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. Shirky, a prescient voice on the Internet’s effects, argues that emerging technologies enabling loose collaboration will change the way our society works.

In this Ted Talk which took place at took place at the U.S. Department of State, Clay Shirky tells the effects of Social Media on our livings.
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Internet is developing quickly and changing the ways we live.  There are simple things you can do to save the Earth and money with the help of Internet. You can turn the power of Internet to cool global warming. Read More

Celebrated yearly on 5 June, World Environment Day (WED) is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. WED was firstly established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.The theme for 2009 is climate change and the broader consequences of environmental change, and what societies can do in response.

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Google’s new service, Google Wave is generating so much buzz and everyone really wants to learn more about Google Wave. Thousands of articles and blog post are written in one day about Google’s new service. To help you save time, we’ve compiled a list of top ten links that describe Google Wave best. Read More

This is an old but unmissable funny poem, “If i controlled the Internet” from storyteller, writer and slam poet Rives; which he read at Ted conference in 2006. In this poem, Rives told he wanted to see a more personal and more  Internet and 3 years later the Internet has become much more personal, much more about me.

What would you do, if you controlled the Internet?

* You can find the whole text of the poem below the video.

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