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Iran Election Crisis: 10 Incredible YouTube Videos
Mashable! —
It’s no secret that social media’s played an important – maybe even historic – role in the Iran election protests that have swept the nation into discord and disarray. Many social media companies have made a contribution towards opening the flow of communication within and out of Iran, YouTube included.
As we reported earlier this week, thousands of Iran-related videos are being uploaded to YouTube every day, revealing first-hand accounts of the crisis to the world. Some are incredible, some are eye-opening, and other shock you to your very core. We’ve included ten of these incredible videos, in a ...
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The Agitator —
Andrew Sullivan has some pretty amazing coverage of the last 24 hours.
I just watched the video on YouTube of the female protester who was shot in the heart. Crushing. Terrifying. Brought tears to my eyes. But thank goodness it was captured and posted.
We may never know with 100 percent certainty whether the election was fixed, though it sure seems that way. But one thing we sure as hell know now, the Iranian government’s reaction to those protesting the results has shown it to be wholly and morally illegitimate.
Government has been murdering its own citizens for as long as we’ve had government, ...
Iran: Neda Soltani (warning: graphic video)
Boing Boing —
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO / DEPICTS DEATH.
Via Andrew Sullivan, who is doing some of the best coverage of the Iran story online:
"At 19:05 June 20th Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart.
I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot ...
Iran: Neda (warning: graphic video)
Boing Boing —
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO / DEPICTS DEATH.
Via Andrew Sullivan, who is doing some of the best coverage of the Iran story online:
"At 19:05 June 20th Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart.
I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that ...
Neda: YouTube Video Too Distressing to Ignore
Mashable! —
Yesterday we published 10 Powerful YouTube Videos from Iran, including a particularly graphic video of an Iranian girl dying on the street – we now know her name, Neda. The deeply distressing video is becoming a defining moment in Iran’s disputed elections, in both social media and mainstream publications.
The video has now been picked up by TIME.com, USAToday’s On Deadline blog and Sky News. An LATimes blog, meanwhile, claims it is “becoming a rallying symbol for opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.” In all, Google News counts 26 news articles ...
#IranElection Crisis: A Social Media Timeline
Mashable! —
One of the striking aspects of the #IranElection crisis has been the heavy use of social media. Iranians have relied on it to spread information on protests and to communicate their situation to millions of concerned people worldwide.
In fact, so much has been recorded via social media that it is possible to understand the progression of events through it. Thus, we have built a timeline of events utilizing information recorded via social media. This timeline uses Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia to paint a broad picture of the situation, as well as the growing conversation around it. ...
“Neda” Death Video Captures Global Hearts
NewTeeVee —
In the two days since her death, a young Iranian woman has already become a legend, a martyr and a focal point for those in and outside the ongoing Iran election protests. Information about Neda Agha Soltan, including the most basic details of her first and last name, coalesced over the weekend, though there’s no definitive account ...
Neda And Iran's YouTube Revolution
Silicon Alley Insider —
More than Twitter, it is the ubiquity of digital cameras and the democratization of video publishing that makes this revolution so different. If it were up to CNN and the old school broadcast networks, you would have never heard of Neda, the 16-year-old Iranian girl. She was shot in the heart by Iranian Security Forces as the cell phone cameras rolled and her father stood by. More than some sophisticated Internet filtering program, these guardians of the TV screen were the real censors. They controlled the visual information pipeline. No longer. I saw Neda die for the first time last night from two different angles. I was at home in bed. It changed how ...
What Are Your Favorite Photos and Videos of 2009? #openwebawards
Mashable! —
Open Web Awards Nominations will remain open until 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, November 15th. Submit your nominations here.
The growth of multimedia content continues apace on the web, and 2009 is a year in which we saw Flickr’s 4 billionth photo and YouTube reach an astonishing 1 billion video views per day. The combined number of views for September’s top 10 most watched web series topped 93 million — and that’s just 10 of the thousands of web series from amateur and increasingly professional sources alike.
From dancing babies to fails to ...
500 Leading Nominees in Mashable’s #openwebawards
Mashable! —
Since we launched Mashable’s 3rd Annual Open Web Awards this past October, you’ve cast over 349,000 votes for your favorite nominees. Over the past few weeks we’ve continued to track the leaders in each category, and now, with just two days left in the nominations period we thought it would be appropriate to take a look at 500 of the current leaders in the competition’s 50 categories.
Below are 500 of the top nominated individuals, tools, and organizations (in no particular order) — each selected by you, our readers. Add your voice to this list by nominating your favorites at ...
