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2 billion people are using the Internet

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Cost of becoming a speaker lowered

For authoritarian countries it is harder and more expensive to maintain control over public spheres (China, Singapore, Vietnam)

Cost of sending an email, setting up a web page is low

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Bebo, Friendster, Orkut, and hi5 have also strong international presence.

Orkut dominates India and Brazil also because exit costs are high, making it hard for people to migrate. Fotolog dominates Argentina and Chile.

http://tinyurl.com/2xrtpn

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http://tinyurl.com/2f9axa

John Barger(1952, blogger,

Ohio)

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March 2003

Anonymous Iraqi Bloggergains international visibilitywith posts about the war

Salam Pax

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http://tinyurl.com/322lyy

It was significant that in a well-organized effort, 8-30 million people in 800 cities worldwide simultaneously showed their defiance of the war in Iraq on February 15, 2003. The Internet served as organizational tool. March 19 - The first American bombs drop on Baghdad, Iraq. March 20- the invasion starts.

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Bram Cohen (born 1975), SUNY at Buffalo

http://tinyurl.com/yp6egx

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol, first implementation on 2 July 2001.

BitTorrent has 135 million installs and accounts 55% of all Internet traffic (07, Bram Cohen)

http://tinyurl.com/292zfg

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In 2004 the peer-to-peer file sharing client LimeWire was released.

It is still possible to download LimeWire and sharecopyrighted files peer-to-peer.

http://tinyurl.com/3y5o5o

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http://tinyurl.com/2dnhmyMay 10, 2000

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http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1430

as tool for human rights advocacy

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2000

2002. Meetup 2,000,000 users (07)2003: prominence through Howard Dean2005: requires organizers to pay for local groups leading to a drastic drop in local groups

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http://tinyurl.com/yqwdrb

"The primary inspiration was the book Bowling Alone...” Heiferman said (co-founder of Meetup). "We are providing a service that revitalizes the Internet for local communities."

http://tinyurl.com/275bot

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(The site started in 1999 but it was first time archivedon Waybackmachine on May 23, 2003.)

http://tinyurl.com/23t8prhttp://www.rtmark.com/

“RTMark is itself a registered corporation which brings together activists who plan projects with donors who fund them. It thus operates outside the laws governing human individuals, and benefits from the much looser laws governing corporations.”

http://tinyurl.com/youtse

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http://www.appliedautonomy.com/

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http://www.appliedautonomy.com/

http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html

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http://theyrule.net/

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http://360degrees.org/

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http://www.betterworldisland.org/

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http://www.getafirstlife.com/

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http://protest.net/

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March 27, 2006LAStudents organize 15000 people for immigration protest through MySpace and SMS

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http://tinyurl.com/2569dr

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http://tinyurl.com/2dnhmy

http://english.ohmynews.com/

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http://www.gizmag.com/go/3514/

TxtMob is a free, open-source software package that lets users quickly and easily share txt messages with friends, comrades, and total strangers. http://www.txtmob.com/

TxtMob

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http://whodies.com/

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http://www.bushin30seconds.org/

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http://www.torproject.org/

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http://www.adbusters.org/

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"[U]sing a wireless internet enabled bicycle outfitted with a custom-designed printing device, the bikes against bush bicycle can print text messages sent from web users directly onto the streets of manhattan in water-soluble chalk."

Joshua Kinberg, 2004

http://tinyurl.com/33pqs9