Egypt in 18 days

Al Jazeera's Tarek Bazley looks back at the last 18 days of protests in Egypt. Truly remarkable scenery.

Wael Ghonim's interview broadcast on Egypt's Dream TV

I found this video through latest tweets from RFE/RL's newsroom from a user @golnazes. I was redirected to the Wall Street Journal Blogs site to a post titled "the Interview with Wael Ghonim that Galvanized Protestors". Ever since last night when Ghonim spoke on Egypt's Dream TV I was trying to find his speech with subtitles, and so here it is. 

Ironically, I was actually reading an article about possible spill over effects of protests in Egypt in countries like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Egypt or how people interpret Twitter

Sometimes I feel like even Twitter users need to learn what is Twitter for and why or how people use it. You see, as we all know, major revolution was taking place in Egypt over the last week and many people around the world were supporting the cause and were spreading the word with Twitter's help. And it was an incredible source of information for me first hand. 

Other Twitter users (and yes, i am generalizing this time as I am sure there are many of these kind everywhere) think of you as some kind of an agent. 

I received this tweet on January 29th, from a user I don't know saying:

Translation: @arzugeybulla who do you work for spreading all this information about Egypt? (the Tweet is in Azerbaijani)

Strangely, it is not the first time I am asked this question. I just don't understand why is it when I, or anyone else is spreading any kind of information, should be put in box called "affiliation" and be asked this question? Of course, I don't know what this man had on the back of his mind when he was writing this tweet. Maybe it just came out, out of curiosity, or maybe he was truly interested? Either way, I think its the question itself that's bizarre. 

I told the guy that I am simply spreading the information, trying to get the word out there about what's going on in Egypt and that has nothing to do with me working for someone. But I doubt that a person who asked this kind of question in the first place will hardly understand my answer. But will see. If there is anything interesting that comes out of this conversation, surely I will keep you posted on the way it goes. 

Anyway, just wanted to share, who knows, maybe someone had similar experience?