At TEDBlog, an interview with NYU professor Clay Shirky:
"...it seems pretty clear that ... this is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by social media. I've been thinking a lot about the Chicago demonstrations of 1968 where they chanted "the whole world is watching." Really, that wasn't true then. But this time it's true ... and people throughout the world are not only listening but responding. They're engaging with individual participants, they're passing on their messages to their friends, and they're even providing detailed instructions to enable web proxies allowing Internet access that the authorities can't immediately censor. That kind of participation is reallly extraordinary."
And just weeks ago some were thinking that Twitter was just a fad.
Update: More from Yahoo News. Who knew we'd ever be quoting something called "Yahoo News" ahead of, say CBS. Or even CNN for that matter. And even Yahoo News is behind Twitter and YouTube on this story.
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