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Daniel Bou Diab

Scottish 'border checks' warning - 0 views

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    An independent Scotland could face the prospect of checks at its border with England, Home Secretary Theresa May has warned. It comes after a conference speech when Ms May claimed independence could lead to mass immigration problems. Afterwards, the home secretary said she envisaged "some sort of border check" if Scotland joined the European Schengen common travel area.
Dima Saber

After Kony, could a viral video change the world? | World news | The Observer - 0 views

  • Viral dissemination has been a feature of the internet almost from the beginning, but the deliberate exploitation of it dates from Independence Day in the US in 1996, when Hotmail was launched by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It was the first "webmail" system (allowing people to send and receive email using an internet browser) and its makers had the brilliant idea of appending a footer to every message sent stating that it had been sent by Hotmail and inviting the recipient to "get a free Hotmail account" at www.hotmail.com.Viral dissemination received a really powerful boost with the launch of YouTube in 2005. Thereafter, people were able to post striking, amusing or daft videos online and the service made it easy to "share" anything that viewers liked. This is what led to the LOLcat explosion and the astonishing viewing totals for charming videos like Charlie Bit My Finger, which has been watched more than 12 million times since it first appeared in 2007.Viral dissemination was also responsible for making Bruno Ganz, the actor who played Adolf Hitler in Downfall, the 2004 film about the last days of Hitler, into the most famous German actor in the world – though in this case the makers of the film came to regard its online notoriety as a mixed blessing as parodies of one of its climactic scenes started to spread virally across the network.
    • Dima Saber
       
      An examination of the spread of the Kony video suggests that one weak tie in particular may have been critical in launching it to its present eminence. Her name is Oprah Winfrey and she tweeted: "Have watched the film. Had them on show last year" on 6 March, after which the graph of YouTube views of the video switches to the trajectory of a bat out of hell. Winfrey, it turns out, has 9.7 million followers on Twitter.
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    This article is pretty interesting in the sense that it gives some answers to most of the questions you all raised in the discussion topic on "Kony? What about America's war criminals" 
Miriam Assaad

Putin claims victory in presidential vote - 1 views

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    Vladimir Putin has claimed victory in Russia's presidential election, which the opposition and independent observers say has been marred by widespread violations. Putin addressed a rally of tens of thousands of his supporters just outside the Kremlin, thanking his supporters for helping foil foreign plots aimed at weakening the country.
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