Links do Dia: 03.07.08

• Here Comes Everybody – Conversation Agent

The lessons on the power of technology for social communication and sharing are valid for businesses, too. The same mechanisms that make something worth talking about go viral, can create a problem of massive proportions for a company if the opinion is of the negative kind.

• Wikiterrorism – The Great Seduction

Did you know that we can fight terror with YouTube? Yes, we can, quite literally it would appear — at least, according to Daniel Kimmage, who the International Herald Tribune identities as a “a senior analyst at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty”. In today’s op-ed section of the IHT, this senior analyst presents a most peculiar argument about Al Qaeda which, he says, is very much of a Web 1.0 type of organization. In spite of its “advanced” media skills, Kimmage explains, the terror group has a control-from-above type of structure