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The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.
Ethan Zuckerman
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It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
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You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.
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Google doesn't really forget.
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If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
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A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
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The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
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Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
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Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.
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On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before.' And it's a way of essentially saying, 'I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.'
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Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.
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The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.
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