The article down the row at Hot Air on CNN video and the students in Iran is really what should get you worried. If they get neutralized in a brutal fashion, it will kill one of the best hopes we have for toppling the government from inside the country.

Then again, I doubt anyone expected Obama had the moxie to do anything here that would have changed this situation for the better, in advance. After all, CIA officers are now getting lawyers to protect them against future investigations by Congress. That’s just messed up.

I mentioned on my blog that this story was worth watching closely and I got several hundred hits per day over the weekend, so people are definitely wanting information out there and they know the mainstream media outlets aren’t giving it to them.

Katia the Conservative Dachshund

On Iran, it’s nice (to me at least) to see dinnerjacket have troubles, but he hardly matters anyway. It’s the supreme leader that needs his ass kicked, and the people need to decide what exactly is it they want…freedom, or like we’re moving toward; a pretend sort of freedom where we say we’re free but get regulated to death, or say they’re free but run around like a bunch of nuts being radical islamists.

They need to take a breather and think.

SMS is down since friday for all three cell operators. In the areas that riot is taken place, cell phones are not working. Outgoing calls to certain countries are blocked. DCI, the organization in charge of internet connectivity, that provides internet transit for local isps has taken down 80% of its uplink connectivity and currently only a few peers (TTNET as far as I know) are active.

Quote from another network operator examining Internet connectivity data:

We examined yesterday’s BGP advertisement patterns for evidence of transit change, outage and instability (the outage and instability pattern was fairly obvious, but certainly didn’t look like a natural disaster). Anyway, we did notice a rather unmistakeable transit shift to TTNet for all paths inbound to 12880 (DCI) the primary transit provider

This is technical stuff that people who aren’t network engineers are likely to be able to follow much of, but here you go:

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/06/strange-changes-in-iranian-int.shtml

Half the blogs on the ScoopThis.Org front page feature information passed on through Twitter.

Whatever works.

But as for Twitter or Facebook, social networking is not very profitable for providers. In fact, there is no money in it at all.

keep the change on June 14, 2009 at 6:46 PM

There’s always money in death (not for the overly emotional)

Youtube is going the way of hulu in order to stop the bleeding, that means the You in youtube will be downplayed in favor of commercial content submitted by professionals. Advertisers have told youtube they don’t like being associated with amateur produced videos. But as for Twitter or Facebook, social networking is not very profitable for providers. In fact, there is no money in it at all.

I don’t get it, but then, I don’t text. I think you need to do that in order to tweet.

/I feel gay just typing that

/sarc

long live the new media!

I will be last to defend the slimy 12′ver that leads Iran, but we don’t really know the mind of the majority. Though a 2/3 majority win for Mo is clearly a fabrication, he may well have won a national majority. A lot of people support him and his way of thinking; moreover, Mousavi was little apart from the existing regime in the issues that matter to the West. The idea of a positive, or even neutral partner in Iran seems like a pipe dream.

Twitter has really shown its power here. I can’t keep my eyes off twitterfall.