Hi everyone,
Given all the discussions surrounding educational blogs that have been
blocked capriciously by Internet filters, I started thinked about what
it would take to create the online equivalent of a "samizdat" network,
similar to the system used by Soviet dissidents to disseminate banned
documents. It's simple enough to take the content of a banned blog and
recreate it elsewhere using RSS aggregators, but what if that new site
gets banned as well? So, I came up with a fairly simple strategy to
announce new URLs to large groups of people using SMS text messaging.
Essentially, I'm combining the functionality of Google Groups and the
SMS relay system Teleflip.com, so people can subscribe to a mailing list
and receive brief messages via SMS rather than email. While the idea was
borne out of educational censorship, there's no reason why the same
technique couldn't be used to relay message during other situations,
such as public emergencies, protests and the like.
For more info, please check out my blog:
http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/04/creating_a_samizdat.html
This particular method will only work in North America, but other SMS
relays similar to Teleflip.com would theoretically work elsewhere.
thanks,
andy
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Andy Carvin
acarvin (at) edc . org
andycarvin (at) yahoo . com
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://www.andycarvin.com
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