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Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith publicly resigned from his position at the company last week with a blistering diatribe published as a New York Times Op-Ed piece. The piece quickly went viral as it was posted across the various social networks.
Maria Popova is by far one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter and her blog, Brain Pickings, is a frequently visited website of mine. I was intrigued when I read Popova’s announcement about her latest project, The Curator’s Code, an earnest attempt to standardize how we give credit for content and ideas across the web.
On February 20th, 2012 the charitable organization Invisible Children launched a campaign with the release of a 30-minute Internet video on Vimeo entitled “Kony 2012”. The video was released to gain awareness of the many crimes committed by Joseph Kony, the leader of an international (although the video focuses primarily on Uganda) guerilla group by the name of the Lord’s Resistance Army with hopes that this awareness will result in more American support ultimately leading to his arrest.
Despite the video being the subject of this blog post, my goal is to focus on the viral nature of the video and the Kony 2012 campaign, and not to get into a political discussion about Joseph Kony or the Invisible Children organization.
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