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#Twitter/Arab Spring: New Evidence from The #Monkey Cage and wherefore #bit.ly?
Twitter and the Arab Spring: New Evidence — The Monkey Cage. Again, the irony that bit.ly, the ubiquitous URL shortener is TLD based in Libya. Anyway, as PR for uprisings, Monkey’s piece indicates...
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Open Source Projects out there – an index: Radio, Press, Crowd-Sourcing, Maps
This is the index to open source crowd mapping sites and projects all over Planet Earth. Many use Twitter filtering, some not. Nothing here about the [doubtless] harvesting of this data by intelligence...
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Basic Preparedness – for bloggers in “iffy” places
From the Committee to Protect Journalists Independent bloggers ARE journalists, in all the sense of the word. From China, to Syria, to Occupy Wall Street, to Superstorm Sandy, new mobile media opens up...
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Egypt’s telecom cranks out a sweet valentine for free speech and shared crap
Telecom authority appeals YouTube ban | Egypt Independent. From a post at the Egypt Independent February 14, 2013 Russ Imrie Egypt’s banning (for 30 days) of YouTube’s hosted video trailer for “The...
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Brie at last or war’s a mouthful
Brie at last By Russ Imrie August 30, 2013 I am disturbed and I am concerned about the recent uptick in warmed-over meals and re-animated fast food appearing at the table. I had been so looking forward...
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