Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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Serendipity and Twitter

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As a tech guy who also plays a social entrepreneur, I often get asked by my SE buddies about what are the practical use of a tool like Twitter. But rather than making this an extensive essay on the glories of social media, I just want to give some examples from my UK trip, just from Twitter. Working the exit options to get home.

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Jamie Love of KEI took the above picture of ACB's Eric Bridges, NFB's Scott LaBarre (and his wife Anahit Galechyan) and me at the meeting: I was busy tweeting what I was hearing at my Twitter handle of @JRandomF. blind TVI treaty jrandomf Twitter WIPO SCCR20. I was one of the co-drafters of the treaty language] The U.S.

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Benetech, Bookshare and Google Summer of Code

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As for this project, with the limited time frame, I have limited the social network integration to Facebook and Twitter. So why not give Go Read some space in social networks? Users can share interesting books on social networks.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In her spare time, she updates her Twitter and Facebook feeds and engages with her Kindle, iPod and other assorted tech toys. A specialist in technology and culture, Janet came to work for Benetech this summer as a communications fellow after a long career in dotcoms and newspapers, most recently USA Today.

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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

El-Fatah said that rate limits on Twitter, real name policies on Facebook and the drive to monetize every online transaction, limits the usefulness of technology for activists. El-Fatah, who will face a military tribunal, noted that 12,000 Egyptian civilians are now being held in military prisons for participating in the revolution.