Mark's background articles; timely, extremely well written and insightful daily stream of news from the battleground in Thailand's capitol should win awards. His latest - for Saturday's Globe and Mail "Twitter’s role in Bangkok conflict unprecedented" - notes how Twitter has fostered the Red Shirts, maybe was a tool that lead to the escalation...
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While the print, and to some extent TV, media have been lamenting in editorials and articles their hardships, they have been lax in reporting a real shift in community based activism, of which the base is social media
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On the basis of age, Internet use increased among all groups but at different rates. In 2009, 98% of people aged 16 to 24 went online, up slightly from 96% two years earlier. Of those aged 45 or older, two-thirds (66%) went online during 2009, up from 56% in 2007. This age group, traditionally...
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Providing data sets to the public would mitigate much of the angst which is now apparent (see the anti-HST petition, or johnsonstreetbridge.ORG as ongoing British Columbia and Victoria examples), and internal data sets would offer efficiencies. Important, but I digress, what interests me is information culture...watch the video, then think about some following...
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