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Crossing Gaps » communication platform http://crossinggaps.com A Digital Storytelling Firm Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:19:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Therein lies the uneasy truth: In a maj… http://crossinggaps.com/updates/therein-lies-the-uneasy-truth-in-a-maj/ http://crossinggaps.com/updates/therein-lies-the-uneasy-truth-in-a-maj/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:13:36 +0000 Quang Tran http://crossinggaps.com/updates/therein-lies-the-uneasy-truth-in-a-maj/

Therein lies the uneasy truth: In a major international crisis, one of the prime channels of communication and news for individuals, media outlets, and governments alike is a 2-year-old start-up in San Francisco with 50 employees, no discernible business model, a history of technical instability, and a misinformation-related lawsuit on the table. This is a problem.”

— Caroline McCarthy, CNET: With Iran crisis, Twitter’s youth is over (via mikehudack)

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While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

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