Daily Diigo Links 03/12/2009

• Revolution, Facebook-Style – Can Social Networking Turn Young Egyptians Into a Force for Democratic Change? – NYTimes.com

  Great article regarding how social networking can be used to organize revolutions and news transfer in areas where it is difficult to meet in person.

  tags: facebookstyle, facebook, socialnetworking, socialstudies, seminar, currentevents

• Situation Called Dire in West Iraq – washingtonpost.com

  here is the article that Davis mentions.

  tags: washingtonpost, anbar, ricks, socialstudies, njch

• United States Institute of Peace: Committed to the Prevention, Management, and Peaceful Resolution of International Conflicts

  tags: peace, peaceful, prevention, thinktank, socialstudies, jones

• Crisis of Credit Explained in Animated Infographics | FlowingData

  Outstanding walk-through of the credit crisis.

  tags: flowingdata, credit, money, bailout, economy

• FlowingData | Data Visualization and Statistics

  OK. Greatest site ever.

  tags: visualization, statistics, data, infographics

• Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America

  The growth of WalMart done in some neat flash.

  tags: walmart, visualization, maps, map

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