Yes, we can!

First things first, this is not a post about Obama. It is actually the answer for a question that popped up during a discussion in my MYP4 group last week. We were debating the communication revolution and we easily got to that consensus of being the internet one of the most powerful tools ever invented. Nevertheless, if ‘with great power comes great responsibility’, to what degree is this power offered to us, common users? Can we really use the internet to engender changes?

Yes! We Can! Going straight to the point, João Pessoa movie fans can now count on the privilege of deciding what they are going to see in the big screen. There’s this website in which you can create mobilizations to promote and demand pictures to be shown in our movie theatres—as long as you have enough people asking for that same picture, of course. For those who love alternative cinema; for those who can’t stand 5 rooms occupied by the same movie; for those who would like to try something different; for those who are just looking for a new place to create another profile = try MovieMobz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbTkdqYivuw
The German movie The wave (Die Welle, Germany, 2008), taken to our movie theatres by MovieMobz.

Our online lives

On my way to create the MeetUP SpeakUP blog I realized the huge amount of logins, passwords and profiles I have created so far. Considering that the Internet is yet on its way to adulthood (it is only 18 years old) it seems rather obvious that sooner or later some corporation would do the job of gathering everything to be controlled by a single account and free our tired minds from memorizing hundreds of digits. And so they did. *Thank you, Google.* Still there are plenty of possibilities to occupy, help or spoil one's life. And more arise almost every day. Thinking of that, I was wondering how do people keep their online lives updated? Do you like to look for new gadgets or you just wait for something to become noticeable to join in? Which of these webpages do you already know or have an account in already?

Orkut, Skoob, Youtube, Wikispaces, Flickr, Wikitree, IGoogle, Blogspot, Wordpress, Skype, Messenger, Launchcast, MYSpace, Twitter, LastFM, Facebook, Allmusic, Allmovie, IMDB, Habbo...

These are only a few I've quickly collected. Do you know more? Share it, it may be helpful, but mind!, let's not get someone a new addiction. =P

Greetings meetupspeakers =D

Hello folks, welcome to our MeetUP SpeakUP space in the blogsphere.