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public micro-messaging as a medium for change.

ChangeMedium is a charitable initiative dedicated to advancing public micro-messaging as a medium for change.

Introduction

Om Malik April 14th, 2009:

Twitter is just the beginning of this

real-time internet -

the simplest manifestation of this long term trend

- that spells the end of communications

and start of an interaction

society.

As Om Malik observed:Twitter is ... the start of an interaction society.

Already people are talking about it topping Google

"They announced they were going to shut down their system for maintenance, and

we asked them not to," one official said,

adding that the discussions were meant to "highlight to [Twitter] that this was an

important means of communication, not with us but

horizontally in Iran."

And already it is becoming essential public infrastructure.

Weve seen this before

Weve seen this before

Printing Press

Printing press

Telegraph

Telegraph

Telephone

Telephone

Radio

Radio

Internet

Internet

Web

Web

This time is different

This time is different

I no longer understand my own creation

~ Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web

In July 2008 at a Nesta Web Science event Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the web, said...

I no longer understand my own creation

He also implored the audience...

Ask not whether we're asking too much of the web, but whether we're asking too much of us

Indicating that what this is and where its going is about people.

Simple

It starts with being simple.

A text message of not more that 140 characters.

So simple that grandmas can use it.

Accessible

Being sms compatible, it can be used anywhere, anytime from mobile phone