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There are just some people who you sit up and listen to. Not only do they ooze authority, but they have the credentials to back up that clout. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is precisely one of those people. If he utters the words ‘World Wide Web’, then it’s only polite that we should stop and take […]
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‘Bad taste’, ‘goulish’ and ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’ – just a few of the phrases used to describe The Guardian’s reporting of 9/11 in its @911tenyearsago Twitter account. The idea was to live-tweet the 9/11 attacks as if they were happening in real time. On face value, @911tenyearsago provided an interesting exploration of how social media […]
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Given my line of work, it will hardly come as a surprise that I’m absolutely obsessed with how we consume our news. I’ll take it however it comes, whether it’s via print, digital or social media. My daily diet kicks off within minutes of my alarm with a quick check of my favourite news feeds […]
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It was only two years ago when David Cameron said he wasn’t on Twitter because he thought too many tweets “might make a twat”. How things have changed. Westminster has moved with the times and embraced a variety of social media platforms, with Number 10 now having its own pages on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. […]
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