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		<title>Politics 3.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(An excerpt from my new book, Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands and Killing Traditional Media, just published by City Lights. To purchase a copy, go here. And for an an ebook from Amazon, go here.) On December 17, 2010, a young Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Just Out: Friends, Followers and the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Longtime readers of this blog will know that I began researching and writing here years ago about the ongoing digital information revolution and the impact of emerging social media. I&#8217;m pleased  to announce, therefore, the publication this week of my newest book, Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Is Not Your Friend. Mark Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend Either.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Imagine . . . that you knew which sites—or what news stories—people you trust found useful and which they disliked,” David Kirkpatrick wrote in the June 11, 2007 issue of Fortune magazine. “This isn&#8217;t fantasy. Facebook might make it possible, and soon. Yes, the social-networking site college kids spend so much time on—the one you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paranoia Strikes Deep at Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google co-founder Larry Page is paranoid&#8212;and justifiably so… As the Associated Press reported this week, Page &#8220;has a Facebook fixation…When he replaced his mentor Eric Schmidt as Google&#8217;s CEO last April, Page insisted that the company had to be more aggressive about countering the threat posed by Facebook&#8217;s ever-growing popularity.&#8221; Why? As I detail in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rick Santorum: Bowling Alone in the First Digital Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Santorum went bowling again this week. When right-wing Rick dropped in to Pla-Mor Lanes in Chilton, it marked the fourth pre-primary visit to a Wisconsin bowling alley by a man who actually took Bowling 101 for credit while matriculating at Penn State. In an interview about his rather extensive bowling background (he says he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roll Up for a Virtual Mystery Tour!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Is A Plural</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With my new, &#8220;lucid and erudite&#8221; book on social media about to be published, I&#8217;m just beginning the inexorable process of trying to cut through all the clutter and let people know of its existence. Since it&#8217;s all about the impact of the digital information revolution and its new social tools and technologies, I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officials Still Hiding the Truth about Fukushima</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the first &#8220;anniversary&#8221; of the devastating March 11, 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan passes, the ongoing disaster continues regularly to make front page news worldwide. One recent example came with the release of an interim report in December. A key difference between the two investigations, for example, involves accounts of what happened when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rush Limbaugh: Taking shock one step too far</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Is A Plural</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening Post on Al Jazeera is one of my favorite media programs in the world. This week LP and its energetic host Richard Gizbert look at &#8220;the Republican media machine&#8221; and how the Limbaugh controversy could impact the coming presidential election. I&#8217;m pleased to be included as a commentator once again, so please check it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#january 25 One Year Later: Social Media &amp; Politics 3.0</title>
		<link>http://roryoconnor.org/social-media/january-25-one-year-later-social-media-politics-3-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Is A Plural</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One year ago, a revolution began in Egypt that still reverberates there &#8212; as well as among other repressive rulers and regimes in Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and beyond, including thousands of miles away in New York City, where “Occupy Wall Street” protests in turn took root and then flowered into literally hundreds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends, Followers and the Future</title>
		<link>http://roryoconnor.org/social-media/social-mediajournalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Is A Plural</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business, and engage in politics. Share and share alike—the numbers say it all as billions of people worldwide flock to online media and use social networks to discover and spread news and [...]]]></description>
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