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More on Burma - Protests in Real Life and Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now the online channel has breathed new life into this surging wave and brought with it Facebook events, Myspace groups, Razoo causes, BBC News feeds updated real-time, Twitter posts about Wear A Red Shirt This Friday For Burma and countless IMs??? from friends telling friends telling friends. ll receive it.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. We’ve seen potential for those unsympathetic to the cause to use the technology too – a bit of an arms race created. Which causes a lot of Iranian politics to take place outside of the country. It’s about scale.

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Steve Bridger

Poverty has many causes. Monday, January 5, 2009 at 4:45 pm | Permalink Stuart G Hall wrote: Like the 5 a day meme, thanks. We have confirmed that belief – and that’s my biggest problem here. That’s otherwise known as a reliable banking system. Nope – a personal project. article here, forwarded on by [.]

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