A revolutionary with no sense of history

"The rapid pace of events drove home one of the key strategies I learned from the revolution: to achieve your vision, you need friends and communication channels more than you need plans," Ghonim writes. "The world moves too fast for even the best-laid plans to hold up."

The Bugle podcast that if the Internet ruled the world

British comedian John Oliver recently joked on The Bugle podcast that if the Internet ruled the world, at that time government would as a rule consist of imposing the death penalty on bands that people don't like. Lenin would probably have liked that one.