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Age of laptop activism
CNN-IBN
Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 01:31
Time magazine's person of the year is you. And you is everybody who is
on the net. Society is seeing a great power shift as people are
transforming the Internet from a resource to a living and pulsating
lifeline.
And the Internet is simply reflecting our lives, the good and the
ugly, from the mundane to the special, which the Web is transforming
into a living and breathing social organism. The web today wants to
tap into you to make your voice count like never before.
The web is not only highlighting social issues it is also chronicling
every last detail of an individual's life. Blogs haven't just come of
age, they have taken on a life of their own.
But they aren't the only weapons online activists have in their
arsenal. Online petitions like those found on petitiononline.com are
another method activists employ to keep their causes alive.
