Following the previous post, here is an interesting explanation of why the Iranian government — which has attempted to block eveything from BBC Persia to text messaging — can’t keep the twitter out. Jeff Jarvis from the Buzz Machine explains a little about the architecture of twi[...]
Archive for June, 2009
June 18th, 2009 - 8:49 pm § in Featured
Anyone sceptical about Twitter – please go for #Iranelection
So then it came to us – a large scale social upheveal evolving with twitter as an al important medium of exchange and repporting. Yesterday we looked a little into blogs and youtube – today we continue with a note on twitter. The Iranian post-election rupture is my debut on twitter [...]
June 17th, 2009 - 9:23 pm § in Featured
Iran – the revolution will not be televised; but blogged!
Having friends with Iranian background and met people still living there, struggling and striving for change – the latest events in the aftermath of the elections are thrilling to say the least. No upheavel of such proportions have been seen since the revolution in 1979. In the context of this[...]
June 14th, 2009 - 9:58 pm § in Link of the day
Online Politics 101
Via Josh Levy – behind change.org among other interesting projects, and coming up skype-lecturer at Communicator for Social Change that I’m wrapping up these weeks – I was introduced to epolitics.com and the guide Online Politics 101 (pdf). It’s a nice introductory read for a[...]
June 10th, 2009 - 8:48 pm § in Link of the day
WorldWideVideo
While I’m not to convinced on the examples proposed by Max Gladwll on how social media might produce social change he gave me a chance to see a rather thrilling example of how strong webvideo can be, when kept as simple as in this one, by now seen by more than 21 millions viewers worldwide: [y[...]
June 10th, 2009 - 11:52 am § in Featured
Turn the cameras on!
When the media yesterday carried the story that the Peruvian police reportedly murdered 40 indigenous Awajun activists in the Amazon, opening fire on their peaceful demonstration and dumping the bodies in a nearby river, the news stories all used the words “reportedly” and “accord[...]
June 4th, 2009 - 9:38 am § in Uncategorized
Another story on the cell in Africa – the way to better rural health care?
How will future development of health care in the global south come about in the future? A good guess is that brain drain of doctors migrating from Africa to Europe and USA will continue and that rural clinics will see few local doctors in the near future. In Malawi a new tech project FrontlineSMS M[...]
June 3rd, 2009 - 1:22 pm § in Uncategorized
Free … if you have money
If you thought that the internet would be free of the country borders of the “real” world, think again. There are now signs that the immigration authorities between the rich and the poor countries are being established in cybersspace, not by governments but by internet companies themselv[...]
