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Age’s Angels

Just imagine some cheesy theme music for a sec…..

“Hello Angels….. Your mission today is to freeze in Fed square, dockland, southbank, flinders steps with stop the traffik flyers - people should not be bought and sold. Age”

You may have notice a new widget on the side bar. “Age’s Angels”

It connects you to a site call twitter that bounces messages to web spaces and mobile phones from people - in this case me.

Rus was talking to me about twitter and the case below of an activist being able to alert his friends and lawyer when he was arrested in Egypt. The conversation flowed into doing flash mobbing styled protest ‘properly’ with large numbers like the “stop the traffik” one I led a couple of weeks back. Then the chat flowed to keeping morepraxis friends up to date with what actions and events etc are going on and this led to wondering about playing crowd games during NCYC09. So this was enough of a strange mix and fun conversation to convince me to give it a try. This is where you can sign up http://twitter.com/agegreenwood

My current concerns are around not wanting to spam peoples phones with amazing update insights into my life such as ‘drinking a coffee’, ‘playing with my kids’ etc. It is all a bit more ‘me’ focused than I really like so I am interested in other thoughts about how we could use this tool. Others experiences of it?

You will see on the side bar what I am currently thinking about posting - opportunities, updates and actions - plus a bit of fun in a large crowd or two. (Tap the arrow down to see past texts)

During large actions and weeks like NCYC when I may have fun with say 150-200 angels in the 2000 strong crowd I will pre warn other angels to turn off their phone updates. It is good to see that twitter allows you to choose when and if you receive messages to your phone or not.

So I am just starting to find out about what we can do with this. Feel free to influence me

Age

(CNN) – James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone.

Buck, a graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley, was in Mahalla, Egypt, covering an anti-government protest when he and his translator, Mohammed Maree, were arrested April 10.

On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter.

The message only had one word. “Arrested.”

Within seconds, colleagues in the United States and his blogger-friends in Egypt — the same ones who had taught him the tool only a week earlier — were alerted that he was being held. continue reading here