/ This is MUCH NEEDED SultanAlQassemi AP: Mohammed Yunus, 2006 Nobel peace Prize winner, fired from his bank Grameen http://bit.ly/heWQaD (they also have a Saudi operation) Ghonim I was inspired yesterday when I heard Amir Eid & Hany Adel live performance: The Voice of Freedom. Amazing song! http://bit.ly/i2cPF1 Zeinobia John Galliano: 'I Love Hitler' (VIDEO) http://t.co/tMQhK0x is it me or the women were not shocked,it is disgusting though ==01 March 2011== Egyptocracy My most recent video upload: #Tahrir is getting back to life. The revolution is still on: http://youtu.be/MmPSp6OPZ0Y #Egypt #Jan25 7our Battle of #Tripoli in #Libya. RT @nytimes: Even a Weakened Qaddafi May Be Hard to Dislodge http://nyti.ms/gdX0k8 SultanAlQassemi Blogger @Ahmed of "Saudi Jeans" translates the demands of #Saudi intellectuals into English http://bit.ly/fKDvvb Also signed by @mahsabbagh Arasmus 15 Things I Learned From Mapping Violence in #Libya: A guide for #activists: http://goo.gl/67SxE #feb17 #feb20 #jan25 #liberationtech #map ShababLibya http://bit.ly/gbaqge Egyptians and their brilliant sense of humour, (arabic only) #Libya #Feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Egypt Arasmus People Power: video game simulates nonviolent struggles, allows players to devise strategies, apply tactics, see results http://goo.gl/KhcT6 mkapor Fill-in-the-blanks pitch deck. Useful starter, not frivolous http://t.co/LU8ZPhN Scobleizer Oh, my @davemcclure writes an epic rant about @AngelList and tech startup investing: http://bit.ly/fcLYmd Warning: salty language. TechCrunch What is Your Real Name? http://tcrn.ch/ftMGOf by @stevegillmor TechCrunch Humans Are The Routers http://tcrn.ch/h8IAwh by @shervin *Open Mesh http://www.openmeshproject.org/ cshirky ...and Scott's _Domination and the Arts of Resistance_ http://amzn.to/epnjj6 Both of them are dense but highly recommended. cshirky Two books I've found useful in thinking about Tunisia/Egypt/etc: Rosanvallon's _Counter-Democracy_ http://amzn.to/gOQw6y ... shadihamid Useful reminder that what happened in #Tunisia & #Egypt are not yet 'revolutions' in true sense of the word http://bit.ly/eClNLI themoornextdoor RT @ksarfeui: algeria is not in the list #dz2011 http://is.gd/2R7ZAs Tripolitanian So far, this has been the most clear and reliable site for donations to Eastern #Libya: http://bit.ly/fVyQp9 SultanAlQassemi Jeel #Libya: Reports of a joint Qatari-British-American effort to secure a safe exit for Gaddafi http://bit.ly/exmClp Arabic martinchulov Benghazi rebels say they'd welcome turkish mil force to save them from Ghaddafi's jets. Strong no to US role though. #libya. acarvin RT @katetropa: I will be liveblogging Iran's youth protests in a few hours here: http://bit.ly/hURSEn God speed, Greens. #IranNext #25Bahman Slate - young men have upper hand *http://www.slate.com/id/2286240?wpisrc=xs_wp_0001 3arabawy I'm completely, totally, strongly falling in love with the Libyan revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXUtOEDbjzI #Libya [[Category:LinkLogs]]
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