OT: Blogging to Break Free

It's always interesting to see the ways that technology, and blogging in particular, is impacting real people. For American student James Karl Buck, blogging helped spring him from an Egyptian jail.

Pretty amazing, right? Buck was in Egypt working on his masters thesis in photography. Snapping pics of a protest that turned ugly, he was thrown in jail with the anti-government protestors. From his cell phone he sent a one-word blog post, "Arrested," to his page on the Twitter networking site.

Now, Buck's trying to get his translator, only at the protest to help Buck, out of prison as well. Read more if you get a chance. It's pretty interesting stuff.