Travis Reuling's List: Digital Citizenship

• "Governments are increasingly cognizant of their power,"
• Much of the 50-minute town hall, however, focused on the role of Twitter and Facebook in organizing protests in Egypt. "The power of this technology, the power of social networking to channel and champion public sentiment, has been more evident in the past few weeks than ever before," Rice said.
• Egyptian government shut off access to the Internet, the impact of social media can no longer be dismissed — especially when it’s acknowledged by the U.N.

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• • The actual FaceBook page of Khaled Said

• On Jan. 27, just before the Egyptian government turned off the Internet for all Egyptians, Facebook saw six times more traffic than Google inside the country.
• April 6 Youth Movement who wanted to unseat Mubarak prior to the scheduled September 2011 elections.
• Wael Ghonim anonymously started a Facebook page to commemorate the death of Khaled Said, beaten to death by police for flaunting drug possession online.
• — We are all Khaled Said — had accumulated 130,000 fans, according to the New York Times. Ghonim this week said that the page has 375,000 followers. (The English-language site visible to U.S. Facebookers has just over 71,000 followers.)
• Anger built, as did the popularity of Facebook and Twitter as a means to vent that anger.
• , news of which also blew through Twitter and over mobile phones via SMS.
• It's like the entire Internet forgot where Egypt was

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