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Yesterday Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, took to the lectern at a Montreal business conference and said over-use of his micro-blogging site is bad for your health. “I like the kind of engagement where you go to the website and you leave because you’ve found what you
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Antonia Kanczula On Friday 6 January, I was sat at my computer, as I often am, when a tweet popped up from my community website about a burglary in the area; I clicked back to the site to read more - a neighbour had seen Molly the pug being carried away
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When the Labour Party's Michael D Higgins was officially confirmed as the ninth Irish president on 29 October 2011, it was described as “one of the most remarkable comebacks in the state's history.” But what triggered this turnaround – and the collapse of his biggest rival, the
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Download 598042-city-interhacktives-talk-to-people-s-voice-media.mp3 Antonia Kanczula Using social media as a tool for empowerment, People’s Voice Media have helped to train a legion of community reporters in the UK and abroad. I talked to their community manager Teresa Wilson about their aims
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Antonia Kanczula Proving that modern communication tools can be used to reinterpret the past, an Oxford Uni history graduate has launched an ambitious six-year project to bring the Second World War (back) to life via Twitter. Alwyn Collinson, 24, is meticulously cataloguing every event - from eyewitness statements to military
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Antonia Kanczula Yet again, it’s been a busy week for quirky tales – from using social media to track disease outbreaks to a Mexican football team replacing their players' shirt names with Twitter handles. Proving that amongst its myriad benefits, Twitter can be a conduit for reliable, level-headed
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Antonia Kanczula There’s a great deal of public discourse about the corrosive impact of the internet on bonds and relationships – and our over-reliance on social media, to the detriment of real-life connections. But on the flipside, it has unparalleled ability to unite – give a voice to those
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Antonia Kanczula On our little Interhacktives blog, we're going to chatter - at length - about the wide, diverse and far-reaching tentacles of social media. In essence, the big stuff. But we also thought we'd shine a light on the off-beat stories of online connectedness - and