politics.theatlantic.com - 6/15/2009
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It's too easy to call the weekend's activities the first revolution that was Twittered, but when histories of the Iranian election are written, Twitter will doubtless be cast as a protagonal technology that enabled the powerless to survive a brutal...
gawker.com - 6/15/2009
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"They didn't rig the vote. They didn't even
look at the vote. They just wrote the name
and put the number in front of it." The world don't have all the facts but if what the people believed happened, is happening, it's shocking. Iran wanted to have an Obama moment but the religious clerics ...
The Revolution in Iran: A Recap
othercrap.com - 6/21/2009
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#CNNFail: The revolution is being Tweeted and Facebooked
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... solidarity. In an international gesture of protest, people were encouraged to wear green -- color of candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi's opposition party, which claims to have actually won the election -- on Monday.
UPDATES: Marc Armbinder offers advice on how we should always approach news, whether from newspapers, radio, network television, websites, blogs or Twitter: "Follow The Developments In Iran Like A CIA Analyst."
Armbinder again: "The Revolution Will Be Twittered":
Why hasn't Mousavi been arrested or ...
Phil Bronstein: Twitter Can't Cure Cancer! But the Right Pro-Am Mix is the Future of Journalism
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... battles. See! say the champions of broad digital news collection, you dinosaurs are way too slow and narrow. We're fast and furious and a big fire hose of personal experience. No, no! demurs MSM like CNN. We're evolving. See, we're using Twitter, endlessly on big, fancy new touch screens. We even have whole staffers dedicated to monitoring the stuff. But that's mostly just a lot of pointing, not clicking.
Voracious debates on almost every forum about the strengths vs. drawbacks of Twitter as a valuable news tool, now that we can't really ...
Karthika Muthukumaraswamy: Tweetering on the Edge of Free Speech
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog —
... during unforeseen terror attacks, and setting off civilian revolutions against authoritarian regimes, the world would have had no way of knowing that America's top tennis player took little time to get back to business after his loss to longtime nemesis and World Number One Roger Federer in an epic Wimbledon final earlier this year. ...
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