Bruno Giussani is a writer, the European Director of the 
At LIFT06 two speakers from Amnesty International are showing examples of mashups for activism. They talk among other things of Pledgebank and 10x10.
10x10 collects every hour from news sources the 100 words and pictures that best define a snapshot of the world at that very moment, and displays it in a 100-frames postcard format, and archives them, creating over time a trail of "wars and crises, triumphs and tragedies, mistakes and milestones". At Pledgebank you can pledge to do something "only if X other people help me to do it" - a very simple principle for a very powerful self-organizing tool.
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