Dear Friends
In case you missed our Twitter MicroBlogs here are the highlights:
. Twitter, FaceBook and YouTube: Has 21st century Social Media ripped the veil off 'the other'... and we see ourselves each time we look?
. Has Tehran's Tiananmen Square already happened on Twitter? Have protests in 5th Dimension galvanised critical mass in the 4D world of space and time?
. Low probability high impact asymmetric eruption on Iran's Streets has been met with asymmetric evolution of new media to cover it.
. Iran Elections: A Twitter Revolution? US State Dept asked Twitter to delay scheduled maintenance earlier this week.
. Thanks to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube newspapers worldwide are receiving latest pictures and videos of atrocities committed in Iran post #IranElection.
. In 1979 Tehran Streets filled with people following a leader; 2009 streets are filled with people following each other as ONE via new media!
. New media's enabling the fracture of Space-Time which has divided world's people via culture, distance and time zone boundaries.
. Rise of collective consciousness? Accumulated suspicion, fear and alienation from 30 years of Iran-West hostility is going down as the human cry goes up!
. It's impossible not to feel connected to Social Media users risking life and limb. Berlin Wall went down in 1989 and Mental Walls are coming down in 2009!
. Just read #IranElection messages on Twitter, Facebook and watch YouTube videos. They are like a million SOS messages to the world and the world's responding!
. Overarching feeling in #IranElection Social Media messages despite misspelling and punctuation errors etc is the immediacy and the potency!
. New Media Rules: One Person = One Broadcaster. Twitter, FaceBook and YouTube are shifting balance forever. Dying news-media failing to catch up?!!
. Neda or Call: In Iran, a few deaths may have many asymmetric consequences as revolution runs through a full cycle on social media over and over again.
. Whatever the outcome #IranElection has proved that Twitter, FaceBook and YouTube are as significant and paradigm shifting as Telephone, Radio, Television, Personal Computer and World Wide Web were!
. What has happened in Iran could happen anywhere. The power is shifting asymmetrically to the people via new media technologies.
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