Many interesting posts at boingboing covering Iran -- here's one of them:

- Whether social media is enabling, causing or otherwise driving the protests in Iran
- How Iranian users are managing to access the internet despite widespread filtering
- The ethics (and practice) of distributed denial of service attacks as a form of information warfare
- Whether such online activities are unprecedented
Rather than tell you what I and colleagues have been saying to reporters, I'll point you to one of the better stories, by Anne-Marie Corley in MIT's Technology Review - she interviews several of my Berkman and Open Net Initiative colleagues and outlines the argument many of us are making:
- Social media is probably more important as a tool to share the
protests with the rest of the world than it is as an organizing tool on
the ground.
- Iranians have been accessing social networking sites and blogging
platforms despite years of filtering - there's a cadre of folks who
understand how to get around these blocks and are probably teaching
others.
- Because so many Iranians use social media tools - often to talk about
topics other than politics - they're a "latent community" that can come
to life and have political influence when events on the ground dictate.
(via):
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- Iran Elections Crisis: Online Reading List - Boing Boing
- Iran SMS networks "mysteriously" fail right before elections ...
- Iran: Activists Launch Hack Attacks on Tehran Regime - Boing Boing
- Iran: Tim Shey on Observing Social Unrest Online at 32000 feet ...
- Super-filtered #IranElection info for the easily overwhelmed
- Cyberwar Guide for Iran Elections