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Power Point: Get the word out
June 18, 2009: 11:35 AM ET"You can't keep any of this news down anymore...The process of getting the word out is totally democratized."
-- Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent and a native of Iran, in Thursday's New York Times. As foreign journalists in Iran are forced to leave the country -- Amanpour returned to London after her Iranian visa expired Tuesday -- the world is looking to citizen reporters to capture the unrest in the wake of last week's controversial presidential election. Videos of the violent crackdowns posted on Google's (GOOG) YouTube have been viewed by thousands, while oppostion candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi is using his Facebook page to organize protests. As we mentioned in Wednesday's power point, Twitter is also playing a crucial role in giving protesters a voice, despite the Iranian government's efforts to silence them. --Jessica Shambora
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Power Point: Twitter's purpose discovered
"The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what make it so powerful."
-- Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard law professor and Internet expert, in Tuesday's New York Times. Zittrain explained how the social network was able to evade censorship by the Iranian government because there are so many ways for posts to originate. (There are hundreds of tools that can post to Twitter, like Tweetdeck and Twitpic). "It is MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jun 16, 2009 9:18 PM ETPosted in: activist, Harvard, Iran, Jonathan Zittrain, politics, Postcards, Power Point, Power Shift, Silicon Valley, technology, twitter
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