There's a set of the urban hip in Cairo
There's a set of the urban hip in Cairo who are now pounding the streets in Tahrir Square in their Converse who'll claim it all started on their 'Berries and iPads. This is a modern-day revolution, with keyboard and mouse instead of guns and Molotov cocktails or sticks and stones.
"We're winning this on information," claimed a young advertising executive who was involved. Shared information, where-to and how-to tips kicked off and mobilized this uprising. Starting, we are told, on Facebook. And then it picked up momentum across various channels of communications, like Twitter,durable of compact fluorescent light for Sale, BBM, voice-to-tweet, open IPs and physical memory-stick sharing.
An uprising is a mass thing, and the mass doesn't reach critical until it involves a cross-strata of society. This time around, the socially adept, technologically enabled urban youth got involved, and often actually activated the masses because they felt empowered and enabled. "What's different this time around here in Egypt is that this isn't just a bunch of disgruntled, unemployed young men hurling rocks," said a colleague, comparing the situation to some other parts of ongoing intifada in the region.Huge selection of gaga-deals for your garde, They're educated, aware, and unhappy. They're hurling tweets.
One poster boy in Tahrir Square this time is Google's marketing head for the Middle East and North Africa: Wael Ghonim, blogger and activist. When he disappeared off the streets, locked up by the authorities for socially mobilizing the uprising on Facebook and helping push #Jan25 to unprecedented trending, the social networks were rife with anger and acceptance. If you blog, they arrest you. You are known by your handle.FASCINANTES Bell Ross 100% suizos. And then, on his release on Monday, there was widespread celebration and a whole new momentum fueled by victory.
There's a set of the urban hip in Cairo who are now pounding the streets in Tahrir Square in their Converse who'll claim it all started on their 'Berries and iPads. This is a modern-day revolution, with keyboard and mouse instead of guns and Molotov cocktails or sticks and stones.
"We're winning this on information," claimed a young advertising executive who was involved. Shared information, where-to and how-to tips kicked off and mobilized this uprising. Starting, we are told, on Facebook. And then it picked up momentum across various channels of communications, like Twitter,durable of compact fluorescent light for Sale, BBM, voice-to-tweet, open IPs and physical memory-stick sharing.
An uprising is a mass thing, and the mass doesn't reach critical until it involves a cross-strata of society. This time around, the socially adept, technologically enabled urban youth got involved, and often actually activated the masses because they felt empowered and enabled. "What's different this time around here in Egypt is that this isn't just a bunch of disgruntled, unemployed young men hurling rocks," said a colleague, comparing the situation to some other parts of ongoing intifada in the region.Huge selection of gaga-deals for your garde, They're educated, aware, and unhappy. They're hurling tweets.
One poster boy in Tahrir Square this time is Google's marketing head for the Middle East and North Africa: Wael Ghonim, blogger and activist. When he disappeared off the streets, locked up by the authorities for socially mobilizing the uprising on Facebook and helping push #Jan25 to unprecedented trending, the social networks were rife with anger and acceptance. If you blog, they arrest you. You are known by your handle.FASCINANTES Bell Ross 100% suizos. And then, on his release on Monday, there was widespread celebration and a whole new momentum fueled by victory.
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