A Thought or Two...

Just three months ago, anyone would have been hard pressed to guess at the great revival currently underway in Egypt. Fascinating, exciting times, and much of it brought about by new technology. As with everything else, technology hasn't been all good, or all progress, but this time, we can see a truly positive application of Facebook and Twitter power. So much so that the outgoing president had to shut down nation-wide Egyptian Internet service for a number of days, in an attempt to keep people from organizing themselves into crowds that he clearly no longer controls.

So... It's one for technology, and zero for another dictator's team. Great to see that new tech has had something really useful to provide in this instance, light-years beyond the superficial exchange of party pictures and other fluff that most of our networks shuffle over our planet every day.

Rest easy, walk peacefully on sand, pavement or snowflakes, and let's all be very thankful. We have reason to be.

Denis