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Video: Evolution of the “Social Media Revolution” (2006)

May 16, 2016
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Video: How Eric Whitacre conducted his virtual choir of 2,000 voices

April 2, 2011
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With an emergent technology, something happens that you’d never imagined. Here, YouTube and Hulu, via WordPress, Facebook, and Twitter — and built upon the Internet — bring something new and wonderful to life.

 

In a moving, madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and unveils the first 2 minutes of his new work, “Sleep.”

Video: Derek Sivers – How to Start a Movement (2011)

October 12, 2010
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With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)

“Leadership is overglorified…. It was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader. So, as we’re all told that we should be leaders, that would be really ineffective. If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And, when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.”

Alexis Madrigal on “weak ties” and activism

September 28, 2010
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“I’ve been watching some people’s minds work on [Facebook] for years. Every day I see their faces in my feed. To label these weak ties is just inaccurate. And it makes me wonder, can’t we know people through their writing? Is face-to-face contact the only way to build strong ties?

“University of Maryland-Baltimore sociologist Zeynep Tufecki also points out that, as in my case, lots of weak ties beget some strong ties.

“The relationship between weak and strong ties is one of complementarity and support, not one of opposition. Gladwell has written about weak and strong ties before and continues a tradition of contrasting them as ontological opposites, somehow opposing and displacing each other,” Tufecki writes on her blog Technosociology. “That is a widespread conceptual error and rests upon an inadequate understanding of these concepts. Large pools of weaker ties are crucial to being able to build robust networks of stronger ties — and Internet use is a key to this process.”

If Facebook existed years ago

September 20, 2010
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“Ben Franklin: Signed up the declaration of independence today. Booyah, England | 234 years ago

  • France likes this
  • England:  You done fucked up now.
  • John Adams: Bring it.
  • Ben Franklin: You redcoats don’t stand a chance.
  • Thomas Jefferson: Redcoats? More like DICKcoats. Amiright?
  • John Hancock: Does this mean we get to sign more shit? Cuz that was fun
  • From Rukmal Rocky Fernando (source no longer available)