Via Charlemagne at the Economist, this small gem: BBC News Online interviewed social networking expert Jonathan Zittrain at Harvard about the use of social media technologies in the Iran protests, and asked him whether this was a seminal moment for social networking. He began his response thus:
“It’s just too early to say but my expertise tells me what is going on is extremely interesting.”
More from Jonathan Zittrain a bit later in the programme…
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