The New York Times Lede blog has information about what is going on in Iran.
More amateur video has emerged of Saturday protests. A clip posted on the BBC
shows a bus set ablaze and a throng of protesters in an apparent
standoff with security forces on motorbikes in Tehran. As with other
video and images of the unrest, the authenticity of the video could not
be verified.
There's also a article by Noam Cohen called Twitter on the Barracades.
Social networking, a distinctly 21st-century phenomenon, has already
been credited with aiding protests from the Republic of Georgia to Egypt to Iceland. And Twitter,
the newest social-networking tool, has been identified with two mass
protests in a matter of months — in Moldova in April and in Iran
last week, when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to
oppose the official results of the presidential election.
election protests. I conducted an experiment today where I attempted to
find out how many retweets an Iranian citizen would get when
documenting his experiences through twitter, and found that each tweet
receives an average of 57 retweets from other users:
http://bloggasm.com/tweets-coming-out-of-iran-are-retweeted-an-average-of-578-times
My cousin Meg Fidler writes:
most are sentence fragments essentially saying help, some are 30 second camera phone videos taken from rooftops of gun fire.
One is a jumpy close up clip of a strikingly beautiful young woman in blue jeans sprawled on her back in the street dying. as screaming men rush to her and surround her, her eyes roll up into her head and blood pours out of her mouth and nose.
I stumbled on it. and certainly don’t want you to go look.
I’m just wanting a third reconsideration of photography from susan sontag. maybe she’d distinguish between this and the “unreality” or movie-like shots of the planes and the tower. maybe she’d again