Thursday, 18 June 2009

Fresh protest under way in Tehran



Source BBC, here


Brady Forrest - O'Reilly Radar - Want a Map of Tehran
Brady Forrest, from O'Reilly Radar has written an excellent survey of the mapping initiatives of the major players in trying to track and publish photographs from the fallout around the Iran election by , Yahoo, Mapquest, Google, and Bing . His article, Want a Map of Tehran, is here



Other sources

Flickr Iran photos - last visited - Noon NZ time, 18th June, 09 - 279,152 images
You Tube - Iran videos - last visited , Noon NZ time, 18th June, 09 - 155 videos
Wikipedia - 2009 Iranian election protests - page changes a lot

Twitter
Twazzup; multiple twitter feeds and news updates

Twitter Update - Help Iran Election site
http://helpiranelection.com/
Puts a green overlay on your Twitter icon - see here, for details

Nat Torkington - on NZ National Radio
Spoke about Twitter and the Iranian protest. MP3 Audio, here. His online links are here.

Gawker
See especially this series of events from Gawker, here.

UK Channel 4
The Gawker time line includes this excellent UK Channel 4 video direct from Tehran the day after the election, where British journalist Lindsey Hilsum files this remarkable report, in which she says she feels as though she "went to sleep in one country and woke up in another."

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