Author: Ben Werdmuller
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Andrew Orlowski vs Paul Carr and Twestival
A group of unpaid volunteers used social media to create a global event that has already – before anything like the final total has been counted – raised a six figure amount to provide clean water to some of the world’s poorest people. Your response to that was sneering and deliberately skewed to prove your…
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A projector inside your cellphone
TI sees projectors as popular as cell cameras. And they may well be right. The cellphone really is turning into the ‘portable multimedia computer’ that Nokia always talks about: an Internet connected device that allows you to download and play content, as well as record voice, video, photographs and documents and send them back into…
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links for 2009-02-16
Back home in Telal Howa I'm posting this not so much to highlight the post, as the blog itself (run by an acquaintance of an acquaintance). When journalists weren't allowed into Gaza, it was an invaluable read – and a lesson in the role of blogging in a wider media tapestry. I don't think citizen…
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links for 2009-02-14
Pew Internet: Twitter and status updating Nothing particularly new here, but a useful study to be able to point to. 19% of 18-24 year olds have used Twitter or similar, and users of such services use technology to communicate, gather and share information at a high rate, as opposed to passive consumption. (tags: media web2.0…