links of the week: 6/29-7/4
what happens to the web when a celebrity dies?
interview with twitter operations engineer John Adams
why doesn’t google close it’s html tags?
Danah Boyd: ‘white flight’ from myspace to facebook
ALICE & Jabberwacky walk into a bar…
Social Media as a force of good…now we’re getting somewhere!
6/25/09 UPDATE II: a brief history of technology & communications development within the Islamic Republic of Iran provides context to the “revolution”: http://www.meforum.org/2169/iran-technology-revolution
6/25/09 UPDATE: “Twitter creator shocked and saddened to learn that Twitter can be useful…”
Iranians using Twitter as means of circumventing Media/ISP control mechanisms.
No doubt there are interests against social media – both at home and abroad; authority is the antithesis of social media (read: decentralized interconnectedness). It’s times like this that I’m reminded of a powerful quote from one of my favorite books – The Cluetrain Manifesto:
And when the thrill of hearing ourselves speak again wears off, we will begin to build a new world. -David Weinberger
