Re: Twitter and Iran Elections

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> wrote:

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> Le 16 juin 2009 à 14:46, Harry Halpin a écrit :
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>> I'm sure everyone has now heard about the roll Twitter is playing in
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> s/Twitter/$coolAppOfTheMoment/
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>  the current protests in Iran (apparently 15,000 tweets an hour, which
>> I'm trying to follow rather unsuccessfully).
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> Twitter is irrelevant. It was just the tool of the moment: It could have
> been smoke signs, drums, whistling, sms, etc. oh Wait It might have been
> those too ;) but the media found a new puppet to push on the front line.
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:) this is always the case, remember in 2006 the between israle an lebnon,
blogging was another name of twitter, but i guess the new message is an
invitation to block every social networking website

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>  Yet, would it not be better to have a
>> technical solution rather than rely on the U.S. govt. asking Twitter
>> not to postpone their maintenance?
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> How to instrumentalize and give a colour to a news. Marketing. Let's not
> fall in the trap.

news always need dramatical effect, but i do think a technical solution
sounds really interesting

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>  So, to sketch a use case - how can investment in such an open stack
>> help people not have their social web services so easily shut down,
>> either inadvertently (such as when a server crashes) or on purpose
>> (such as a government using the domain name system or legal threats to
>> shut down a single social networking or blogging site)?
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> This is the important part of it but that's not news. :)
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> Check the "Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress & Tor" guide among others.
> http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/guide/
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> Le 16 juin 2009 à 14:57, Alex Korth a écrit :
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>> Opera Unite [2], i.e. hosted by the users themselves. Opera Unite based
>> Microblogging, hey that's cool! ;)
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> You just have to block unite.opera.com domain for shutting down
> everything. Not really distributed.
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> Le 16 juin 2009 à 15:08, Dan Brickley a écrit :
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>> The big different today seems to be APIs.
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> Orthogonality of access (web browser, search engines, proxy) and
> interactions (web services). Indeed the API helps to design a better
> flexibility.
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>  I'm told the concept of "re-tweet" (well, re-dent) will be in a future
>> identica/laconica release. This should make it easier to programmatically
>> retrace the sourcing of microblog'd comment...
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> which can be an issue, because identi.ca is centralized for now.
> My wish is that laconi.ca would be easily installable on each machine and
> could communicate with each other (maybe through dynamic dns) with caching
> messages for later.
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> Karl Dubost
> Montréal, QC, Canada
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