Twitter. Tom Watson: The Revolution Will Not Be Twittered. "Mock not," pleaded blogger Andrew Sullivan as he posted an instaclassic of hyperbole, "The Revolution Will Be Twittered" in praise of Iranian supporters of Mir Hussein Moussavi who took the streets and - in some cases - used the short-form blogging services to post about the scene in Tehran.
Mock on, says I. There is something like digital catnip on the breakfast bar for western politicogeeks in the story of Iran's disputed election and the ensuing power struggle roiling the Middle East's largest theocracy. Anything that suggests that some of the tools and tricks adopted among the wired, iPhone-wielding politically active classes in the United States may be used to - dramatic pause - start a revolution in one of the world's most dangerous countries carries the potency of a synthetic narcotic injected into the great XML vein of the Internet.
The Political Power of Social Media. On January 17, 2001, during the impeachment trial of Philippine President Joseph Estrada, loyalists in the Philippine Congress voted to set aside key evidence against him.
Less than two hours after the decision was announced, thousands of Filipinos, angry that their corrupt president might be let off the hook, converged on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, a major crossroads in Manila. The protest was arranged, in part, by forwarded text messages reading, "Go 2 EDSA. Modern politics and the Facebook paradox. *COP15 BLOG* Days 1-3: Carbon Central. Woman Sued for $50,000 Over a Tweet. How much damage can a Tweet do?
According to property management company Horizon Realty, $50,000 worth. That's the size of the lawsuit waged against one of its former tenants on Monday, in response to a Tweet about one of their Chicago apartments. Amanda Bonnen was staying an apartment at 4242 N. Sheridan, one of over 1,500 apartments owned by the company. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Bonnen's Tweet on May 12 read, in part:
Michael Anti: enjoy Twitter in China while it lasts. Michael Anti Michael Anti (安替), is a well-known Chinese blogger who used to work for the New York Times as a researcher and made headlines when his Windows Live blog was deleted by Microsoft for its content.
Anti has been awarded fellowships at Harvard and Cambridge, and as the Niemen Fellow at Harvard 07－08, he quite notedly said that it was not difficult for information to be stopped in China, because once a service like Twitter is stopped, then the most popular ways for information dissemination will end for a while. Ethan Zuckerman, the co-founder of Global Voices Online, had this to say about Anti in 2007: He mentions that there are lots of projects trying to monitor China by following internet news - Global Voices, China Media Project, new projects at Hong Kong University. In 2004 and 2005, it made sense to follow blogs to find this “sharp news”.
Innovation: How social networking might change the world - tech - 27 February 2009. Innovation is our new column that highlights the latest emerging technological ideas and where they may lead Can social networks change the world?
Yes, they can, in the words of Barack Obama's election campaign. That campaign itself provided evidence that the tools of "Web 2.0" - the community-driven web - can really make a difference, delegates at the Terra future conference in London heard this week. The size of social networks. Personality is Key to Social Media. By Brian Carter, Fuel Interactive As director of an advertising agency that manages social media campaigns, I was recently brainstorming recipes for social media success.
Every formula I came up with included personality. Quick Sharing - Get the Button. Add CopyNShare to your ShareThis Widget.
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While we can easily identify our friends and acquaintances within a network, it’s much harder for us to comprehend how members in a social network are connected and how those connections influence a particular network. Fortunately, there are now a number of people that have taken the time to create stunning visualizations of various social networks that give us a better understanding of how networks function. We take a look at our ten favourite visualizations of social networks. Fidg’t’ : Visualize The Fidg’t Visualizer allows you to play around with your network. ICCARUS: scouta.com Click here to watch the video.