Update on Egypt
I just wanted to give a quick update before I head off to bed, because I am deeply interested in this story due to the fact that it started getting popular not only due to the social issues but the social media issues as well. If you haven’t seen, the president of Egypt announced a statement saying that he has asked his cabinet to resign and that he would have new leadership in place tomorrow, doesn’t he realize the problem is with him and not his people. He is putting a bandage on a major flesh wound...
Read MoreEgypt, Technology, and Wisdom: What can we learn from this?
As the days have progressed, we have seen the situation in Egypt go from bad to worse, to almost hitting rock bottom. It started earlier this week when the Egyptian government “allegedly” banned the Twitter service in their country. Some Egyptian companies stated that this was probably a service failure on the largest ISP in Egypt and had nothing to do with the fact that Egyptian citizens are in the midst of a protest to overthrow their leader. I just think that the all too convenient failure of one...
Read MoreTwitter and Egypt
Twitter is a big part of some of our lives. For me personally, Twitter and Facebook are the first things I check when I wake up in the morning and my twitter feed scrolls on the side of my mac all day while I am working. Twitter has evolved (for some people) beyond a world of telling people what your eating to a way to market your thoughts and your brand to a community of attentive participants. So does that mean Twitter and other social networking sites can actually help fuel a revolution? Apparently, Egypt...
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