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Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
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Do you remember where you were on September 11? Ten years later -- the new question isn’t where you were, but how you found out. News of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden’s death didn’t just dominate Twitter Sunday night- it broke on Twitter.
“Word of Osama bin Laden’s death created a frenzy on social networking sites. Even before the President’s official word came out. Twitter says 4,000 tweets were flying per second during President Obama’s address last night.”
CNET's Greg Sandoval is calling it a major turning point for citizen journalism.
"Tonight's news was by far the weightiest story that Twitter has ever helped break.”
A New York Times reporter adds....
“Twitter scooped the world. #BinLadenDead”
Twitter has played a prominent role in recent Middle Eastern affairs, and a blogger for the Atlantic says it’s time to give credit where credit’s due.
“Twitter has once again proven its worth. It might not win wars or spark revolutions -- that's still being debated -- but its value is clear to those of us who watched their feeds fill with news and notes... Newspapers might be dead or dying, but traditional ink-on-paper reporters were able to share this story much faster than cable news outlets by adapting to this technology.”
But a blogger for ZDNet says, let’s not get carried away.
“Twitter probably trumped the mainstream media—sort of. But for me it’s downright silly to call bin Laden’s death a moment for Twitter. Or Google. Or any other tech hook we’re trying to find. Let’s get real. Bin Laden’s death is a moment for all of those troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
A writer for the Baltimore Sun suggests journalists and others may be trying to take Twitter to a new level it’s not ready for.
“Dozens of … folks ‘broke’ this story on Twitter -- and while I am intrigued and even think I like the social nature of that, I am troubled by the lack of accountability or context that goes with it.”
But a writer for Boston.com blog Gatekeeper argues, that lack of accountability doesn’t mean Twitter isn’t valuable.
“...most of what was reported on Twitter came from people retweeting what Washington reporters were posting... Twitter allowed me to instantly follow what all the major news organizations ... were reporting. Twitter doesn’t report news, but it disseminates it in a way it has never been disseminated before.”
And while most experts agree Sunday night’s tweeting was immense, it wasn’t a record. According to Tech News Daily...
“There were 6,939 tweets per minute on New Year's Eve, beating the former record of 3,283 tweets when Japan beat Denmark in the World Cup last year.”
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