Misreading Tehran: The Twitter Devolution - By Golnaz Esfandiari. Before one of the major Iranian protests of the past year, a journalist in Germany showed me a list of three prominent Twitter accounts that were commenting on the events in Tehran and asked me if I knew the identities of the contributors.
I told her I did, but she seemed disappointed when I told her that one of them was in the United States, one was in Turkey, and the third -- who specialized in urging people to "take to the streets" -- was based in Switzerland. Perhaps I shattered her dreams of an Iranian "Twitter Revolution. " The Western media certainly never tired of claiming that Iranians used Twitter to organize and coordinate their protests following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's apparent theft of last June's elections. Even the American government seemed to get in on the act. But it is time to get Twitter's role in the events in Iran right.
Illuminated Atheist: Featured. Apophenia » Blog Archive » ChatRoulette, from my perspective. I’ve been following ChatRoulette for a while now but haven’t been comfortable talking about it publicly.
For one, it’s a hugely controversial site, one that is prompting yet-another moral panic about youth engagement online. And I hate having the role of respondent to public uproar. (I know I know…) More importantly though, I find it difficult to respond to the fears because I find it endearing. ChatRoulette reminds me a lot of the quirkiness of the Internet that I grew up with. 30 Pictures Of Goats Being Crazy. 1001 Fonts.