Tag Archives: internet effect

Barack Obama on Social Networks

The Ubiquity of Tribes & The Widgets That Track Them

It’s clear the Internet is changing our world as we know it and we’re starting to see a significant shift in the balance of influence. American politics is slowly starting to wake up to this reality and only time will tell where we go from here. But being submersed in the drama of American politics makes it really easy to forget about what’s going on elsewhere. This month’s issue of Wired changes that with a story on what social media’s doing to slowly crack the tightly controlled structure of authority …
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[Textless Tuesday] Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind

His article on the over-hyped Internet is also a good read.

Can free networks save the world?

We stand at a time in history unlike any other. Technological advances have made the spread of information nearly instantaneous. Pictures, words, audio and video fly around the globe on a network made of wires and radio waves. A little known Republican presidential candidate with views radically different from the established elite took up to twenty percent of primary votes in some states. He broke fundraising records and built an unparalleled grass roots network using only the internet. The ongoing war in Iraq provides another example of the ways our …
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