S.F. Activists Use Twitter, Pirate Radio to Manage Anti-War Protesters: ‘What’s new in the last four years is the addition of the text messaging,’ says Taylor. ‘In the past, (street protest organizers) have had walkie-talkies out there and a bullhorn, but the people with the radios would always get arrested by the police.’
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Clive Thompson wrote last year about the development of a “social sixth sense” emerging from services like Twitter. I can very much say that this has continued to develop since he first wrote it. CommuterFeed is one of my favourite examples of emerging ways we can use multi-channel services like Twitter even better. [...]
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