Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th Jun 2009 18:14 UTC
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr. All demon spawn from Web 2.0, and we all love to make fun of these websites and the services they provide. However, here in the West, where everything is at arm's length and democracy is something we do not remember fighting for, it's easy to forget that what looks silly and useless to us, can be of the utmost importance somewhere else in the world. Update: I've been informed that the first casualty has fallen at the hands of armed government supporters. Hundreds of thousands of people are now on the streets all over Iran. More updates inside.
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It is indeed fascinating to follow what his happening in Iran right now and new media seems to play a key role here.
Twitter, which I always found silly before, seems to really play an important part for the people in Iran and it's also one of the best ways to get first hand accounts of what is going on in Iran.
All in all blogs and twitter seem to be doing a much better job at covering the situation than much of the mainstream media. At least here in Germany, TV coverage is awful, to put it mildly, and international news channels like CNN are doing a terrible job.
For anyone who is interested, here are some sites I found worth following about the situation in Iran:
http://niacblog.wordpress.com/
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_...
http://twitter.com/TehranBureau/
http://twitter.com/iranelection09
http://twitter.com/StopAhmadi