U.S. State Department Asked Twitter To Reschedule Down Time

Yesterday Twitter announced it would have 90 minutes of down time at 9:45 Pacific time while they did some site maintenance. Thousands of Twitterers begged for the site to be left up, since Twitter has become an important source of communication for Iranians who are trying to get news out to the world and to [...]

Tuesday Morning at The Confluence: What Are You Reading, Hearing, Seeing This Morning?

I slept a bit late this morning myself, but now I’m up and surfing the net in search of the latest news. What are you hearing? I realize I’m not as good at this as MABlue, so please share your own links in the comments, and I will add them while continuing to post mine. [...]

Blaming a Generation

One outrage after another. Obama’s recent defense of DOMA leaves a bad taste in the mouth. I won’t continue, I may start to blub again if I do, and I don’t feel like being smug anyway. Claiming that banning Gay Marriage is good for the federal budget, and then invoking incest and pedophilia does not [...]

Out of Africa: Financial Innovation

We’ve made the world a depressing place. Everywhere you look, all the good stuff is buried under a thick and powerful layer of crud. Sort of like an endless mall parking lot. Seedlings push through it every now and again. You can’t even see them from a distance and if you stepped on them, they’d [...]

A picture says a thousand words

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New Media Covers Iranian Riots in Real Time; U.S. Cable Channels, Not So Much

For the past couple of days, The Confluence has been using Twitter to live-blog the riots in Iran following an election that was most likely rigged (see here, here and here). Several newspapers have taken note of the rise of new media real-time coverage of the Iranian situation and the criticism of cable news outlets [...]

Socially Unacceptable

Remember a couple weeks back when Barack, Michelle and their media entourage flew to New York City one Saturday night for dinner and a show?  Imagine what would have happened if the following week David Letterman did a “Top Ten” list of the worst moments of their trip and said this: “Number 2 – Finding [...]

Zero Tolerance for Birthers

We hoped this would go away after the election but lately it’s been getting worse.  Just so we’re clear: THE CONFLUENCE DOES NOT TOLERATE “BIRTHER” COMMENTS AND/OR DISCUSSIONS! There is absolutely no legal basis to doubt Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President of the United States.  Any comments related to his eligibility, including but not [...]

Twittering the Revolution, Day 2

I just discovered the power of Twitter a couple of weeks ago when we decided to add a Twitter feed to The Confluence front page. Little did I know how addictive it would be! I found I could learn about breaking news stories from reporters on the ground–before the stories were actually published or broadcast. [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

Ahmadinejad’s Landslide Fraud Election: The Aftermath I would like to congratulate my co-bloggers and all the commenters here at The Confluence for a spectacular job on the Iranian election last night. The play by play here was second to none. Iran reformists held after street clashes Up to 100 members of major Iranian reformist groups [...]