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How to find a brilliant in information garbage

To me the idea to collect twits of regular people looks very attractive and helpful for further generation and historians. I see only the one problem in that case. Library of congress should systematize all information in some easy to … Continue reading

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Mommy your TWEET was in my TEXTBOOK!!!

In addition to our public school failures, and the tax-dollars being wasted on a declining educational system, parents may have one more concern about their kids schooling in the future. The trend of public networking sites consuming most teenagers’ time … Continue reading

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TWITTER AND THE ONLINE WORLD!!!

In the modern world today, we live in a society where technological innovations are rapidly increasing. Twitter, a website which offers social networking and micro blogging service, enables users to send and read messages called tweets(Wikipedia).  Twitter is used by … Continue reading

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To tweet or not to tweet

Speaking as a person who personally does not participate in Twitter at all. I got the feeling that such capabilities twitter  has given so many to have a chance to communicate their thoughts from the most frivolous to the most … Continue reading

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Voyeurism at Large

In the older days when people recorded history on basic apparatuses, from cave walls to papyrus, record keeping was a messy and a difficult task to accomplish. Historians would have to make sure that the documents are in chronological order, … Continue reading

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History in the making…. Hope I’m in it

Probably one of the only people that isn’t on twitter nor amaze with it. But I think having twitter in the congress is some what a good idea. Yes some of the comments people will care leas to know but … Continue reading

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It’ll All Go Down In Twitter-ry

In today’s era, where information and technology have advanced beyond expectations, a trivial tweet you have just posted might change the course of how historians of the future define our generation or period in time. Twitter, an online social network … Continue reading

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Be careful what you tweet!!!

While I do think it could be useful to archive tweets, I also feel as though this could be a little much. Twitter account holders should be aware that what they write is available to the world could even come … Continue reading

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Times are changing

As time passes and technology advances, everyone, including historians, must keep up. Twitter, although it may store some mindless tweets, can be a great record of what life was like in 2011, 2012, and beyond. Historians will be able to … Continue reading

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Twitter…Bitter?

Twitter is one of the many social networking and microblogging services that allows you to follow others.  It collates announcements from two diferent people and encourages backchannel conversations.  It allows for new connections and a sense of solidarity.  In my … Continue reading

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