Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history
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Interesting talk from TED about the revolution in modern media made even more relevant in light of the current Iran situation.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle — Anais Nin
An artist, designer and photographer raised in Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides, now living & working in the picturesque village of Inverkip on the Clyde coast in Scotland.
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"The revolution will be Twittered"
Latest pictures/video from Iran election riots can be seen on the link above.
Something about the scale and ferocity of the reaction to Ahmadinejad's declared victory suggests things were not as decisive as he'd have people believe. Another Mugabe on our hands?
As the only social network site not blocked (yet) during this crisis inside Iran, Twitter is proving to be the only truly real-time sources of news from Iran as traditional communication channels are being shut down. People are tagging related updates with #IranElection so they can be viewed as they happen. From these posts it's rumoured that the rival presidential candidates have been placed under house arrest, martial law has been declared in some areas, people are on their rooftops in their thousands chanting and police and students are fighting for control of university buildings. As with all 'news' in the Twitterverse we'll need to wait until tomorrow for corroborated journalism to catch up and separate fact from fiction.
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