This clip is almost 16 minutes long, so if you've got the time you should check it out. This is found on TED.com. The site's tag line is "Ideas Worth Spreading" and it's completely true. In short, "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." This is what gets me stoked about the career I'm headed into. The consumer becomes the producer. This is how I get my "jollies" these days, what a nerd huh?
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