Though Egypt has had its Internet services shut down for nearly a week Egyptians are still finding ingenious ways to get their message out. The video above of a young woman in Tahrir Square was shot today, where 250,000 gathered in anticipation of tomorrow’s Million March and general strike. And Google has added this new speak-to-tweet service today. A young woman in Cairo left this message. “I just wanted to let the world know that we have been disconnected from our last point of communications from the internet. And there is strong word going around that we will again be disconnected from mobile phone calls. Um, so I wanted to let everyone know in case you don’t get any feedback from what’s happening tomorrow, and I didn’t want anyone to worry about us. They did this before; the only difference is the last time they did this, I was completely freaked out. I was too scared that they are going to shoot us all and nobody would know about it. This time, I’m not scared at all. I feel as if, like, I want to ask them ‘bring it on!’ We are excited. We are happy. We are going to be in Tahrir Square tomorrow. We are going to be huge and we are going to do our march and do our protest and Mubarak is going out. Be with us. Bye bye.” ( via KPSP ) Google announced the product in its blog on Monday , saying they are just trying to help the “people on the ground.” “We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time,” the blog stated. “Our thoughts are with everyone there.” The numbers that people can call to get their word out are: +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855 To check out all the voicemails as they come in, visit twitter.com/speak2tweet .
Continue reading …It’s the Chi-town connection as The L.E.P. Bogus Boys and The Cool Kids shoot a viral for their collabo “Countin’ My Money” off last year’s Don’t Feed The Killaz Vol. 3. Even the producers behind the track, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League had to come out and show support in the video. Directed By Coodie of Creative Control Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : MissInfo.tv Discovery Date : 01/02/2011 16:56 Number of articles : 4
Continue reading …Tens of thousands of people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday as a call for a million protesters was answered by the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (Feb. 1)
Continue reading …More than a quarter-million people flooded into Cairo Tuesday, filling the city’s main square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave office. (Feb. 1)
Continue reading …First they came for our telepresence, and we did not speak because we couldn’t afford them. Then they came for our physical presence, and there was no one left to speak out for us. Yes, Anybots are coming, the self-balancing QB robot available for purchase and shipping now, but at $15,000 we’re thinking not too many of you will be jumping on this bandwagon to start. As we saw in our hands-on in December the self-balancing bots enable you to be somewhere that you aren’t, controlled through a simple web interface and enabling executives to remotely monitor and run over the toes of their peons toiling in the office while said execs sit comfortably at home. There’s some footage of one of the bots in action below, which you’d better watch before one of them captures footage of you maintaining a state of inaction. Continue reading Self-balancing Anybots QB now shipping, the future of telepresence is now (video) Self-balancing Anybots QB now shipping, the future of telepresence is now (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Image credit: Robin Hood Tax When I last wrote about the Robin Hood Tax —or the idea that placing a minute tax on every speculative banking transaction might help us fight climate change, education and health cuts, and international poverty—the online debate inevitably descended into name calling about socialism. But the campaign keeps rolling on, and a new video is pushing the idea in starkly uncompromising terms. I just wonder if framing this up as an (albeit f… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Photo via radcarper via Flickr Creative Commons Sharks are, without a doubt, being caught at unsustainable rates worldwide. To slow the overfishing of shark species, over 100 governments adopted a plan 10 years ago at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to each create their own national action plan for sustainable shark fishing. However, according to Traffic and the Pew Environment Group, only 13 of the top 20 shark-catching nations have developed such a national plan, and it seems that fewer are enacting them. Without the support of the top nation… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Click here to view this media Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy joined The Dylan Ratigan Show for his daily rant to explain why America should support the protests in Egypt.
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