Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government
The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can't governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.
9/11: Mystery white planes over New York City
Unknown white planes in New York City near the World Trade Center on 9/11, before, during and after the second plane attack.
Iqbal Quadir: The power of the mobile phone to end poverty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixjxvzb2-Fw
Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development.
99 Problems (Explicit Political Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2C22wBf2h5k#!
The lyrics for this Political Remix Video are available at http://lyonspotter.blogspot.com, as there is insufficient space to include them here. The remix features Barack Obama rapping a modified version of Jay Z's "99 Problems." Mitt Romney has a few lines in the role of "the police officer." This parable I give unto you: Not a few who meant to cast out their devil went thereby into the swine themselves.
BBC Reported Building 7 Collapse 20 Minutes Before It Fell
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