As we all know by now, in the aftermath of Iran's June 12 presidential elections, Iranians have increasingly taken to the streets in protest of the election's hotly disputed results. We know this in large part due to the fact that many of those Iranians have been using Twitter to swap information and inform those of us here in the outside world about what's going on in Tehran.

This is no doubt a triumph for the company and even for the role of technology in democracy more broadly. Jon Williams, the BBC world news editor, is perhaps sentimental but certainly not entirely wrong in asserting that "the days when regimes can control the flow of information are over."

Photo from the recent Tehran protests, posted by Flickr user .faramarz.

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Let's look at two films about information.

The first was created recently by Pittsburgh based Maya Design.

Let's say I put three mugs in front of you...If I then ask you the question, "do you see my favorite mug?" would you know which one it is?

The second was created in 1953 by Ray and Charles Eames.

...a nervous condition on the part of the receiver...could change the message from "I love you" to "I hate you." How do you combat it? One way is through redundancy, "I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you."

I think, among many telling differences between these two films, it is perhaps most telling what and how much information they choose to deliver about information.