chat apps
Engaged Reading Digest: a changing language, unfluencers and dodging state surveillance
Some interesting reading on how the internet is changing language, reverse influencer psychology and apps in pretests.
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Afternoon Coffee Reading - 30th March 2011
The tabs in my browser were getting out of hand. Time for a link dump: * Is Twitter more media than social? [http://gigaom.com/2011/03/28/twitter-as-media-yes-celebrities-and-brands-still-matter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29] Interesting. I suspect that there’
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Student Protests, 1989 Style
Images from the 1989 Student Loans protests, which I covered as a student journalist.
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Indict the NYPD
[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/433752696/ "photo sharing")Indict the NYPD [http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/433752696/], originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth [http://www.flickr.com/people/adders/]. From a
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The Women In Black
In this day and age of political apathy, there’s at least one group I respect. Every week, the Women in Black make their silent protest on an issue that concerns them, under the statue of Edith Cavell on St Martin’s Lane. The stand questly, wearing or holding banners
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Latest on the anti-war protest
I was at a seminar at the RICS [http://www.rics.org.uk/] in Westminster this morning. A comment from the organiser about the increased security (the building is opposite the Houses of Parliament) prompted me to wander down to the on-going protests to see how they were going, a