Given yesterday, we were talking about how the Internet ought to be a human right, how lately twitter has been buzzing with Iranian elections and how Filipinos have been using Facebook and Twitter to get our point of view across, this tedtalk by Clay Shirky asks a very important question: “How can we best make use of this media, even though it means changing the way we’ve always done it?”
my thanks to @mlq3 on twitter for sending this link.
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The Blogosphere, internet, twitter, etc…are new inventions of
Media equipment that broaden the Freedom of the Press and
Opinion. The are countries ruled by Dictators. They keep their
people disconnected from the rest of the world to stay in power.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is an example.
have you seen that National Geographic episode, Inside North Korea?
I know and fully understand the complex geopolitical and international politics involved with North Korea, but when you look at those kids suffering in North Korea, part of me wishes there was an allied invasion of North Korea. You know, just to give those kids a fighting chance at being human.
I guess the issue is the same for Darfur. Those kids are cannon fodder on the altar of “relative peace”.
I wonder why Iran government finds it hard to block these reformists. Any ideas? I’m thinking the CIA has something to do with keeping the Internet lines open for many Iranians. Government has been attempting to block Iranian access to Twitter and failing.
Well… the Iranians are using age old techniques that have existed on the internet for years. they’re using the same techniques the chinese use whenever they want to get out of the great firewall.
And there are many ways to get online. Orbiting satellites being but one vector.
To borrow these romanticized words from Hacker Manifesto: “You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.” The thing is, ordinary people are doing it.
GMA will learn from what’s happening in Iran right now,which means we can’t do what they’re doing there now.
That’s part of the Internet’s design – redunancy and alternate routing algorithms.
From: http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml
The DARPA NET specs required a network that can survive beyond nuclear attacks.
1962
RAND Paul Baran, of the RAND Corporation (a government agency), was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force to do a study on how it could maintain its command and control over its missiles and bombers, after a nuclear attack. This was to be a military research network that could survive a nuclear strike, decentralized so that if any locations (cities) in the U.S. were attacked, the military could still have control of nuclear arms for a counter-attack.
Baran’s finished document described several ways to accomplish this. His final proposal was a packet switched network.
“Packet switching is the breaking down of data into datagrams or packets that are labeled to indicate the origin and the destination of the information and the forwarding of these packets from one computer to another computer until the information arrives at its final destination computer. This was crucial to the realization of a computer network. If packets are lost at any given point, the message can be resent by the originator.”
But office ITs don’t find it hard to block sites, and some websites can block country IPs altogether. Still, Iranian government could simply cut it from the backbone.
CIA probably has roving WiMAX stations around Iran.
The lecture is worth listening to.
Sadly, twitting 1109 did not make a dent.
Not in a nation dominated by twits and twats
*twits = NITWITS
Situate your point that they clearly make sense.
Or I guess caffeine is listening.
NITWITS can’t make a sense of anything.
Even if the headlines are blazing with the results of the book blockade, The letters will fly over the heads of NITWITS.
Spare what’s left of their neurons (if there’s any).
Is the lecture for nitwits or twits or twats?
Or, do you insist that something came out of twitting 1109? If so, what?
And lest you forgot, even the book blockade by MLQIII’s own historical chronicling, is not one largely from blogging, or is it? There was not a hard claim made precisely because, it is not governing.
Boy, you start to make sense and you get better understood. Most of your one liners are actually nitwits, twits, twats. Next time around, I think I don’t have to respond to rather moronic comments from you.
As know for whom the bell tolls
It tolls for YOU :lol:
something came out of it – that can be expressed as:
XYZ number of people being made aware of the HR 1109
previously unaware are now aware.
Next time around, I think I don’t have to respond to moronic comments from you.
Maybe, the other way around if you try to browse the never ending twits and twats authored by a person of some evil mind.
Imagine tell the world to kill – Primer Pagunuran – just because she does not want me to do parallel blogging?
As she claims she was present in Congress, I don’t know how good indeed she made real sense with her twitting. The whole stream of twits and twats were bias-laden from her own point of view and it seems there really was a kind of frentic migration into that point of view.