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Why the iPad may be just what we need for Digital Inclusion. Chris Thorpe: “It may not be a Jesus phone, a Moses tablet or something that lives up to hype and hyperbole, but if it does something for the digital inclusion agenda it might live up to Steve Jobs saying it’s the most important thing he’s ever done.”

# 28th January 2010, 9:03 pm / chris-thorpe, ipad, steve-jobs, apple, inclusion

Curating conversations. Chris Thorpe has open-sourced the Guardian’s moderated Twitter backchannel app, for displaying back channels at high profile (and hence high potential for abuse) events. It’s a Python application that runs on App Engine.

# 16th July 2009, 7:34 pm / guardian, twitter, chris-thorpe, python, appengine