Digital Diplomacy

July 18, 2010

It was a Wednesday night in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, and Jared Cohen, the youngest member of the State Department’s policy planning staff, and Alec Ross, the first senior adviser for innovation to the secretary of state, were taking their tweeting very seriously. Cohen had spent the day in transit from D.C.; Ross hadn’t eaten Continue reading

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Once Spain scored its winning goal, that number passed 3,000 posts per second.As I wrote last week, this year’s World Cup was unlike any sporting or television event I have experienced. It was the first World Cup that offered full access to video and professional commentary online, coupled with the vociferous chants of team pride Continue reading

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MATT REYNOLDS, an assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Duke University, wears other hats, too — including that of co-founder of two companies. These days, his interest is in a real hat now in prototype: a hard hat with a tiny microprocessor and beeper that sound a warning when dangerous equipment Continue reading

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Famous football fanatics

July 12, 2010

Ian Botham is a legendary England cricketer and during his incredible career, he also managed to play for English league side Scunthorpe United. Botham told Football Fanzone about his love for “The Iron.”Is it true that you are a Scunthorpe fan?I’ve gone a bit more grassroots and back to where I played, and that’s Scunthorpe. Continue reading

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Under a tent on a Southern evening, Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher shared what their wedding planner called “a spiritual expression of their love” — a special moment for a “very special couple.”
The country star, 27, and her hockey player beau, 30, tied the knot at a luxury resort Saturday before 250 friends and family Continue reading

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You’ve seen him on-screen in dozens of movies, but what’s Boston-native Ben Affleck like when the cameras aren’t rolling?
“He’s kind of what you expect,” Rebecca Hall, his costar in his upcoming film, “The Town,” tells “W” magazine in its August issue. “He’s incredibly smart; he’s good fun. It’s got to be odd being that famous, Continue reading

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The Wall Street Journal reported some new details about the long-rumored Google music service, this time with a tasty Android twist. Google’s (Google) plan, it seems, is to launch a download service first — one that is tied to the company’s search engine — and then to progress to an online subscription service by 2011. Continue reading

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Nokia has taken Apple to task for comments made by Steve Jobs about how users experiencing reception problems on their new iPhone 4 devices should “avoid holding it that way” (“that way” meaning a grip that blocks the antenna).The maker of Symbian-based smartphones authored a post on its blog called “How Continue reading

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