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Listed below are comments made by mactabby between Wednesday, 6th August 2008 and Thursday, 4th December 2008.

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Mumbai, Twitter and live updates 1:44pm on 04 Dec 2008 I think it's absolutely right that you should use twitter and other live community services as one of the tools at your disposal. They are always the early-warning canaries and will break any major story first.

I remember in 1989, long before the web, let alone twitter, sitting next to someone at Uni who was on an internet chat room (or what served for one then) when one of the other users in the chat room said they were experiencing a major earthquake. It turned out to be the San Fransisco earthquake which was the headline story for the week.

Earlier this year I was woken by the earthquake in Lincolnshire and was surprised how slow the TV news was to report it - and whilst it broke on the BBC website first, there had already been much discussion on twitter and elsewhere before your story went up.

Yes, the quality of unedited journalism from the general public can be pretty poor, but for responiveness and detail, you can't beat the bloggers.
Could Foster bear the British banner in Beijing? 02:46am on 06 Aug 2008 Not only did Sir Steve carry the flag in Atlanta, I'm pretty sure he carried it one-handed, which was some feat!

Foster for me, with Hoy and Idowu as runners-up.

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