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Conocimiento_Libre. Open Source World Conference 2008. La Meatrix: España Homepage. The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution. The emergence of Twitter as a heroic enabling technology for the pro-democracy demonstrators in Iran this past week has been a thrilling reminder of the power of distributed communication tools.

The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution

I'm impressed at how useful this simple application has been shown to be, and at the clever hacks the Iran-based commentators have employed to stay online. As so many tech pundits have said, this has been a golden moment for social networking technologies. And, I have to admit, it's scared the hell out of me.