Over the past several weeks I have noticed State Department presence on an increasingly wide variety of sites across the internet-at-large. this week the pace has picked up exponentially -Case in point:
" First of all this is the first time I have ever done this ( certainly ) on Gather©. Reblogs are quite acceptable, all but de rigeur- Even by the State Department ( in Iran ) or so it would seem. Stories are leaking out around the world, while we speak. As I type this NBC and MSNBC are covering 'Cell Phones', 'Smart Phones' and 'Twitter' 3 in Iran ( Iraq & The Holy Land in General ) 4 ... ".
Eric Cabot Steed, a.k.a. Singulus, 6:30 PM Eastern, 16 June 2009
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3 It isn't quite over. Time Magazine has been fanning the flames a little and I've added the details here. Just finished hacking the code.
4 Three years ago I was 'surfing' Google Images when I noticed a series of particularly 'striking' photos obviously taken from a state-of-the-art military helicopter. Upon closer examination I discovered these photos were part of a 'family' album stored on Webshots.
As I examined them carefully I noticed two things, a Marine Colonel ( Ret. ) climbed on board with the team ( Obviously by now I had determined the young man, who worked for the State Department in Irag, had posted the pictures ) and they flew to an Officers Club just outside of Baghdad. They had a couple of drinks, shook hands, and the Retired Colonel flew back to the United States. This particular Colonel, whose name I will not mention, is now and ever has been one of the most recognizable personalities in the history of the Corps.
At that point-in-time there were over eleven million paid cell-phones in service within the Holy Land.
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wow I had no idea there were so many cell phones in use there.
Some of our troops 'in-country' at the moment have, on their person, up tp five levels of communication, including cell-phone technology. It would appear that they are also plugged in to Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter ( as well as Gather ).
Yes, sometimes technology can be a headache, but then again at times, such as the Iranian, election it can make all the difference in the world.
People living in countries ruled by dictators need a way to communicate their experiences to the world at large.