Tons o’ good stuff stacked up during the Online Politics 101 frenzy, so let’s split today’s Quick Hits into a domestic and an international edition.
- Egypt Protester Holds Facebook ‘Thank You’ Sign (photo).
- Twitter Says Access to Service in Egypt Is Blocked, but Internet shut-off in Egypt doesn’t slow protests down, as Google and Twitter Set Egyptians Up to Tweet Their Voices and Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online.
- Al Jazeera urges Egyptians to send content online, as Seizing a Moment, Al Jazeera Galvanizes Arab Frustration.
- Block Like an Egyptian: How did the Egyptian government turn off the Internet?, but Why’d a Battle-Ready Mubarak Turn Egypt’s Internet Back On?
- U.S. warns against blocking social media, elevates Internet freedom policies.
- Tangled Web: Authoritarian regimes, alas, know how to exploit social media, too.
- Tunisia: The First WikiLeaks Revolution?, Who Organized Tunisia’s Revolution? and Tech and the Pooling of Tunisians’ Disgust.
- Tunisia’s uprising and the social media, and Social Media Plays Role in Toppling Tunisian President. Yay, internets!
- Tunisian blogger joins cabinet.
- Online Reports Detail Chaos, Deaths In Tunisia; Add Yours.
- Can Social Media Create and Spread Revolution? and Did Twitter Make Them Do It? The battle over social-media revolutions. Starting the fight: Does Egypt need Twitter? Does the Internet need Malcolm Gladwell?
- Egypt, Tunisia: Generation TXT Comes of Age?
- Iceland summons US envoy over demand for MP’s Twitter details.
- Meet the Persident: In surreal Russia, fake presidential tweets are much more relevant than the real ones.
- Miliband’s master of cyber-spin.
- Liberals trump Tories on Twitter and Facebook, but Harper rules Google roost, via Kayle Hatt.
- Squabble over an online petition in Canada.
- China’s online crusaders gain ground, and they have an ally: The White House.
- Saudi policy on blogging criticized.
- Great online advocacy and membership campaign by Amnesty in Norway.
- Social data and geospatial mapping join the crisis response toolset.
- Clooney’s ‘Antigenocide Paparazzi’: Watching Sudan.
- Pope Warns Against Dangers of Facebook, Twitter. Good thing SOMEONE finally stepped up.
- Tech tools for activists around the world. By the HacktionLab collective — a chance to learn how to get sneaky.
- And finally, Your military theory thought for the day: How COIN is Premodern.
– cpd