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Suzy Tonini
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ this before you mindlessly retweet Iran-related tweets #IranElection http://www.boingboing.net/2009... (RT @Monicks @PaulHarriott)
Robert Scoble
The guy who took the iconic picture of the Iranian protests, Amir, is now on friendfeed. His site has now been banned in Iran. More: - http://tehranlive.org/2009...
The guy who took the iconic picture of the Iranian protests, Amir, is now on friendfeed. His  site has now been banned in Iran. More:
Amir's friendfeed account is http://friendfeed.com/amirpix -- his photography reminds me of one quote I remember from my photojournalism classes at San Jose State University: "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 Capa: http://www.time.com/time... - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet
This image is iconic. I've looked at thousands of images from Saturday. It is the best one out of all the images of the Iranian elections and if it doesn't win the Pulitzer Prize it'll be a damn injustice. - Robert Scoble
Thanks for keeping up on this Robert. Great Job! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I don't remember being able to talk to the photographer who has made a historic image within hours of the image being made. Another small way our world has changed. - Robert Scoble
Pretty incredible how fast it changes and how fast it all works - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
makes the news far more real watching it unfold in real time - Roger Oldham
He shot quite a bit of video too, which is on his friendfeed account. I hope that he eventually can tell us more about the context of this image. What was going through his mind as he pressed the shutter. - Robert Scoble
I can't wait until his image joins these other Pulitzer Prize winners: http://www.newseum.org/exhibit... -- if you ever are in Washington DC, this is a must-visit exhibit at the Newseum, by the way. They have every Pulitzer-prize winning photos with the stories from the photographers of how the images were made. - Robert Scoble
So awesome we're able to get this kind of coverage and intimate ambiency with news & newsmakers. Never would get this the traditional way. - phil baumann
I just hope he's safe with all the eyes that are on him. They blocked his site, but he has unblocked our sight of what is happening there. - Californian
it's re-sensitizing for a world which had become numb to the impact of dramatic news breaking - Roger Oldham
I hope Amir comes out of this OK. Iran has banned his site, and the government there isn't friendly to those who do real journalism. I hope someday to meet Amir and go on a photowalk with him. He does great work. - Robert Scoble
For kids studying journalism in college, right now must be an exciting time. - phil baumann
I like the image and its a strong representation of the moment but I wouldn't be too hasty in giving it iconic status. This story is still playing out and no one knows where it'll end and Amir and others covering this on the ground might well come out with Iran's "Tank Man" or "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" before its over. I hate to play devil's advocate but I felt it was too early to be calling this. I just hope he stays safe whilst covering this story - Jon Dillon
it's amazing how powerful a single photo can be. - Chris Pugh
Jon: sorry, but you're wrong. This is an image akin to the guy standing in front of the tanks in Tianenmen Square (which also won a Pulitzer). I knew immediately when I first saw that image that it would be the one that history remembers from that day. This is the image that history will remember from Saturday. If there's another image that's better, well, then two Pulitzers should be handed out. - Robert Scoble
@Jon - I'd respectfully disagree. Even if you take this photo out of context (if you don't know the situation), this is one, lone woman, raising a flag against a host of riot police descending on her. That alone is an amazingly powerful moment, quite possibly iconic. - Jennifer Dittrich
All the photos on the blog post of his are fascinating ... talk about live news coverage - Violet Bliss Dietz
whoops ... here's the blog post url http://tehranlive.org/2009... - Violet Bliss Dietz
BTW: Boston.com's The Big Picture has tons of great photos from the day too: http://www.boston.com/bigpict... -- wonderful examples of photojournalism. - Robert Scoble
But none of Boston.com's examples come close to the power of Amir's photo, although several are gripping and several deserve Pulitzer status as well. - Robert Scoble
I was also rather surprised hearing Kaddafi during his visit to Italy say "Women are like a piece of furniture you can change when you want and nobody will ever question why you did so". (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world...) I think we are seeing history in the making. - Michele Costabile
Are you sure she's alone and not just standing out it front? I'm watching images stream in live on the AFP photo wire and there's a ton of very strong shots from Saturday that also define the moment. I didn't want to be seen to be putting this shot down its just when I think of iconic images its usually an image that represents the event not just a facet of an event. Personally I don't think this one is in the same league as Tank Man but time could prove me wrong. - Jon Dillon
These pictures are unbelievable - thanks for sharing Robert! - Ryan Kelly
Robert: will forward this information along, great find. Thanks for tracking this down. - Mark Essel
Michele: Iran's treatment of women is why Amir's image has even more power than most of those on Boston.com's site and other places. It combines women's struggles with those of the struggles to get a democracy. Ryan: thanks, it is an incredible story and we're lucky that so many great photographers were there to make images. It's an interesting time in our lives, too, when technology helps us not just see history but have conversations with those who are both making it and capturing it. - Robert Scoble
This is the new Democracy! using social media to get the opinion of the masses - Constantine
@Jon - I'm pretty sure she is standing in front of other people, but part of the power of the photograph is in isolating her, without anyone else in the frame. That speaks a lot to the skill of the photographer as much as the moment being captured. - Jennifer Dittrich
Amir's full name is Amir Sadhegi, which is listed on the about page on http://tehranlive.org - Robert Scoble
Countries think if they shut off access the problem will go away, when actuality it highlights it. Amir's pictures remind me of Capra too. He absolutely knew how to frame a story. - Janet Fouts
Here's an image Amir made of the woman and another guy running: http://twitpic.com/7c6jz - Robert Scoble
@jennifer - I totally agree, I've been in the news photo biz for many a year and had the pleasure of witnessing many an event unfold through photos in real time. My only issue was whether now was the time to call iconic status on an event unfolding. - Jon Dillon
Jon: I think history will judge this image to be the iconic one. Yes, I do think we can say that when the events are unfolding. We did that with the tank image from Tianenmen. - Robert Scoble
Wow there are a lot of iconic images on that page - Chris Saad
German TV News has a TV special about Twitter/Social Networks and Iran right now - Frank Koehntopp
@Robert - As I said we'll see and always happy to be proved wrong. Although Tank Man didn't hit the wires until June 5th yet the Tiananmen protests began in mid-April. During the seven weeks there was many an image that seemed to define the protests "goddess of democracy", "students feeding soldiers trapped in the crowds" today everyone remembers Tank Man. - Jon Dillon
Frank - do you have a link? - phil baumann
For more coverage of Iran that's got some organization to it, see Andrew Sullivan's blog, The Daily Dish. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai... - Violet Bliss Dietz
Check this picture from HuffPo's slideshow http://is.gd/12FoD There's a lot of people in that pic. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ - Violet Bliss Dietz
Keep it up, Amir! Stay 'wise' and safe! Welcome on FriendFeed, the effective, best info discovering & spreading tool. - Thierry R. Andriamirado
Stay safe Amir. We wish you and your brave countrymen in Iran the best of luck - Russ Jackson
It's interesting to note that on June 5th Amir favorited the 1989 Tiananmen video on Youtube: http://friendfeed.com/amirpix... - Yuval Atzmon
Glenn Fleishman
- @persiankiwi is a remarkable thing to read. (via @johnmoe) [Live tweets from Iran. Can reformers hold out?]
Mike Bracco
A little while back FF slightly modified the style of their embedded widget http://friendfeed.com/embed... to not include the service favicon to the left of each entry which I kind of liked. If you want that look, I have some of the old widget code that's not available on FF but still works. See below** replace USERNAME with your name.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://friendfeed.com/embed..."></script><noscript><a href="http://friendfeed.com/USERNAME"><img alt="View my FriendFeed" style="border:0;" src="http://friendfeed.com/embed...></a></noscript> - Mike Bracco
yes Mike, I agree with you. I'm still using ?v=2 but you can safely use v=3 for noscript>img('src'). - Alp
Jeremy Toeman
never realized that the *entire* vaccination/autism scare is due to one jerk who faked data in a research report: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
And yet, people are still pushing it, and children are dying. - Glen Campbell, esq.
wow. - anna sauce
Like the way DDT was maligned and the needless deaths of thousands ensued from malaria. - Dave Roth
Andy Jacobson
http://twitpic.com/7h09b - Today's son's last day of high school. I remember taking this shot 13 years ago (don't remember the beard).
http://twitpic.com/7h09b - Today's son's last day of high school. I remember taking this shot 13 years ago (don't remember the beard).
Duncan Riley
Twitter gives CNN a smack of reality - http://www.inquisitr.com/26080...
Yahoo! Buzz
Look, has everybody forgotten that CNN operates in an American context? Twitter is global. #CNNfail is inevitable, it always has been. If you want international news, read the Financial Times, read The Economist, look at the Freakonomics blogs, and increasingly turn to real-time sources (although they are in their infancy). - Nick Wade
Both CNN & Fox suck these days. They care more about pushing some BS political agenda than actual news reporting. - Thunderwing from twhirl
Thunderwing: many people think they've sucked for a long time. Real-time sources like Twitter are bringing the rest of the world to a doorstep that formerly had no such view. It's a fact that Twitter is also full of crap, as it is in it's infancy, but perhaps that leaves the door open for improvements, a partner ecosystem that mines the good stuff for a given niche in each case, and so on. I think this is some of what Scobleiser and others are on about. - Nick Wade
@Nick, seriously. Did we all wake up and somehow the world as we know it no longer exists? - Patricia
CNN has never provided a world view. It is a distinctly Americanized filter. And while NPR is far from perfect and balanced, comparing Twitter to NPR in terms of the global perspective it *can* provide is far more accurate. I thought CNN performed precisely as expected given the mainstream culture that permeates a traditional news organization today. - Ken Camp
Citizen journalism vs journalism. Why can't both co-exist w/out bashing the other? - Mona Nomura
Ken; exactly. Mona; I reckon they can. - Nick Wade
Abby - I agree, but at 56 I accept that I've been fed a blinkered world view my entire lifetime. The only way to get a comprehensive and balanced view is to go get it yourself from whatever sources exist. American media cannot and will not ever deliver that. - Ken Camp
Ken, that's the only way you're ever going to get the info you want, or need. We've all been raised to trust organizations to go out and get the news for us. Now people can search, filter and repost in ways that we ( I'm 54 ) never could before. Mainstream News is addictive, and slightly euphoric. The images I'm getting from Iran aren't from agencies, their from people. I set the parameters now. ( that sounds so vain ). Any way.. http://friendfeed.com/news-ch... - Wallace
Wallace - Great points all. Our culture in the US has socialized us to be spoon fed information that's filtered. We've always had to research for ourselves to get the full story. Too many of us don't make the effort to do that, but today's tools make that both more practical and easier. I'm 56 and find my hunger for details and the real story is far greater now than when I was a boy. I... more... - Ken Camp
If you rely on one "news" service, then you are living in the dark. The only problem with Twitter is you can't really confirm who a person is, or what they are reporting. It's very easy to fake and spoof, and don't be surprised that state-run intelligence are posting fake tweets. - Spencer
I don't know about CNN Domestic, but CNN International appears to have been doing a lot of Iran election coverage without it turning into a 24/7 focus. (I am hoping the Tehran bureau is getting some sleep when I'm not hearing Christiane Amanpour or seeing footage of massing people...) - Starshadow Rivaulx
Robert Scoble
CNN: you should be ashamed. Horrid news judgment today. Absolutely horrid.
Totally agree. If it wasn't for the internet, I would have no idea what was going on in Iran. - Derek Coward
about what? Iran? I've been at a car wash for my daughter all day - andywergedal
Do elaborate - Bryce Roney
I can't believe how bad CNN is. - Robert Scoble
Yeah, ridiculous indeed. - Soso Sazesh
People actually watch CNN? - Jim Hague
I read conflicting reports that Mousavi has been arrested? Is this true or not? - Carlton Prest
From what I've heard on the news updates- he has been taken into custody. This is not good. - Jim Hague
CNN has been terrible forever. I follow them on twitter simply to see how much less informed I feel with every post. - Katie Metzelaar
Is there a link to the article or video? - Ron Hixson
I gave up on CNN years ago. - Steve Lowe
Huff Post has some pretty good coverage http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009... - Soso Sazesh
Yes, no coverage of Iran. Larry King is on with stupid motorcycle show. - Robert Scoble
What are we talking about here. Reference plz? - Mitchell Schneider
the most amazing thing was filtering Twitter hashtag and watching the updates come in sometimes hundreds within 10-15 minutes periods. an incredible way to immerse into the real-time interest cloud. - Thom Kennon
Robert, I came to the same conclusion of CNN years ago. - Taylor Marek
I love this tweet from the CNN tweetbot: Tehran on fire"... "Palin vs. Letterman Who's Right?" with panel discussion {priorities: fail;} - BryanSchuetz
We are talking about Iran's election outrage - Soso Sazesh
There is a letter from Mousavi in both Farsi & English circulated for hours. He is under house arrest. There are reports of Ministries on Fire. Twitter has been lit up for hours. - Donald Wilson
One of Australia's sunday morning TV shows wasn't any better, it's lead story was that a bank was introducing muslim-friendly loans - Bryce Roney
The real-time coverage from Tehran today was on Twitter http://twitter.com/jimsciu... - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Let's agree that most TV news networks decided long ago that they would control the news. Remember swine flu? People blame the fuss about that on Twitter, yet it died everywhere as soon as the MSM stopped making it a big deal. - Carlton Prest
Blogs have been active, but TV networks have been dead. Including CBC in Canada. Unbelievable! - Donald Wilson
Pavan - they did nothing and they should have - Soso Sazesh
A brilliant guy at my gym, a BU professor, refuses to work out to CNN, insists we change the channel. - Halley Suitt
So hard to believe we have to go to Twitter to stay on top of such important news as the protests in Iran. - AirDye®
That gym prof has the right idea. - Katie Metzelaar
What the hell's going on with the US media. The unrest resulting from the Iranian election IS IMPORTANT! - Don Whittaker
How great to actually see some WOMEN in the streets! - Halley Suitt
@don they are too busy working out who would win in a fight between Sarah Palin and David letterman - BryanSchuetz
It's the weekend. There is no one in the newsroom on the weekend. When I worked there, we had to absolutely drag someone in for the Princess Diana accident...the community was going nuts and there we were, with no broadcast news, no confirmation, no nothing. - Karoli
Were the elections free and fair? - David Lloyd
Front page on Foxnews.com http://www.foxnews.com/story... - Kirk Harnack
Not according to the letter from Mousavi, and from reports coming from Iran. - Donald Wilson
@Mark They were corrupt beyond farcical http://twitter.com/jimsciu... - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Livestation.com. You can watch France 24, Al Jazeera English, Euronews and Press TV, the Iranian propaganda channel. Coverage on all of those - Andrew Leyden
RT @IranRiggedElect More photos from Iran http://bit.ly/M8K1j #iranelection - Donald Wilson
I have to say the Nambu search ( searches twitter, friendfeed, one riot, yahoo news) has been great for keeping on top of this, and it's essentially real-time: http://img.skitch.com/2009061... - BryanSchuetz
to be fair its not only CNN dropping the ball on this one. All of MSM here in America is ignoring Iran today. - BCK
So....are you all (we) making MSM obsolete? - Cynthia Chrysler
RT @mistabaka Follow this blog http://is.gd/113ss for amazing pics/vid of #IranElection Pls RT. 5 hours ago - Donald Wilson
so far I think the best coverage is here: http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/ - and he has more on his facebook page - glfceo
wut's going on folks? - Eric Nakagawa
CNN is a mock news feed. It's a misinformation provider. - troglodyte
Iran's Mirhossein Mousavi = Lech Wałęsa - johnny2009
It isn't just CNN. If you look at online newspapers and other outlets before going to bed tonight you'd walk away with a different story and all sorts of analysis about how we will continue to deal with the old regime. That still may be the case, but you can tell this was a - Warner Crocker
Go to Monitter.com (a great site, btw) and type the Twitter search terms in. You can watch them come in real time, no refreshing. - Obayoo
con't... we're out of here for the weekend story. - Warner Crocker
I've been following events on Twitter all day. @tehranelection is a student in Tehran. His last tweet, half an hour ago: "I have to shut down for a bit, the police are looking for satellites." Could CNN give us that, even if it wanted to? - Jill Elswick
CNN does have this on their site: http://www.cnn.com/2009... - invariant - farewell FF
We don't bother with broadcast TV, so I can't watch any of the stations, but http://www.bbc.co.uk/ currently has it listed as the top news story, as does http://www.cbc.ca/news/ both with firey photos. - David Sky
CNN has access to Twitter and more. So why can't they give the proper attention to this story? - Donald Wilson
It's actually all so called TV news outlets. Internet is a better source of news. To be fair though, sometimes, on duty journalists/editors do not have the last say in what's covered as 'news'. Simple politics and ratings. I usually tune in to UK TV channels than I do US for news, that too very rarely. Sad but true. - Moushumi Kabir
I see more news from my Iranian friends than news TV news outlets. - Moushumi Kabir
Cnn lost. - Stalyn☂
My last thought on this, no matter what happens, US definitely needs to stay out. It's Iran's internal matter just as 2004 re-election of Bush was our internal matter. As shocking as it was to the rest of the world (I still struggle with the fact ppl I know actually voted for him - twice!!), US did vote for Bush the second time. - Moushumi Kabir
For people interested in tracking what is happening regarding the irannian election on Twitter, here is a dashboard: http://www.twazzup.com/search... An amazing showcase of how new forms of communication make it much harder for dictatorships to control people! - Edwin Khodabakchian
ridiculous.. thank god for the internet. fourthing http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/ - Harrison Powers
It's difficult to get a right news even for me who know Persian, Iranian Tv doesn't support anything about street riots at all, Face book and You tube are filtered over there! No SMS! No mobile, even FF is filtered for them ! :| - Shandiz
sucks to live in a country without freedom :( - David Lloyd
Agree w/ Moushumi Kabir!US MUST stay out of this. - Shandiz
"Horrid coverage" -- otherwise known as typical. Shame shame! - Andy Sternberg from fftogo
Good "on the ground" coverage over at allvoices http://www.allvoices.com/Iran - Joel Richman
What did CNN do-so horridly...is that a word. That's twice in 2 weeks. - Teriss
Download Livestation to see more coverage - Eric Haber from Nambu
re: Teriss - comparing cnn.com to twazzup.com at 10:08 PM Central, CNN has NO MENTION of Iran and twazzup has 3 of 10 Hot Topics about Iran ... looks like CNN is NOT the place to find 'Breaking News'. - Don Strickland
Really strange. - Jim Hague
I really like Don Lemon but he seems to think CNN isn't doing anything wrong, which bugs me. http://twitter.com/donlemoncnn - Shawn Farner
CNN finally pipes up and mentions Facebook pictures inciting violence in Iran - but no update. Oh, yeah, and the fact that access to internet has been cut off. Is that the only news?Now on to the Letterman/Palin fight! I am heading back to online updates. - Liza
I often find US cable TV insular when it comes to foreign affairs - coverage of Barack Obama's recent speech in Egypt was a case in point. But CNN ignoring the Iranian protests is shameful. - Peter Dowley
I am an Iranian, protest people are alone, they have no leader and don't what to do, wish somebody help us :(( - Zahra (raoros)
I was always kinda of excited about the prospect of a 24 hour news network. Imagine how many more stories or how much more in-depth you could got on a single item. That really didn't happen. Covering stories, particularly any story happening outside NY or LA, is expensive. So we saw CNN put on a bunch of shows with pundits. They leaned to the left, so FOX could come along and lean to... more... - Matthew McCowan
Twitter is susceptible to manipulation by propagandists--for example the protests in Moldavia. In that case it was a legit election that the protesters just didn't like the result of. A flash mob does not a majority make. - Joe Knapp
Joe: good point, but many of us didn't fall for that crap and even then it cleaned itself out pretty quickly. - Robert Scoble
CNN died in 2001, when Tom Johnson retired. Quite a few of the top talent left around the same time, not wanting to be part of Jamie Kellner's efforts to be more like FOX. Cable "news" is a ghetto, and I never, ever, ever turn it on. Robert, you'll enjoy this: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai... - John Craft
Looks like CNN is finally picking up the coverage today. Christiane Amanpour is live in Teheran. - Nils Sandin
Just starring to catch up to last nights events. Amazing the lack of big media coverage on Iran. - Robert Wilkins
Been watching CNN International in China for two days and I can't agree with you. The reporting seems to be matching what I'm seeing on BBC and reading in NYTimes and Twitter. Saying they should be "ashamed" is a bit invective. - David Geller
"CNN International . . . seems to be matching what I'm seeing on BBC and reading in NYTimes and Twitter." - CNN-I is a totally separate production team, and has a totally different business model from CNN-"Domestic." - John Craft
Crowds gather for Ahmadinejad victory rally http://news.bbc.co.uk/1... - David Lloyd
http://www.thenation.com/blogs... - "Iran's Ex-Foreign Minister Yazdi: It's A Coup" - John Craft
Robert Scoble: three bloggers have been on top of Iran developments: Andrew Sullivan, Juan Cole and Robert Dreyfuss. It seems safe to say now that we have just witnessed a coup in Iran. - Sean McBride
Amazing video from the BBC of the demonstrations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... - Joe Wood
What's new? - Kreg Steppe
Yep, "CNN- The Lamest International News Team on Television" - Dean Kakridas
CNN: Cable No News network. - Robert Scoble
interwebz wins again! - stefan
who makes the decisions over there at Cnn? - Denise
All these comments are so stupid and ill-informed. Not a single one of you has ever tried to take a camera crew into a totalitarian country. I have. You don't just walk around. Easy to twitter for one person. Very hard to get pictures! Go and try it, and until then. Shut up! - Prokofy Neva
@Sean, i agree we have witnessed a coup--the sustained fight lasting a week with people in the street every day, making police run away, NYT editorial by Reuel Marc Gerecth has a good analysis of what it means, and AlJazeera http://www.youtube.com/watch... has a good analysis. the action on the streets is having a huge effect, not just on Iran but on the Middle East. - Eleanor Wynn
Prokofy Neva, agreed that no new organizations can get in there, but any of the news channels could rebroadcast key videos, photographs and analysis of this very major geopolitical event--it is really disgusting to go through the TV channels and see the dreck that is on when something major is happening--our local news channels will cover a weather event non-stop, why doesn't a major channel cover this/ - Eleanor Wynn
the citizen journalism tells the story in a way noone else could. you are right there in the middle of the crowd with all the changes of pace and direction, the shaky camera itself tells a story and the sounds. it is like actually being there--that is why the twitter and youtube coverage is the real coverage--they don't have to process, package and add a local angle to it that waters down the effect - Eleanor Wynn
Amira
f(z) = z² + c - siyahrenk
siyahrenk.. Is it it some formula to make a good pic? :) - Amira
That formula generates the Mandelbrot set which when plotted in color looks a bit like your photo above. - Fred Yankowski
you can explore the Mandelbrot set here: http://www.boutell.com/fracste... - John Hardy
Thanks, I didn't know it.. just checked.. it remind again that most of things is a clear mathematic.. :) - Amira
this is a screen grab from a new movie called earth, or world, or?? not that informative, pretty visuals but a slow jerky overflight videol that has the message we have only ten years left to save the planet, loveley music, much like that bbc show of pretty earth visuals, but hard to watch in its jerky movements - daviza
Daviz...It's a great movie, amazing views of Earth...thanks for sharing... - Amira
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