The Orange Chair

The NYTimes.com has very good coverage on the situation in Iran, including an article pertaining to the social of Web 2.0 technology there:
Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online – NYTimes.com. I am struck by how actively platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are being used inside and outside of Iran. So much so, in fact, that Twitter had one of their infrastructure service providers postpone a outage to maximize access to the service by the people of Iran. (The outage is now scheduled for 1:30 am in Iran: middle of the afternoon in the U.S.). 

Like Obama did during the election and afterward, Iranians are doing many things, including changing how people perceive social networks.