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17 Jun 09
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.
23 Feb 09
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
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