A leaked State Security document titled 'An analytical study on blogs and electronic journalism' from 2006 was published recently on this site.

It starts with a brief history of ARPAnet and the Internet in general. Up to mentioning how to set up a blog and mentions both Instapundit and Technorati. It is full of inaccuracies and spelling mistakes. A preparatory school student can write a better school paper on the same subject.

The final comment …

في أزمة بنزين في البلد، لأني بركب عجلة لأغلب مشاويري ما عنديش مشكلة. عندي عربية بس مقنتع أن الدعم على البنزين للسيرات الملاكي هو اهدار لأموال الدولة على الغني اللي يقدر يشتري سيارة، اسعار البنزين لو أرتفعت الزحام هايقل.

توضيح: أنا باطالب رفع الدعم من على البنزين للملاكي، الأجره والنقل زي ما هو بالنسبة للسولار والبنزين

ثلاث شهداء سقطوا في هذا اليوم، شهود عيان آخرين قالوا انهم شاهدوا سيرات الأمن المركزي تسرع وتدهس المتظاهرين

رد فعل الحكومة الأنتقالية لكل هذا هو اعادة تفعيل و توسيع بنود قانون الطوارئ

Three protesters died in the clashes that followed the break into the Israeli embassy. The description says that this man was killed by central security forces …

This is a phone interview recorded with Margaret Prescod of Radio KPFK on the 2nd of February at around 3pm that day.

The phone call is super imposed on videos I took with Sarah Carr's flip camera.

One of the shots was taken by Youssef Faltas.

I remember when I first heard about Khaled Said's case. I didn't take notice of the name. Mohamed Abdel Aziz, the young and brilliant Nadim lawyer, sent and internal email saying that he contacted the family of a young man in Alexandria who they claim died from torture but the police says he fell from an ambulance stretcher.

Honestly, I hoped that the police's story is correct. It was going to be another statement by …

The Gallup poll on Egypt after Jan25 doesn't mention if the selection of face-to-face interviewees involved any form of randomisation. Yet, the American sample involved random digit dialling.

Information on the methods used is inadequate. We can't say the sample interviewed was representative and results generalisable without more information.

I hope they will publish something in the next few days with more details regarding the methodology.

Link: Egypt From Tahrir to Transition

In an interview with Al Jazeera when asked about Mubarak, Zahi Hawass said:

At the beginning he was a good leader, but actually if you look at ancient Egypt, we have the same story happened four thousands years ago. When the Pharaoh became old the people around him could gain power. And I think this what happened to president Mubarak. In his old age people began to appear and …