Fall 2009 Communciations Network Conference Speaker, Clay Shirky, on How Social Media Can Make History

In a recent TED Talk Clay Shirky -- one of the keynote speakers at the Fall 2009 Communications Network Conference in NYC, October 14-16 -- 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.