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Misreading Tehran: The Twitter Devolution - Foreign Policy has a fascinating article on the role of Twitter in the Iranian protests.

A number of opposition activists have told me they used text messages, email, and blog posts to publicize protest actions. However, good old-fashioned word of mouth was by far the most influential medium used to shape the postelection opposition activity. There...

Is the economy really this bad? - cbs This screenshot of yesterday's home page of CBS.com pretty much says it all. We're not sure if this is a mistake or what. But really, is this the answer?
Roundup of We Media Miami session: In search of a new kind of story - For those who were unable to join the "Storytellers Caucus" at We Media this year, here's some of what you missed: I started with a brief history of how our traditional ideas of story have proved a remarkable tool for making order out of the chaos of the world and our experiences in it. (PDF) The world is a messy place but a quick look in, say, your local library shows you something else....

Introducing Footnote Pages - It's live. Try it. image

We're launching something at TechCrunch 50 today - image Around 2:15 Pacific Time, CEO Russ Wilding, will be on the TechCrunch 50 stage to launch our latest project. Anyone will be able to kick the tires of this new thing immediately after the talk. Watch live coverage:
Why I hate Flickr - Excerpted from a Flickr email sent to me today... image

CNN: Vets pay tribute to fallen comrades at virtual Vietnam wall - Footnote.com ended up on the home page of CNN this afternoon (then migrated to the Tech section). It was an unexpected surprise, which kept us on our toes. image...

First 48 hours of The Wall - It's been both surprising and humbling to observe how people have interacted with The Wall since it's announcement on Wednesday. After discovering some issues with our clustering providers and optimizing code on the site, we've been able to keep the site humming. It's not easy to quickly serve up a 20GB image - one of the biggest, if not the biggest on the Web - to thousands of people anxious to explore and contribute...

The Wall on CNN - The Situation Room's Abbi Tatton does a great job of summarizing the idea of The Wall. image
Free Vietnam photos from Footnote and The National Archives - As part of the release of The Wall, Chris and Footnote.com are going to be making 1 million Vietnam era photos and documents from The National Archives for free. Here's...

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