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- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.
- Mobile
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The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.
- Find
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It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Need
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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?
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
- Encourages
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The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.
- Focused
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
- Filtering
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
- Care
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People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us. Because what happens on a social network is you interact with the people that you have chosen to interact with.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at the 'New York Times,' you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we've invaded.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests you befriend anyone who has mentioned you in their posts. It then asks to access your e-mail account so you can connect with anyone with whom you regularly correspond.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.
- Comparatively
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.
- Old Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.
- Profit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity is an import-export business.
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