Super-filtered #IranElection info for the easily overwhelmed

I am blogging this from a wifi-enabled plane somewhere above a square state in the USA. The passenger sitting next to me is frustrated that no cable news is shown on the plane -- she wanted to keep up with the turmoil in Iran during this 6-hour flight. Several fellow passengers agreed that one of the feelings shared around the Iran story is the sense that so much information from new, unfamiliar sources seems to be flooding us, without good filters, or many trusted, authoritative guides.

And overall, cable news is doing a lousy job anyway. Blowhard anchors reading random tweets, and logging on to Facebook groups? Thanks, but I can do that myself -- without the theatrics.

Over email, John Perry Barlow echoed this: "It's happening so fast I can't digest it. I feel I've stuck a probe into the stream of metaconscious."

With that ambient chaos in mind, Current TV's Robin Sloan has compiled a very useful tool: "Super-filtered #IranElection info for the easily overwhelmed." Go have a look.

Update: Here's another helpful resource from Robin: Persian tweets translated to English.

Previously:

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Anonymous

thank you so much for this! i’m a foreign student living abroad in a country where i don’t speak the language well, and this is very helpful
JayCruz

“Blowhard anchors reading random tweets, and logging on to Facebook groups? Thanks, but I can do that myself — without the theatrics.”

You really hit the nail on the head with that one.
arbitraryaardvark

[David Bernstein, June 22, 2009 at 12:56pm] Trackbacks
Helping the Iranian Protestors:
This seems like a good idea for Twitterphiles:
Do you twitter? Change your twitter setting to GMT +3:30 (Tehran time) and your location to any city in Iran. If all of us are Iranians then it is a little harder for government censors to track down Iranian tweeters. (See list of Iranian cities at http://is.gd/13UCt.)
H/T: Kathleen Bergin.
holtt

Xeni thanks for posting this. I was missing BB’s coverage of Iran.