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The archives are not user-friendly, but this is nonetheless an interesting experiment that would be a model for a great class activity. Basically, what they did was to organize a world-wide re-enactment of the War of the Worlds on Twitter. A central invasion plan was hosted on Google docs to give people a frame of reference for their tweets. You'd have to go back almost a week in the Twitter feed, but if you want, you can view all the tweets in this XML file in the archives (maybe somebody will run it though an XSLT to produce a nice version). Can you imagine entire schools, entire communities, participating in Web 2.0 re-enactments of historical events? Awesome.

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