A monument to the idea

Is Malcolm Gladwell following this stuff?

In Egypt and Tunisia:

Images of the lowly challenging the mighty have been relayed from one capital to the next, partly through the aggressive coverage of Al Jazeera. Social networking sites like Facebookand Twitter have given the protesters a potent weapon, enabling them to elude the traditional police measures to monitor and curb dissent. But various regimes have fallen back on a more traditional playbook, relying on security forces to face angry demonstrators on the streets.

I wonder if Gladwell would like to revise his opinion piece about why the revolution will not be tweeted. If the revolution were not being tweeted, the Egyptian government wouldn’t be going to such great lengths to make sure its citizens can’t access the internet.

Meanwhile, here’s a social media site for news and info about the protests in Egypt.

From earlier: Malcolm Gladwell is wrong about social media