Could be nice use of ajax to load everything on the fly - and not have to wait for flash or silverlight crap.

And I like nice interactive charts to represent the information and a nice layout that lets me find what I want easily. I don't want to be trailing through pages of text, that would just suck!

That does indeed suck. I wonder why they would choose a company with bad design and accessibility skills to "design" the new site. Table based layout and Microsoft technologies? Awful! Maybe they're Microsoft "certified" and some idiot thinks that's a good thing.

PASS IT AROUND accessing twitter from 148.233.239.24 Port:80 in tehran. you can avoid gov filters from here. spread to others

Can't we do something to help? Maybe set-up a server for them to communicate, have some extra ips at hand if anything gets blocked? I feel bad for these people, surely we should be doing something?

Same here, i'm gone! The whole country has just went right down the shitter in the last 10 years, and it just keep getting worse.