By Jessica Reed
The United Nations have been accused of lacking a sense of initiative and strongwill when dealing with the Darfur genocide crisis, but this won't be the case of MySpace, which has decided to organise a campaign to raise awareness and money for humanitarian relief in Sudan. Big names of the indie music scene will participate - amongst them Alice in Chains, Citizen Cope, TV on the Radioand Ziggy Marley. Are social network sites a new effective way to reach out to people and convince them to take action?
The crisis in Darfur is a global concern and as a global community we have a responsibility to take action" (...) MySpace's reach gives us an extraordinary opportunity to spread the word and empower individuals to help address the horrors in Darfur.
MySpace is owned by News Corporation - Rupert Murdoch's company.
In other news, Google officially bought Youtube, which makes it the first social network site worth over one billion dollars. To me it just sounds like bad news, but Tony Pierce says it best in LAist:
When Google bought YouTube yesterday, the sound you heard was every copyright lawyer in Hollywood cracking his fingers, because the beautiful success of YouTube was its wealth of copywritten material (...) LAist predicts that this time next year YouTube will be a pleasant memory and nothing at all like we now know it to be.
Picture via quodlibetor's flickR page.
