Obelisk set up in Tahrir Square with martyrs names engraved on it.

Posted by Egyptians in the US Facebook Page, in the photoset labeled, “Tahrir Square Jan 25, 2012 around 4:00 PM”

Graffiti in #Tahrir of wanted poster for CSF officer seen in video shooting the eyes of protesters and celebrating / via @sharifkouddous

Flickr Images from Revolutionary Cairo by Hrag Vartanian

If Twitter has been dominating the discussion of social media and the current protests in Egypt, they aren’t the only social network filling the intertubes with oodles of information created by everyday people, media professionals, and governmental forces.

Sure the other social media channels have suffered because of the internet clampdown that made their use near impossible but now that the country of Egypt is (kinda) connected again to the World Wide Web, we can go beyond Twitter’s textual minimalism to explore more vivid realities, notably Flickr…. READ MORE.

More updates on Egypt: Fire rumors abound via Unverified Tweets: Egyptian Museum In the Middle of Turmoil as molotov cocktails fly and Database Launches to Track Artifact Looting in Egypt.

In Photos: Walking in Cairo During a Revolution by Danny Ramadan

Cairo — I won’t lie to you. I was scared yesterday. I got in a fight with a group of passersby in one of the poorest neighborhood in Cairo. The people thought I was reporting for Al-Jazeera, the Qatari-based news channel that has been the target of major government propaganda over the last few days. People were pulling me from my clothes, hitting me on my back and dragging me to the floor until I was saved by a reasonable police officer who pretended to arrest me and my friends to calm the crowds….. READ MORE.

More on Egypt: Danny Ramadan reports further on his experiences in Cairo with more photos while Saying Goodbye to Egypt; Hrag Vartanian brings news that Pyramids of Giza Reportedly Damaged.

Breaking: Images of Egyptian Museum Damage [UPDATE 25] by Hrag Vartanian

UPDATE 24: Sat. Jan 29 12:43pm EST: Al-Jazeera has broadcast video of the damage at the National Museum, aka Egyptian Museum. The strange thing about these images is that they demonstrate that the damage is certainly more than a few mummies, which is what Reuters reported that Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, had said on state television…. READ MORE.