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TED Blog: Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran
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I'm always a little reticent to draw lessons from things still unfolding, but it seems pretty clear that ... this is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by social media.
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It's complex. The Ahmadinejad supporters are going to use the fact of English-speaking and American participation to try to damn the dissidents. But whatever happens from here, the dissidents have seen that large numbers of American people, supposedly part of "the great Satan," are actually supporters. Someone tweeted from Tehran today that "the American media may not care, but the American people do." That's a sea-change.
Doors of Perception weblog: In transition
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The Transition WIKI opens with the statement, "Here's how it all appears to be evolving...". That statement helps explain why the movement is growing so fast: The founders don't know what each group is doing, and they don't need to. The whole thing has been designed to be emergent and scalable.
Bobbie Johnson meets Douglas Rushkoff, who helped to shape the internet in the early 90s | Books | The Guardian
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he minted the concept of viral marketing, where the internet is infected with contagious advertising
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Along the way he also coined the now-popular idea of "digital natives" - youngsters who gained a distinct advantage over their parents because they had grown up in a world of computers and electronics.
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Global Voices Online » India: The Advent of Citizen-Driven Election Monitoring
interesting piece on ushaidi and how the ushaidi model is being developed in a different context - India - by Vote Report India...
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That is where Ushahidi makes a difference. Ushahidi ('witness' in Swahili) is an tool that was used to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. It provided a mechanism for the local observers to submit reports using their mobile phones or the internet. The information was filtered by local activist volunteers and an archive of the events were kept in an website using geographical mashup which is accessible to readers. Its success led to its replication as a tool for crisis reporting in some other places of the world.
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The good news is that the Ushahidi model has been introduced in India too. Vote Report India, a collaborative citizen-powered election monitoring platform based on the Ushahidi engine, will monitor the parliamentary elections in India, which is starting in a few weeks from now.
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Social Citizens Blog | Immerse. Converse. Disperse.
But the construct of Social Citizens has also changed throughout the year. One issue in particular that we wrestled with throughout the year was whether Social Citizens are by definition Millennials (ages 15-29). And I think that the answer is, naturally,
Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom | Video on TED.com
nice presentation - we need more than rules and incentives we need context, thought and moral work
The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond | www.verticalfarm.com
The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales -An Empirical Analysis
In this paper, we analyze whether file sharing has reduced the legal sales of music. While this question is receiving considerable attention in academia, industry and in Congress, we are the first to study the phenomenon employing data on actual downloads
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