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links for 2007-10-01

• With His Camera Seized, Sciutto Uses Cell Phone To Report From Myanmar [TVNewser]
  "When ABC's senior foreign correspondent Jim Sciutto crossed into Myanmar today from neighboring Thailand the authorities took away his camera. So he filed his report for World News and the webcast, with the next best thing, his cell phone."
  (tags: burma cameraphone mobilephone)
• Is Internet Politics Better Off Than It Was Four Years Ago? by Chuck Tryon [FlowTV, vol. 6, no. 8]
  "while this rapid response may be able to mobilize voters very quickly, I also wonder what gets lost in this form of just-in-time participation, especially as people move on to the latest video after a few days of breathless commentary on the video of the
  (tags: politics usa viral youtube web2.0 participatoryculture)
• Backpacker turns Myanmar activist via Facebook [Reuters]
  "A chance encounter in a Myanmar coffee shop turned teenage backpacker Alex Bookbinder into a political activist ... Bookbinder, 19, is the creator of the "Support the monks protest in Burma" campaign on the Internet social networking phenomenon Facebook"
  (tags: burma facebook socialsoftware socialnetworking activism web2.0 participatoryculture participatorymedia digitalculture)