Stone Soup

I have been following the events in Iran this past week and especially this weekend. My television is often tuned to CNN, I am following Mir Hossein Mousavi's Facebook page (you can see it here) and have been watching tweets pour in on Twitter, even retweeting some of them just to help. 

Twitter has changed from a social networking site to a social infrastructure site.  What an amazing tool it has turned out to be!  Search for any of these hashtags in Twitter and you will be able to watch live updates on Twitter:  #Iran #Tehran #Neda (the girl they killed in the street) #iranelection


I changed my Twitter account profile to say my location is Terhan, Iran and I changed my time to Terhan time.  The Iranian government is searching for Iranian bloggers so they can stop them and punish them.  Protesters are asking for over 1 million people to change their location to Iran to foil the government, slowing their progress in locating real Iranian bloggers.  I believe in free speech and free press coverage around the world--a government should not be allowed to shoot people in the streets without the rest of the world knowing and condemning them for it.

Read why Twitter is still working in Iran here