Actually - I were going to write a quite lengthily blog about music, mobile and apps - a work still in progress - but due to the last couple of days of chaos in Iran - I will write a short praise of Twitter.
Many people I meet in my day to day existents as a digital frontline consumer, a geek and a person, continually question the legitimacy of twitter. That must be clarified right now - via the one to many or the one to a channel communication, the Iranian people have a vital way of communicating to the outside world, when the dictatorial
priest in Teheran have shut down all basic means of communication, even texting on the phone have been stopped. In the past week I have continually been following numerous channels and single people in and about Iran – this has actually touched be quite deeply. One thing is the distance you will get to any conflict in the world by distant proximity effect of TV (a news anchor that tells you what is happening in a monotonous voice, sedating us as media consumers – we are as far away from the action as we possibly could be) another thing is “listening” real time to real people in real peril, right now – this is on one hand quite inspiring to act in favor of these poor people, on the other hand frightening – I have seen quite gory stuff - captured on mobile phones, pictures and movies, real people really dying, fighting for their basic right to vote – to let their voice be heard – you would have to be made of stone not to let these things touch you. And this is where twitter really has proven its worth. I have heard hands on what is going on.
This is actually a movement “backwards” in the sense that it is the one to many communications and the almost chatroomish communication we are experiencing with twitter.. but it works. And that is the essence of it. I will elaborate on the implications of this kind of communication later on – and the importance of syndication of information.
If you still are doubting go se here
https://twitter.com/#IranElection
