Digital Technology and Culture

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MySpace and Sudan

A recent article on CNN.com reports that MySpace is organizing 20 concerts aimed at raising money for Sudan. You can read the article here:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/10/09/myspace.sudan.ap/index.html

Those of you who are taking or have taken Digital Diversity may recognize the idea that we can harness computers and energize those who have mastered them for the purpose of bettering society, socially and politically.

I find this news an interesting juxtaposition to what I read yesterday about YouTube (the news is still resonating in the media today): It is selling to Google for $1.6K.

Perhaps the former owners of YouTube will be inspired by the work of MySpace––and the Gates Foundation and other successful companies––to put some of that hard-earned money to the common good.

posted by: grigar at 14:09 | link | comments |

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