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Joel has a great post on Twitter and Iran, of which this is but a snippet:

I learned how people are fighting to get information out of their country about what is happening. I am seeing live feeds of people posting how to get around government filters to post to Twitter and other sites. I am reading posts listing who to follow that is typing in English for us to get the real news.

I watched as people sent messages to @andersoncooper and other news related media resources. They were pleading for help but more pleading for recognition about what was going on. What is going on, still.

This weekend marked a victory for digital television but it may be the death date of network news. I like how one post on Twitter says it best: “US News Agencies fiddle while Iran burns”. Is anyone watching? Is anyone chatting about it? My Twitter timeline is full of people posting about what they are eating, watching on television, demonstrating at a conference, and my heart is breaking.

I wonder if tomorrow’s news will cover how they failed? Or will this be a quick story before we get the celebrity birthdays and weather

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Twitter…fritter…frittered away. The most meaningful quote at The Daily Dish is this one by Andrew Sullivan:

You cannot stop people any longer. You cannot control them any longer. They can bypass your established media; they can broadcast to one another; they can organize as never before… they will use technology to displace old modes and orders. Maybe this revolt will be crushed. But even if it is, the genie has escaped this Islamist bottle.Maybe that’s what we’re hearing on the rooftops of Tehran: the sound of the next revolution.

So significant, I included it in my upcoming talk.

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