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Video: How Twitter Can Make History

Posted by Erdem OZKAN on 22 June, 2009

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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 …

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“a day on, not a day off,” “King Day of Service” Gadget from Google

Posted by Erdem OZKAN on 20 January, 2009

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Make it a Day On… Not a Day Off!

During the 1950s and ’60s, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. recognized the power of service to strengthen communities and achieve common goals. Initiated by Congress in 1994, King …

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