Tracking Twitter reponses to Obama’s Town Hall in China
Earilier today Barack Obama had one of his famous ‘Town Hall Meetings’ in Shanghai, where he took questions from Chinese youth in attendance and from questions posed on the internet. Naturally, there were some interesting responses to all this on Twitter. As a sort of exercise in ‘Twitter coverage,’ I tried experimenting with Chris’ TwitBlog [...]
Tracking the Urumqi Riots on Drop.io
Over the past few days we’ve seen some pretty startling events go down in Urumqi. The riots there have left 156 people dead (both Han and Uighur) and more than 800 injured so far. Like any breaking event in China, the early hours are pretty critical in making sure that photos and videos that leak [...]
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