This link has been bookmarked by 17 people . It was first bookmarked on 17 Apr 2008, by Adam Bohannon.
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20 Apr 08
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Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short messaging service to tap out a single word on his cellular phone: ARRESTED. The message went out to the cell phones and computers of a wide circle of friends in the United States and to the mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers in Egypt who are the subject of his graduate journalism project.
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The next day, he walked out a free man with an Egyptian attorney hired by UC Berkeley at his side and the U.S. Embassy on the phone.
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18 Apr 08
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17 Apr 08
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dr techIn case you wanted to read further into the wonderful world of TWITTER
socialmedia Twitter politics egypt activism ITGS microblogging
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Adam BohannonWhen Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter.
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16 Apr 08
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