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BBC - dot.Rory: #getmehome: Social media and stranded travellers - 13 views

  • social-networking services which are helping some stranded travellers make their way home.
  • Five years ago they would have been individuals, texting and calling friends at home, but struggling to find others in the same predicament to pool resources.
  • But now they and many others have turned to the social networks to talk about their frustrations and then in many cases to act together to organise inventive ways of getting home.
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  • Twitter is proving the fastest way of starting a movement, or rather two movements.
  • #putmeup,
  • There have already been all sorts of inspiring stories
  • And not everyone was convinced that the likes of Twitter did anything more than cheer them up
  • get their message out loud and clear
  • People have turned to new ways of organising themselves, but they're still looking to the state in a time of crisis.
  • people helping each other instead of calling the state or companies
Damien Murtagh

US Library of Congress to archive Twitter - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 3 views

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      What are some of the implications of this?
  • digitally archive
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BBC News - Cloud computing: Privacy and trust up in the cloud - 11 views

  • Dropbox has more than four million customers who can upload digital content which is permanently synced across a number of their devices
Damien Murtagh

Use Google To Hack Into A Secrect World - Borntechie - 4 views

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