One photo: The revolution will be photographed

Posted at 11:09 AM on January 31, 2011 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)

If you click on this photograph, you'll get a bigger size. It will also reveal why it's difficult to suppress information, even if Egypt has "disconnected the Internet." Note the number of cellphone cameras.

Meanwhile, a few thousand Americans are trying to get out of Egypt. The last of the band members from Augustana College in Sioux Falls made it out of Egypt early this morning.

(Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

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Comments (2)

Imagine getting reporting like this in the 70's. It's hard not to ascribe this rebellion to the ubiquity of information via Facebook & Twitter.

All of a sudden, we're living in the future.

Posted by Tyler | January 31, 2011 11:24 AM

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Here is an article on Digital Trends that mentions Egyptians going "old school" to get their messages out. The cell phone cameras aren't much good if the towers are turned off. (And it sounds like that is the case.) The article mentions fax machines, ham radio and dial-up modems. The article doesn't say much, but I'd be curious if any of the Hams are using packet radio to create links to the outside.

One thing the article does mention is that one ISP, the one that services the Egyptian Stock Exchange, is still operating. So there is some bandwidth available.

Posted by JackU | January 31, 2011 12:33 PM

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