Twitter

[betsmate]

For all its criticism about teenagers telling each other what they are having for breakfast and vacuous celebrities updating their "fans", this is where a tool like twitter comes into its own:

http://twitter.com/persiankiwi

 

[Harbinger]

Various blogs are outperforming the traditional media quite substantially regarding what's going on in Iran at the moment. Andrew Sullivan's is a pretty good starting point:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/