It was interesting taking a look at the annotated resources list and it really just shows the vast amount of information that the internet makes available. Seemingly any piece of data or statistic that one could ever need is available somewhere. And the accessibility of this information is the best part. Most of this information was only available to a select few in the government or with the influence to access it. The United States government has done a great job opening all of this up for the general public and the transperancy it creates is liberating.
Although not entirely applicable to this class inparticular when I saw this video it truly led me to buy in to the power of Web 2.0. Watch if you haven't had a chance to see Kony 2012:
The way information is created and distributed truly is undergoing a fundamental change with the world wide web and I cannot think of a better example than this.
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