Saturday, January 30, 2010

Twitter me this

I've finally signed up for Twitter, primarily because I expect to leave the country in a little over a week and be in China in a little over a month. I am interested in how difficult it will be to evade the Great Firewall of China, particularly given the current state of blocking there.

Nathan Freitas is both a social activist and a programmer and I have been following his blog for applications to install on my Google Android mobile. He addressed a Congressional hearing on new media called "Twitter against Tyrants: New Media in Authoritarian Regimes" last October and was a participant with Open Mobile Camp in November.

1 comment:

Mark Samborsky said...

Brian,

You can use those online file backup services to store important documents such as scanned copies of your passport information, etc. For example, if you upload files to mozy.com, you could [probably] download them later as necessary.