The Revolution in Egypt is now two weeks old. Through euphoria, life-and-death battles, weddings in Tahrir, and the focus of the world we come down to … stalemate and waning media attention. Egyptian Twitter martyrs have proclaimed Tahrir Square liberated turf and they are working out their new society on this tiny plot of land, surrounded by hostile forces. The Internet lines are open and we have the free flow of information that will be the foundation of a new government. Anyone involved in communication should be thrilled to live through this and to facilitate, in any small way, the continuance of this global movement. It’s about freedom of choice, freedom of information, freedom to connect globally in any way we choose. Chinese authorities have been censoring out the word “Egypt” from searches. Authoritarian regimes are frightened by events in Egypt. A sampling of current news:

Evening in Tahrir Square: “Everyone here is awake,� Mr. Abdel-Moneim said as he passed an army checkpoint where a soldier urinated on his tank. “I might be weary, but when the morning comes, I can breathe freedom. What I’ve seen here is what I’ve never seen in my life.� At Night, Protest Gives Way to Poetry The New York Times

ERBIL, Iraq — In the morning of Thursday, Jan. 27, a group of Iraqi journalists huddled around a 15-inch MacBook Pro screen inside of one of the conference rooms of the Erbil Rotana hotel. We were at grand wooden conference tables, our plush leather chairs wheeling about the newly carpeted floor.

It was the unlikely setting for a brief 15-minute session on digital subversion. Read The Revolution Was Electrified – The Next Page / Good morning, Egypt: A revolution fueled by the Internet, and the new power of women

Twitter: @Alaa @RamyRaoof @aGharbeia @monasosh @Sandmonkey @WaelAbbas @3arabawy

Egyptian TV: Missing Google exec to be released Monday

(CNN) — Wael Ghonim, a Google executive who has been missing for more than a week following his purported arrest in Cairo, is to be released Monday, according to two Egyptian television news networks.

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Sunday Wrap-up

Mahmoud Salem, an Egyptian who blogs as Sandmonkey, wrote on Twitter Sunday:

I’ve been to Tahrir Square today. My prediction was correct. The March 8 model is taking over. It has become a tent city. The people have a stage and a PA system set-up, there are stations for mobile charging, food vendors, people form all walks of life.

The situation is completely safe now. People were coming all day today. I hear the mass held there was beautiful. Today, a christian mass was held in Tahrir, two people got married, and a couple is spending their honeymoon there. Awesome.

This is what makes me proud of our revolution: It has brought our people together, it’s fearless yet peaceful, & very sophisticated.

Can u imagine the briefing Mubarak gets on Tahrir now? Singing, poetry reciting, religious service, weddings, honeymooners…. Awesome

Gigi Ibrahim, Cairo, Egypt, Twitter:@Gsquare86

They’re liquid, mobile, digital savvy, adaptive Warriors fighting a nasty regime, surrounded by enemies with sticks and knives and Molotov cocktails but they go on fighting with the powerful weapon … Twitter. This revolution is Twitterized more than any other.

Bloggers have an obligation to echo the reports streaming from Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Egypt and around the Arab world to create a great echo through the Internet of the struggles of people to communicate and peacefully protest. Shutting down the Internet for a week in Egypt was a reminder, if we needed any, that one of the first moves of a dictatorial regime is to cut off the means of communication and harass, attack and attempt to control the media. We are the media. #jan25 #egypt #Tahrir

Twitter: @Alaa @RamyRaoof @aGharbeia @monasosh @Sandmonkey @WaelAbbas @3arabawy

RamyRaoof on Bambuser - raw, live footage on the ground mobile video the the web from the heart of Tahrir Square where they are powering the revolution through public electricity. The adaptable digital revolutionary.

Could U.S. Shut Down the Internet? CNN

Twitter:  Americans from New York doing a solidarity march in Tahrir chanting ‘free free Egypt’ #Tahrir

Young Sudanese Start Protest Movement by Jeffrey Gettleman, NY Times

NAIROBI, Kenya — The messages starting going up on Facebook about two weeks ago, to any Sudanese who cared.

“The people of Sudan will not remain silent anymore,� said a Facebook group called Youth for Change. “It is about time we demand our rights and take what’s ours in a peaceful demonstration that will not involve any acts of sabotage.�