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In social media everybody could hear you scream… not any longer

May 4th, 2012
by Monty.
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It was when the Library of Congress in the US announced two years ago that it would archive every single tweet that people became serious about social media… and more to the point their data. The idea of all that data being saved made many people more reticent when posting their 140 characters on Twitter. [...]

Is social capital the new currency or a pile of Somaliland shillings?

Mar 25th, 2011
by Monty.
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Last summer I had an adventure and flew to Addis Ababa from Mumbai and then travelled through Ethiopia on African buses to the Red Sea and spent a week in Somaliland on the way. Right up there with the best of life. I had to hire a soldier for $15 per day, had a few [...]