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- brisketplease, on 06/18/2009, -1/+27i gotta say that i really killed it with this post!!! mad props to me.
- lovek, on 06/18/2009, -0/+19You know what the best part about the internet is for you? That I'm on it.
You're welcome, world. - ohplease, on 06/18/2009, -1/+18Twitterati? Can someone hit this ineffectual douchebag with a spiked bat, please?
- brisketplease, on 06/18/2009, -6/+23stop bragging
- drgmdp, on 06/18/2009, -1/+17this guy twitted a link to a DDoS tool targeted at some official iranian sites.. and he makes it sound as if he poisoned the ayatollah's soup
- slifty, on 06/18/2009, -0/+14Yo check this out - I'm doing a kickass job at following up on this thread of conversation.
- TheJimid, on 06/18/2009, -1/+12You can't beat the internets, there are just to many tubes for this stuff to go through.
- sjd8, on 06/18/2009, -4/+15It was Edmund Burke who said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
And while i applaud this Josh Koster character for being a good man and doing something - what's frightening is when good men (and in the case of this Iranian election - lots of good women) do something and evil still triumphs? Then what do you do? - inactive, on 06/18/2009, -3/+14This article was highly self-praising. I didn't like the tone.
- jbd4d, on 06/18/2009, -6/+16An ingenious way to harvest the power of twitter to halt government propaganda from an ocean away!
- Wuss, on 06/18/2009, -3/+11Credit given to Twitter in this whole situation is mis directed. Twitter just happens to be the "hot" thing amongst mainstream users. It's currently the most convenient way for people ,who learn their tech news from the 6pm news, to post information.
If Twitter didn't exist, there's still plenty of outlets (and always has been) for news to aggregate quickly in real time across the planet. Chat rooms, Facebook, youtube, blog posts, email, instant messaging, text messaging, etc. All of these are also accessible via mobile, which is key. Twitter just took things that were already simple, to an even dumber level for people like Ryan Seacrest and some guy who calls himself "P Diddy" to use.
There's really nothing ingenious about it. Media is just riding the twitter wave and tagging it to the incredible things happening in Iran.
Look at Qik. Site has been around for a while (relative to web two oh sites). A handful of people have been broadcasting live from right smack dab in the middle of some of the riots in Iran using Qik. Now THAT's f*n awesome to me. Live video and audio streaming from the farthest distance on the planet from a freakin cell phone. NOT a poorly strung together sentence just telling you that people are getting angry. But Qik.com is not as cool as Twitter............yet. - blakecr, on 06/18/2009, -1/+8............................................________
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...................................,<\..\_|\_,-&\\................\\ - Degriz, on 06/18/2009, -3/+9ok lets stop the orgy of self congratulations right there. Get back, its a trap!
- nepidae, on 06/18/2009, -1/+6twitter is to communication as 4chan is to culture
- JohnnySoftware, on 06/18/2009, -1/+5No, actually - the article WASN'T highly self praising. If you actually RTFA, it's a chronological description of what happened. What the author did, what acquaintances did for him, what happened to web servers to which these things were being done.
"Let me be clear: This most definitely would have happened without me. All told, I probably only broadcasted directly to about two hundred people."
I would like to see someone communicate how a declaration like that is self-praising?
Anyone can pen a one-line negative critique. Not everyone can have a major impact, know what it happened, describe it with clarity - and have the humility to include in that description that it not only could but would have happened without them.
I'm less sure that you read the article than I am it was self-praising. To be such, the guy who wrote it would have to praise himself and you would have to be able to count the number of times he praised himself and the magnitude of the statements.
The extent of his positive descriptions about himself are limited to: a) "I work in new media", b) "people I work with really know how to make some noise".
I'm not supporting what he did and I do not know offhand what all the unintended good/bad unintended consequences are. But come-on, title aside, that article was far from highly self-praising.
If you did not like the title - then just say so. If you think you would have liked the article more - perhaps a lot more, with a different title - then say that. It's possible to be positive & constructive about something you find a fault or two with. People general consider that helpful & polite.
As for the title, that seems like a "hook" to me. People are going to read that and go, "What? No way, dude - you're delusional". But, read the article. He's really not. Maybe there were other things going on and he was not 100% right in the conclusion. The theme was "man against machine" and he described the mechanics of what was going on in such a way as to educate the public who read.
If that is your intent, people have to read the article in the first place and the title probably helped bring that about. Sure, lots of people would probably be temporarily biased against the article and extra skeptical. However, reading what he said there are not a lot of individual facts, math, or logic to to pick at and say, "there he is wrong".
Me personally, I not happy when people crash web sites or web sites crash by accident. - thdavis, on 06/18/2009, -5/+9I read an article about this event earlier this week on economist.com, (found here: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/ ... in which the author cited this event as "a fine case of crowd-sourced table-turning", but also talked about the potential dangers. I agree that we need to be careful about appearing as those Darned Meddling(American) Kids in this event, but it's freakin' sweet to see Twitter flex its muscles in such an important event as this.
- nepidae, on 06/18/2009, -10/+14***** twitter
- FredFredrickson, on 06/18/2009, -4/+8Can we just shut the ***** up about Twitter, please? The same thing would have happened with blogs, or with other media if Twitter hadn't happened to be the "hot" thing right now.
By the way, what is stopping me, a white man living in the US, from getting on Twitter and pretending to be a suppressed Iranian? Not that I doubt that there is a lot of ***** going down there right now, but let's not pretend that Twitter is or will ever be capable of taking the spot of news that is presented without bias and with credibility behind it.
Twitter is a micro-blogging site where thousands of people bark 140 letter sentences at each other. That's not enough, and it should never be. Stop shoving this Twitter ***** down our throats, please. - shrudheuie, on 06/18/2009, -0/+4An interesting take on DoS. It's kind of scary how effective that little site is. It's like a DIY DoS for non-hackers. It will probably be forced to reconfigure itself by the new technology czar. Either way, good job guy. I mean that, no sarcasm.
A perfect title would have been "how my gloriously wonderful couch potato ass took down Iran's BS servers while sitting behind my desk between WoW and Magic the Gathering sessions." That was a little sarcastic. - kalosnycta, on 06/18/2009, -1/+5I have never seen a script kiddie DDoS attack hyped with such messianic, god-mode language. C'mon guy, this isn't the Google pagerank algorithm you wrote here, this is a DDoS attack distributed among 40 people. It's for a good cause and all, but this is hardly revolutionary.
- fresh27, on 06/18/2009, -0/+3yeah, no kidding about the dangers. there are a ton of spammers and complete ***** out there using this to their advantage or to just mess with people. i just saw another link on digg about the band hoobastank sending thousands of people to goatse by posting fake iran updates: http://digg.com/music/Hoobastank_Band_Hijacks_Twit ...
- iloveburritos, on 06/18/2009, -0/+3Is that Gandalf in that picture?
- landrypants, on 06/19/2009, -0/+2possibly just as useless
- kernel16, on 06/19/2009, -0/+2I guess this guy felt so good he stopped bothering to follow up, turns out DDOSing any site slowed up the whole network in Iran.
- kernel16, on 06/19/2009, -0/+2If you can't beat em, join em. At some point I want to be a rich filthy republican with a hot young blonde third wife and promote the bible and ***** while doing coke on the side, but not yet. Maybe in my 40s, can't wait.
- Calypsoaf, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3stop bragging
- inactive, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3The internet is leading the Iran election coverage. This makes about as much sense as anything I've seen on CNN about Iran. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5doiiGgcGGM
- kaosethema, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3sometimes, all you can do is fight until you die.
death does not mean the fight will stop.
someone will continue the fight for you.
but they need your example to follow.
“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.” -MLK - Charun, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1Josh Koster is his own biggest fan.
- bizkit00, on 06/19/2009, -0/+1It's the vast mostly-unregulated internet, there is no morality here.
- sulthernao, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1One person in Ohio who was providing proxies got attacked by a bunch of Iranian/Lebanese men. So, yes, there are real dangers involved.
- FredFredrickson, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1You get on a website called Twitter and post messages from your cell phone until it stops, right?
- egemenbor, on 06/18/2009, -1/+2a good thing they did this too seems to have solved the crises over there..thanks guys...
oh wait...
i guess the fact that theres millions of people protesting over there wasnt enough proof that a majority of the people in Iran can see past this propaganda.. - whatthefu, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1If lovek wasn't on the internet this would be a horrifying world indeed.
- brisketplease, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1no
- brisketplease, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1what an incredibly lame and robotic thing to say!
- Whatsthetimecod, on 06/19/2009, -0/+14chans part of a social revolution? it's saved lives? It's given people a voice? discovered the missing? helped countless causes? raised more money then most social networks combined? and for a good cause? has it found jobs?
Find positive in things and you'll be a better person for it. - riot9, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1Do you have a link? I heard an interview with the person from Ohio that you're speaking of, and all he said he's received threats. If he was actually attacked, I'd love to read about it.
- orvtech, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1Yes you did sir
- uzytkownik, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1Whom did you crashed? I guess that the main problem is not reaching people around the world (probably mostly young, educated and relativly rich [even if not in their country standards]). The main problem is probably reaching so-called 'average' people. Of corse a freedom of speach (i.e. breaking barricade) for few is much better then for noone but stil I'd call it a victory...
- sulthernao, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1No, not besides twitter:
"Leaving for college now. Not sure if I'll be permitted to tweet from class. If not, will write full summary of events between classes.
Am safe, hidden away. Will continue to post reports from Iran, no more info about me.
Details: was attacked by single vehicle throwing rocks while walking. Am safe now, though not in contact with anyone in Iran.
@recordedbooks No, I live in America.
I'm fine, filed police report (though they seemed uninterested) Huffington Post will be posting more details at some point."
https://twitter.com/ProtesterHelp - Niocan, on 06/19/2009, -1/+1Halt the propaganda? More like spread it, but the republic of Iran is smart enough to see through the BS.
- ben4prez, on 06/19/2009, -0/+0Josh is a rockstar
- mybad4990, on 06/18/2009, -1/+1You keep at it..Keep going and never give up. Because eventually, if you try hard enough, you'll either win or they'll get tired of trying to shut you up. The American revolution was not won easily, and neither will the fight for democracy in Iran. But if the Iranian people keep trying and increasing their rebel numbers, they WILL eventually win.
- CaughtThinking, on 06/18/2009, -1/+1No, the mob is always right! Especially the self-important 5 seconds of fame masturbatory writing mob!
- Haplo, on 06/19/2009, -1/+1Heh, in your ignorance you overlooked that what you are doing is not that much different from micro-blogging at twitter. Maybe the 140 character limit over there would have added some clue/sense to you message, something it now lacks.
- Whatsthetimecod, on 06/18/2009, -5/+5yeah! communication is so ***** stupid!
- DontThinkSo, on 06/18/2009, -5/+2Is twitter the new anonymous?
- outlawstarc, on 06/18/2009, -7/+2Yeah, The CIA is supporting Mousavi fyi... its just a coup staged by the U.S. so don't think you're "twittering" did anything important.
Your "online activism" just needs a little more work... and maybe a look at the facts too. - gamerbambi, on 06/18/2009, -9/+21KrazyKorean is Social Media "Guru"
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