iran: bandwidth, piratebay, and more!
Current bandwidth:
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/06/strange-changes-in-iranian-int.shtml
Amusingly enough, Pirate Bay has gone and set up an iran forum. It also renamed itself to "Persian Bay". This lists some places to read info:
http://iran.whyweprotest.net/showthread.php?t=61
PM me if you want more twitter feed suggestions, these are mostly failing. Not sure how public the ones I know are, I'd think the media keeps broadcasting them tho. Pity the media: at this point, journalists left in Iran are having their visas expired and/or are under house arrest. So who can they possibly quote for stories other than named tweet feeds? Except, they can't do this anon.
Or, you can just go for something like: http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=twitter&fr=h&q=#iranelection&x=0&y=24&=Search and attempt to decipher what is real and what is not real
EDIT: known fake twitter feeds: http://twitspam.org/?p=1403
But wait! http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/ has done this for you!
EDIT: not sure if he is removing fakes
Lots of links and talk on:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/sanctions-and-web is interesting: The internet hasn't been written into "you're protected for helping Iran" laws yet.
http://emsenn.com/iran.php generic how to help.
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/06/strange-changes-in-iranian-int.shtml
Amusingly enough, Pirate Bay has gone and set up an iran forum. It also renamed itself to "Persian Bay". This lists some places to read info:
http://iran.whyweprotest.net/showthread.php?t=61
PM me if you want more twitter feed suggestions, these are mostly failing. Not sure how public the ones I know are, I'd think the media keeps broadcasting them tho. Pity the media: at this point, journalists left in Iran are having their visas expired and/or are under house arrest. So who can they possibly quote for stories other than named tweet feeds? Except, they can't do this anon.
Or, you can just go for something like: http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=twitter&fr=h&q=#iranelection&x=0&y=24&=Search and attempt to decipher what is real and what is not real
EDIT: known fake twitter feeds: http://twitspam.org/?p=1403
But wait! http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/ has done this for you!
EDIT: not sure if he is removing fakes
Lots of links and talk on:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/sanctions-and-web is interesting: The internet hasn't been written into "you're protected for helping Iran" laws yet.
http://emsenn.com/iran.php generic how to help.