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FarmVille for Change: New York Times Columnist to Launch Social Game | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:55 PM | Sam Laird |
|  | New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has been one of mainstream journalism's most eager adopters of Internet tools. The Pulitzer Prize winner has a sterling reputation as a human rights reporter, and is a major proponent of Facebook, Twitter...
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10 Social Good Kickstarter Projects Seeking to Change the World | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:18 PM | Matt Petronzio |
|  | Everyone wants to change the world, but the money to do so is rarely available. That's where Kickstarter comes in. Although Kickstarter is primarily a funding platform for entrepreneurs of all kinds, activists, humanitarians and other pioneers of...
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Twitter Revealed Epidemic Two Weeks Before Health Officials [STUDY] | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:35 PM | Kate Freeman |
|  | Health providers have suspected for some time that social media might be an early indicator of an epidemic. Now they have proof. In particular, a new report shows that Twitter provided an early account of the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti....
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How Technological Justice Can Fight Global Poverty | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:36 PM | Simon Trace |
|  | Human development has gone hand-in-hand with technical change. Technology (defined for these purposes as both knowledge and tools) enables people to achieve well-being with less effort and drudgery, or at lower cost and with fewer resources....
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The Future of History Is on Facebook [POLL] | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:31 PM | Sam Laird |
|  | When University of Nevada librarian Donnelyn Curtis set up fictitious Facebook accounts for two students from the 1910s, she was just trying to help local history become "a little more relevant" for students. But the profiles have gone viral, and...
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