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When hurricane Sandy flooded an ISP server basement with five feet of water, it brought down Gawker Media, BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post. The sites couldn't just wait for everything to come back
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The above is a screenshot from the official NUS Demo2012 Facebook event, due to be held tomorrow. The post, from NUS Vice President Union Development Vicki Baars reads: “Build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put the tories on teh top, put the Lib Dems in...
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Rapper Nicki Minaj has always been fantastic at engaging her fans on various forms of social media, notably Twitter, where she is followed by legions of devoted Barbz. Minaj has nearly 15 million ...
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After a tough introduction to life as a public company, Facebook is determinedly looking at ways to boost revenue, particularly in the critical mobile space. Having turned on carrier billing in the
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Despite having been in Government since the Coalition’s formation, first in the Treasury, then as Transport Secretary, and now International Development Secretary, Justine Greening has never yet been on Twitter. That’s all changed today though: Hello,...
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The Government Digital Strategy was formally launched last week. It’s an in depth document putting digital at the forefront of public service provision in the UK – digital by default’, and comes not long after the very smooth launch of the Gov.UK website....
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Mitt Romney may have lost to President Obama, but that doesn’t mean his campaign didn’t have a lasting effect on some people. Take Eric Hartsburg, who had a the R logo of the Romney/Ryan campaign tattooed to his face. Apparently he has been getting some...
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Sign up to the Despatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net This week Channel 4 showed a new Dispatches called “Nuclear War Games”. It showed Israelis simulating an attack on Iran, and trying to work out the variety of consequences....
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Kevin Sim, the director of Nuclear War Games shown in Dispatches on Channel 4, discusses the programme. Kevin Sim, the director of Nuclear War Games shown in Dispatches on Channel 4, discusses the programme.
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