The government has tried all manner of methods to mute what has become known as “resistance music.” It has blocked Web sites used to download songs and shut down social networking sites, which the opposition also used to organize protests and distribute videos of government and paramilitary violence.
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Music Stirs the Embers of Protest in Iran - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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lamping down on music in the digital age is like squeezing a wet sponge. Protest songs are downloaded on the Internet, sold in the black market or shared via Bluetooth, a wireless technology that Iranians have adapted to share files on cellphones, bypassing the Internet altogether. Fans have also made dozens of homemade videos, setting montages of protest images to music and posting them online.
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“Music has become a tool for resisting the regime,” said Abbas Milani, the director of Iranian studies at Stanford University. “Music has never been as extensive and diverse as it is today.”
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Why Is Change So Hard for Some People (Especially Older Ones?) | Collaboration 2.0 | ZD... - 0 views
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young people really are more open and older ones more set in their ways, according to a fascinating article in the Scientific American.
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To bring this back to the Scientific American magazine’s observations about openness to new experiences tending to decline gradually in some, inclusiveness is a key to successful culture change. The challenge is to motivate people and get them engaged by helping them to participate, and some sizzle to sell the steak often really helps.
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One for Sean...
Are Blogs Losing Their Authority To The Statusphere? - 0 views
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As the social Web and new services continue the migration and permeation into everything we do online, attention is not scalable. Many refer to this dilemma as attention scarcity or continuous partial attention (CPA) - an increasingly thinning state of focus. It’s affecting how and what we consume, when, and more importantly, how we react, participate and share. That something is forever vying for our attention and relentlessly pushing us to do more with less driven by the omnipresent fear of potentially missing what’s next.
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We are learning to publish and react to content in “Twitter time” and I’d argue that many of us are spending less time blogging, commenting directly on blogs, or writing blogs in response to blog sources because of our active participation in micro communities.
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building a community around the statusphere - the state of publishing, reading, responding to, and sharing micro-sized updates.
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YouTube - Diigo presents WebSlides (New Version) - 0 views
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Could be very useful for case study presentations or for collaboration in preparing them.
Howard Rheingold's Vlog - 0 views
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Howard rocks out
BBC News - Nigeria Islamic court 'bans Twitter feed' - 0 views
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"An order is hereby given restraining the respondents either by themselves or their agents from opening a chat forum on Facebook, Twitter, or any blog for the purpose of the debate on the amputation of Malam Buba Bello Jangebe."
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The group told the BBC's Hausa service it would appeal against the ruling. The Sharia code runs alongside the secular state system in 12 of Nigeria's 36 states, and citizens can choose which system they deal with. It is not clear whether the Kaduna court has the authority to enforce the ruling, which analysts say is the first such judgement in Nigeria.
ONI Releases 2009 Middle East & North Africa Research | OpenNet Initiative - 0 views
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While not all countries in the Middle East and North Africa filter the Internet, censorship across the region is on the rise, and the scope and depth of filtering are increasing. Testing has revealed political filtering to be the common denominator across the region; however, social filtering is on the rise.
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Based on ONI testing results, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and the West Bank do not currently filter any material; however, none of those are without regulations.
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Bahrain, Iran, Syria and Tunisia have the strictest political filtering practices in the region.
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Marines ban Twitter, Facebook, other sites - CNN.com - 0 views
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"These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries," reads a Marine Corps order
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The Marines' ban will last a year.
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Price Floyd, the Pentagon's newly-appointed social media czar
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I wonder if this will also apply to forum-based communities. I know many in the armed forces, including USMC, play online games such as Cybernations or WoW - a great deal of the interest is in the social side as much as the gameplay.
Middle East Online - 0 views
Global Voices Online » Iran: Environmentalists Campaign to Save Isfahan - 0 views
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Iranian environmentalists are using online media tools to save different cultural monuments such as The Si-o-se Pol or “33 Pol” (bridge of 33 arches) an architectural masterpiece in the heart of the Iranian historic city of Isfahan (Esfahan). A battle is ongoing between authorities that want to develop a new metro project and concerned citizens from across Iran who fear the damage it might cause.
Meedan | Events - 0 views
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Found this via a tweet from Andy Carvin of NPR
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