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Stephen Downes

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A couple of weeks ago Alec Couros wrote Shiny Happy Internet about the support received by someone dying of cancer, and today Dean Shareski writes of the outpouring of support given to a girl whose video on bullying has touched a nerve. And these, I will say, are the things that keep me coming back to the internet. We can get news, advertising and programming anywhere - heck, we're inundated with it - but we can't get real stories about human sympathy anywhere else but on the internet. It's a sad commentary on the state of media that empathy is so devalued, that the only way we can see into each others' lives it to create that access ourselves. But the fact that we do this, at this moment in history, offers a measure of hope

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