The insights of Clay Shirky are always worth reading, watching, or listening to. He’s as knowing as he is prolific. This video via TED says it all. Welcome to the revolution – you’re right in the middle of it.

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

Shirky, a prescient voice on the Internet’s effects, argues that emerging technologies enabling loose collaboration will change the way our society works.

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http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html?awesm=on.ted.com_y&utm_campaign=ted&utm_content=site-basic&utm_medium=on.ted.com-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com