In this NYT article by David Kirkpatrick (Feb. 1, 2011), there's a clear mention of the connection between social networking and the Egypt protests. EXCERPT: "Mr. Mubarak’s grip on power just two weeks after a group of young political organizers called on Facebook for a day of protest inspired by the ouster of another Arab strongman, in Tunisia."

I'd love to hear what Malcolm Gladwell, who famously wrote in Oct. 2010 that social media can't affect social change, has to say about all this. @kleinmatic's tweet gets it right: #Egypt cut off the Internet to prevent Malcolm Gladwell from being wrong.

This is one of the many threads I've pulled together in a social-media resource guide at http://bit.ly/egyptsoc