Tracking Egypt news, links and roundups
Things are moving very vast in Egypt, and I’m trying to stay on top of what’s going on. Right now it isn’t clear who is doing what and the end result of all this is pretty unclear. Here’s what I’m reading and watching right now.
Besides the obvious tracking on Twitter, I’m also monitoring LazyFeed for updates.
Round-ups via news organizations:
- Washington Post’s Egypt round-up
- The Moderate Voice has a video round-up
- Live blog New York Times round-up at The Lede
- Who to watch on Twitter for Egypt updates via Andy Carvin at NPR
- CNET has put together the news on the internet’s status in Egypt
- The Guardian’s Live Blog
- Breaking News round-up
- Newseum Newspaper Front Pages
- Foreign Policy magazine talks to 5 experts
Reports and Comments
- AP: Looters rip heads off 2 mummies at Egyptian Museum
- CNN Reports from the ground, objections to America’s previous support
- Forbes on the Economic implications of the Egypt uprising
- Egyptian Museum Partly damaged and threatened by fire
- Al Jazeera Releases its coverage of Egypt under a Creative Commons licence.
- Reuters reports that Egyptians resort to vigilantism to protect their homes as the police disappear.
- Interview of Barry Rubin (Editor of Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal) on the conflict
- Quote from prisoner of Egypt
- NYT talks about Arab solidarity
- A call by the protesting citizens
- Saudi King and Palestinian Authority President come out against Egyptian protesters
- ABC reports on the tough balancing act Obama faces on the issue of Egypt
- Notes on the connections of Egypt’s new VP
- Could Egypt be having a Flash Mob Revolution? asks the Smart Mobs blog.
- Egyptians believe Mubarak instigated looting to show only he can protect them from chaos
Videos
- AlJazeera seeks the youth perspective
- Military Prevents Confrontation between Protesters and Police in Cairo
- Al Jazeera Live Stream
- The Gillmor Gang talks about the impact of social media on revolution
Audio
Photos
- Photo from the London protest
- A whole bunch of excellent photos at DEMOTIX
- Facebook photos out of Egypt
- Pictures from the DC protest from @theanapologist
- The human wall protecting the Cairo museum
- “Leave Us Pig”
- Protesters on a tank
- Images of Egyptian Museum Damage
- Protesters in San Fransisco
- MSNBC Photo Blog
- Protesters in Boston
- Photo Gallery of Egyptian protests at totallycoolpix.com.
- US tear gas grenades on Egyptian streets
News about the Communications Cutoff
- Dial-Up Provides Internet Access for Cut-Off Egypt
- Cells seem to be functioning, but not SMS
- Slate discusses how the Egyptian government turned off the internet.
- CBC Reports on how Egyptians are breaking through the web shutdown
- GigaOM has a comprehensive report on how the Internet was taken down in Egypt
- Vodafone talking about why their service was shut down
- The Telegraph reports on how Egypt shut down the internet
- “In #Egypt a network of BBS’s are coming to life to combat the closure of ISP access. UUCP is up an running, quickly hashed up FIDOnet nodes”
- Data connection returns to Mobinil phones
- China blocks “Egypt” on its Twitter clone.
Tweets
- Reports that the Police are coordinating looting.
- Reports that citizens are standing against looters.
- NBC reports that about 1,000 have gathered outside the UN HQ to call for a regime change in Egypt
- Death toll as of 2:30 EST
- Reporter in Egypt mugged
- “Vigilante groups” vs “citizen watch committees”
- Neighborhood protection groups wearing white arm bands in Cairo. People getting organised to end chaos and looting. #Jan25 #Egypt
- “military advising people to leave lights on in homes to ward off thieves”
- “RT @jamesmb: Egyptian Christians protect Muslims at prayer. Egyptian people protect their heritage and museums. Mubarak protects himself.”
- Both men and women in the crowd
- Protesters in Toronto
