"If I can share my work online, I get more out than I put in; then I can add even more and benefit from others' expertise," said 15-year-old Nicola from Edinburgh here at the Internet Governance Forum. Her comment sounded just like 17-year-old Canadian cinematographer Mark Klassen's and that of an Australian student marveling that her own class blog had gotten "533 visits worldwide. Amazing or … [Read more...] about Citizenship & blogging in class
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Tweeting around the globe
Another quick glimpse of how international social media are: Twitter grew 109% in the past year, comScore says, and "Indonesia, Brazil, and Venezuela led the surge." Indonesia was No. 1, with 20.8% of Net users there having visited Twitter in June. As for Venezuela’s growth, it was "fueled in large part by President Hugo Chavez’s decision to join Twitter in late April," comScore reports. Nearly … [Read more...] about Tweeting around the globe