Robert: You're welcome. Here, also, is a link to the Tehranlive.org "about" page. It lists Amir Sadhegi as the contact: http://tehranlive.org/about/
- Jill Elswick
I saw so many of this kind of photo with my own eyes yesterday,I was there when they beat us,our people, to death just for yelling out where's our vote?!!
- TaaTaa
from fftogo
None of this reporting -- None of it -- would be possible without online tools. Robert -- there's the 2010 Web! I seem to remember your earlier question (a few months ago) about the definition of journalism. This is it. It's not up to the "paid journalists" at the NY Times or Chicago Tribune anymore. It's up to you, me, people like @jamesbuck, and the person who took this photo and put it online.
- Curt Mercadante
I'm not really surprised, Iranians are a lot more empowered than people in the West think. It is *not* Saudi Arabia!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Robert: I didn't even think about the photographer! Thanks for pointing that out. I do believe I'll be looking at all these pics in a different light now.
- Alex Hellstrom
Thanks for getting this out. It's so easy to get lost in tweeting about our silly mundane lives that we forget how important images like this can result in making people aware and helping to make a difference in the world.
- mrsha
Curt, right, after listening to Scoble on a panel about the future of Journalism, and he was the only one "journalizing" it via Kyte, I wrote a post that the future of Journalism is a video camera or in this case a camera. I remember that it was the camera and video camera that stopped Vietnam for instance
- Stephen Pickering
And, putting aside for a bit whether or not CNN ignored the story -- we're now getting news that NBC's Tehran office may have been raided and the BBC has been told to "get lost." Under oppressive, censoring regimes like we have in Iran, North Korea and China -- citizen journalists empowered by new communications tools will be the ONLY way we get accurate news from these regions.
- Curt Mercadante
If anyone ever doubted the revolutionary, real-time impact of Social Media, this photo easily dispels those misconceptions....
- John Fenzel
Amir: you have a fan for life. I hope you do win the Pulitzer Prize. I think you got the iconic photo of the election protests. This one should hang in Newseum's Pulitzer Gallery. Can you tell us how you shot it, and give us more details about what was going on in your head as you pressed the shutter button? To everyone else, don't you love friendfeed?
- Robert Scoble
Amir: when I took photojournalism at San Jose State University one quote stuck in my mind from all those classes over the years "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." That quote was from Robert Capa, here's an article in Time Magazine about it: http://www.time.com/time... You have gotten close enough. Congrats, I can't even imagine trying to get this close. I hope all comes out well for your country and you.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I've only been using friendfeed for about 5 days and I'm already in love with it. I guess I picked a good time to try it out!
- Alex Hellstrom
""Live streaming takes the Internet to the next level," said Jake Gold, chief technology officer at Stickam.com. "Leo is a great example of the replacement of TV.""
- Leo Laporte
from Bookmarklet
Leo is a pioneer and I'm sure he's watched closely by the big networks.
- Donald Townsend
from twhirl
"Million dollar business"??? Hope it is true Leo - you certainly deserve it.
- Euan
Nice article indeed. Great business. Listen to you almost every day
- Robert
Been following Leo for years. I loved Screensavers and Call for Help. I am so glad he decided to break the paradigm and show the big boys what a geek with motivation can do. GET SOME LEO!!!!!!!!!!!
- Robert C
I love Leo and have always been a huge fan. Sadly I haven't been able to listen to TWiT in a long time (just haven't has the time) but from what I have heard from numerous sources the show has really taken an awful turn for the worse. I saw tweets from people today saying they couldn't even make it through the current episode of Macbreak weekly because it was so bad. Like I said I haven't been able to tune in for a while, anyone else find that the network has given up on quality content?
- Nicholas Kreidberg
The TWiT podcast is better than ever recently.
- Phillip Stewart
Great exposure Leo! FWIW, Brian Brushwood has been an awesome contributor to TWiT. Revision3 is letting him go to waste just doing Scam School.
- Paul Reynolds
You know, Hafer, you may have a point. After all, we can't have crazy ex-vice-presidents running around shooting their fool mouths off. *coughCheneycough*
- Steven Perez
Ahh, the old "on my iPhone" excuse. Go figure. I have yet to see anything but websites with active bias attempt to belittle global warming facts. That alone is proof enough for me.
- jcunwired
And CNN isn't biased? What makes you think Global Warming is not a hoax? There's no science to prove it, and tons of left-wing agenda that use this non-crisis to further their agenda.
- Dave Roth
What makes you think it is a hoax? Show us the science. Umm, while you're at it, how does this fit in with anyone's agenda?
- jcunwired
"This whole global warming scam is nothing more than a front for wealth distribution and anti-capitalist activism. Democrats have come up with a great way to do accomplish those goals .. carbon credits. Charge companies and/or people for their carbon output and then let the government use that money to redistribute as it likes." (not my words)
- Dave Roth
Yeah, I've always viewed pollution reduction as an anti-capitalist front for redistribution of wealth. Oy!
- jcunwired
The sides are pretty convinced of the truth of their argument. The ice cores of the arctic have proven this is an unusual time in terms of the rapidity of melt and loss of ice coverage. True the earth has gone through cycles and ice ages before but none of this severity with this rapid onset. The extremes of weather is what you need to focus on, not just warming. Some warms will be warmer than ever, some colds, colder, moisture patterns climate will change and economies will suffer on a global scale.
- Phil Boiarski
@MikeAmundsen Yup. Neal's been right about this one for a long time.
- Dave Roth
I understand why many folks don't want to have severe restrictions on business to combat global climate change, and I understand why many folks are convinced that global climate change isn't caused by man, but what I don't get are people who refuse to believe that global climate change is happening right now or people who don't give a damn that hundreds of millions of us humans will be affected as ocean levels rise.
- Chrimmus Tad
Nice job getting all the crazy in one thread, should make for a nicer night tonight. Do we have to leave food for them, or can we must lock the door and leave them here?
- Matthew DeVries
It doesn't take a smart person to realize that *something* is going on and that maybe we ought to spend some time thinking about the consequences. I'm not thrilled at the far-left's attempts to use this as a smoke screen to dismantle global capitalism, but I'm also pretty unimpressed at the far-right's dogmatic and retarded response to what's going on.
- Chrimmus Tad
To me, it's irrelevant whether it's real or not, I support moving money toward fighting it, because it takes money out of rich people's pocket, and puts it in the hands of scientist who work on ways to control the weather, which is some seriously cool shit that will give us control of our planet, and help us understand how to do the same on different planets to serve humans. So, don't care if Global Warming is real or not, I want everyone else to believe in it so we can fund research into weather control.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, your point I agree with 100% percent.
- Admiral Anika
"because it takes money out of rich people's pocket"...and goodness knows they don't deserve the money they earned.
- Craig Eddy
@Dave Roth: "On numerous occasions, Boortz has cautioned his listeners to take no heed nor place any credence in anything he says, as he is merely an "entertainer."" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...]
- MikeAmundsen
Matthew, NOW your statement about all the crazy is true ;-)
- jcunwired
If you look far back at media coverage about climate, roughly every 30 years there is a rash of stories about climate disaster; and they alternate between warming and cooling. And another thing, what's with changing the name to Climate Change? If I post my theory of "Time Passes", does that make me right because, sure enough, it does?
- Robert Hafer
I don't get the global warming debate. Either you want more pollution or you want less pollution.
- Kirk Kittell
@Hafer: Stephen McIntyre (link #1) supports mining and has no climate standing. his sole credit is casting doubt on stats, not *proving* things. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...] Steven Milloy (link#2) lobbie[s|d] for tobacco and oil - again no climate science standing and (again) heavy on casting doubt, not proving a hypothesis....
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- MikeAmundsen
Wow, is Global Warming the new Gun Control. Godwin's law not yet invoked, so probably not.
- Shawn Thompson
Casting doubt is kind of the whole point. NASA has twice recently had to "revise" down data they had published on temperature increase. Every week there's a new factor discovered that wasn't included in climate models. You will notice that the famous Global Warming charts have not been updated to reflect the last five years. And, I am used to being called "pro-pollution" because I question junk science.
- Robert Hafer
@Robert Are you for more pollution? If not, no problem, wouldn't you say?
- Kirk Kittell
@Hafer: the 31,000 scientists link took a bit of digging - it's a Fred Sietz project! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...] i remember his work for RJ Reynolds when he was debunking the cancer/smoking links. again (sadly) no science standing on climate and again (predictably) all about 'doubt' (need i add fear and uncertainty to the list?).
- MikeAmundsen
Ah, so Hafer, you are just a pedantic person? You see the problems with pollution but you don't want to call it global warming because you don't accept the science? OK. But in the meantime the quality of the air around the world gets worse. The ice caps are melting at a rapid (and visible) rate. Maybe the scientists and Al Gore are onto something? What is the price if you are wrong? Seems to me I'd rather be on the side of asking for cleaner air.
- Robert Scoble
@Hafer: 'casting doubt' is the whole point if you're a debunker. it's not the point at all if you're a scientist. doubt is not a proof. doubt is not a moral position, doubt is not a fact. doubt *is* an opinion. you're welcome to your doubt. you have every reason to hold to it. on any subject. i have no right to take it from you. you need not prove it. you *can* cite others who share it, tho. as you've done quite well.
- MikeAmundsen
Casting doubt surely is something scientists seek to do. Ultimately, you cast doubt on hypotheses, until you're left with just one -- hopefully, the correct one.
- Andrew Leahey
The price is spending the time, research and money on the wrong "solution" to the real problem of climate change.
- Andrew Leahey
It's just like the Ethanol debacle. Yes, I'm for alternate fuels, but burning ethanol from corn in your gas tank is just plain stupid. Less pollution is great; but carbon dioxide is not the enemy. We need good science, not junk. The Clean Air Act of 1963 caused acid rain because it mandated the removal of alkaline particulates and not acidic gasses. We have to wary of the "DO SOMETHING! ANYTHING!!!" attitude.
- Robert Hafer
@andrew: casting doubt? well, maybe. *having* doubt - i think yes. and it's that *start* of science, not the end. i might doubt the theory of relativity, might even find like-minded folks to meet with, pay folks to collect a set of statistics that support this doubt - even post a web site about it. that doesn't raise the standing of my doubts to a plausible (or provable) theory.
- MikeAmundsen
I used to be a scientist and have respect for the scientific method. Cherry picking your data and labeling your doubters as "blasphemers" isn't science. there are serious doubts about methodology. Why has NASA made raw METAR data harder to access? If the temperature on Mars is also rising, how can that be man-made? Why start your climate baseline in the 1800s when half of that century was still in the 'little ice age'?
- Robert Hafer
@Hafer: "labeling your doubters as "blasphemers" " - you talkin' to me?
- MikeAmundsen
@Hafer: RealClimate.org looks interesting. i've not read this before, but recognize some names. i've added it to my reader - thanks. John Everett and Ocean Associates is a slightly diff story. i see he's participated in IPCC and offered testimony re:fisheries. i'll read more, but i have my (wait for it.....) doubts about him<g>.
- MikeAmundsen
@MikeAmundsen no, sorry, I was talking about the Church of Global Warming and its Hierophant Al Gore
- Robert Hafer
What piece of evidence would you like to see that would prove to you that this is real or will you just dismiss everything from our 'church' out of hand.
- Johnny Worthington
I would like to see a climate model accurately predict future weather for one. More transparency from NASA and NOAA would help too.
- Robert Hafer
It never fails to amaze me how some people will dismiss a concept out of hand, no matter the preponderance of evidence before them, simply because of a distaste of the messenger.
- Steven Perez
Part of my skepticism stems from the fact that I'm old enough to remember the Global Cooling scare of the 70s; much of the rhetoric was the same as today, ' scientific concensus', the urgent need for action.
- Robert Hafer
In the 70s, scientist proposed covering the Artic with black soot to prevent the icecap from spreading.
- Robert Hafer
I think its hard piecing together a puzzle in a dark room with only a flashlight
- Melanie Reed
@Hafer - In Al Gore's movie, he shows a plot taken from Antarctic ice core samples that goes back 200,000 years. There are fluctuations, but we are currently way beyond any of those fluctuations. That convinced me. But also, reducing energy use overall will SAVE money, right? Who doesn't want to save money? If everyone were to just live closer to work in smaller homes and drive their cars less, we would save money and have less pollution. That's why a carbon tax is a good idea. It is technology neutral.
- Robert Felty
Until someone looks at the ice core samples it is easy to dismiss the notion. Once that evidence stares you in the face, you realize these people don't care what happens to our grandchildren. They intend not to reproduce.
- Phil Boiarski
Yea, its right at 0:21, the old lady reading the book
- Fee501st
HAH! OK, yes, huge Harry Potter spoiler.
- Veronica
What is the statute of limitations on a spoiler just becoming common knowledge? No one yells "BIG BIBLE SPOILER" before talking about Easter.
- Matthew DeVries
That's great. Of course, the original ad is pretty darn funny by itself.
- Joey Gibson
@Matthew, if was only the book, it has ran out by now, but since the movie is yet to come out with this story line, i guess it still could be a spoiler.
- Fee501st
I STILL haven't seen the usual suspects, but I certainly don't go kicking people in the crotch who spill the Keyser Sosay is Kevin Spacey. It's my own damn fault for waiting 17 years to see a movie.
- Matthew DeVries
it's ok, I just saw all 3 godfather movies last month, for the first time.
- Veronica
I am just steeped in female baby-fever right now. I literally have 9 acquaintances due in the next 2 weeks. (2 family members, 4 friends, 2 co-workers, and my doctor) So to me, all women want babies.
- Matthew DeVries
I like how he gets stuck under the chair at the end.
- ronin
I'm 33 years old with no children yet. I'm also an only child. You haven't seen baby fever until you talk to my parents.
- Paul Reynolds
i like it when he plays with the box on the left
- Veronica
Very cute! Unlike our son, he actually plays with his toys instead of -- let's see -- blinds, plants, shoes, pots & pans, pretty much anything *other* than his toys ;)
- Jasmin Patry
As a father of an 8 month old, I can say unequivocally, that your child is highly focused.
- John LeMasney
This was on Sundance or IFC recently. Interesting if not disturbing film. The really bizarre thing about is that most of the 'products' in the phony ads were REAL.
- George Gray
I think adult admission to the aquarium is $17 which gets you in for the whole day.
- Imabug
They have to feed all the little animals, I suppose. And pay workers. And maintenance, etc.
- Araceli
Araceli- Having been a museum worker, (and a volunteer at the Mystic Aquarium), I understand the price is totally justified. It's just that I don't often *have* a spare $20 to spend on one afternoon's entertainment. :)
- Bran Mydwynter
I have a family plus pass, Bran, you're going with us as a guest. :) That has pluses and minuses, namely Aidan, Mark, and Ellie.
- Heather Solos
Yay! Oh, thank you, Heather! (Just so we're clear, which one's Minus and which one's Plus?) ((I'm having "Pinwheel" flashbacks now.))
- Bran Mydwynter
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- Zee.
woohoo - Leo Laporte liked my stuff...lol :) And is in his the apple room! :)
- Zee.