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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Lawrie Zion <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, 15
March 2010 8:21 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Lawrie Zion<BR><B>Subject:</B> FW: #ozelection
— a nation tweeting to itself —
http://www.upstart.net.au/ozelection/<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left>A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to
itself</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">US playwright Arthur Miller, 1961</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">At upstart (<B><A
href="http://www.upstart.net.au">http://www.upstart.net.au</A></B>), we've have
taken Arthur Miller's words to heart but with a twist. With a federal election
looming, we're inviting citizen journalists around the country to tweet rather
than talk.</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">To that end, we've created a Google Map/Twitter
mashup where citizen journalists can tweet their comments and images (via
TwitPic) about the federal election and it will be plotted on a map of
Australia.</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">To participate, simply insert the hashtag
#ozelection along with the postcode of your present location into your
election-related tweets and they will appear in the twitter feed and on the
map.</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Better still, snap a picture from the campaign
trail on your mobile and send it to your TwitPic account along with #ozelection
and your postcode and it will appear on the site.</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">If you're at the shopping centre during the
campaign and see Kevin Rudd or Tony Abbott kissing babies in the food court,
tell us about it or tweet a picture. In time, we're hoping that A Nation
Tweeting to Itself will become one of the biggest citizen journalism projects
ever attempted in Australia.</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><B>To visit the site, go to: <A
href="http://www.upstart.net.au/ozelection/">http://www.upstart.net.au/ozelection/</A></B></DIV>
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