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Video: Evolution of the “Social Media Revolution”

Here’s my edit of the original Did You Know? 2 video from 2006.

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…

Video: Derek Sivers – How to Start a Movement

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…

Alexis Madrigal on “weak ties” and activism

“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…

If Facebook existed years ago

“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…

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