The revolution within the revolution: How mobile devices and social media changed Tunisia
What is revealing about this revolution is the way in which citizens discovered it, how they informed one another, and how they mobilized around it. They used their mobile phones, now ubiquitous in North Africa, to communicate via text messaging and Twitter. For many Tunisians, their phones are their Internet. Theirs is a story about the democratization of media, a social revolution that wields the power to change lives as well as governments
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Rules for civility that Washington might get
Why should we behave politely, act respectfully or show good manners? Because it it matters. What the politicians and pundits in Washington could learn from an earnest community website.
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Democracy calls, who answers?
By far the most significant communications innovations of recent years, the mobile Internet and mobile applications have eclipsed the...
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Screen-sensitive glove keeps info at hand
You want to call a friend, check email or search for a restaurant. Pull out your touch-screen gadget and let your fingers do the work....
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Final Jeopardy: A machine that questions what it means to be human
The battle over intelligence is popular culture’s longest running show. Are computers smarter than people? Is the brain a second-rate...
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Bring it on. Calling all technovators, gamechangers and mediamakers to We Media 2011
Here’s how We roll in 2k11: We’re issuing a We Media challenge to create the brilliant city of the future; We’re awarding $50k to the best start-up ideas; We’re holding a boot camp for would-be entrepreneurs; We’re bringing the We Media conference back to New York; We’re adding new ways to think, create and change everything. There’s more coming. You should be, too.
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Journalism’s fifth stage of grief
Will acceptance lead to a brave new world for journalism?
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Our Saturday meetup: shoes for both feet
Has Wikileaks just reinvented investigative reporting? Is Flipboard the social magazine we’ve been waiting for? Can design hubs and...
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Flipboard gets the finger, needs a hand
One way or the other, Flipboard will make you flip. The new Pad app is either the personalized, social magazine you’ve been waiting...
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Flipboard gets the finger, needs a hand
One way or the other, Flipboard will make you flip. The new Pad app is either the personalized, social magazine you’ve been waiting...
Read MoreHow newspapers can matter again
Buy Monday's Washington Post. And Tuesday's. And Wednesday's. Or go to The Post's Top Secret America. Now imagine if newspapers everywhere did this all the time.
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Chill. Paddle. Create. Very cool.
Join us for creative chilling and a meetup at WeSpace at Lake Anne in Reston on August 7.
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