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YouTube - Intelligence Squared Debate: Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. The Catholics

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stephen fry and christopher hitchens vs catholics

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dream, Fri 6/11/09

I was in some sort of video game. The video game resembled work. A woman told me off because she said 'take down' to me and I didn't understand what she meant. I asked her, and she told me to stop being smart with her. I said I really didn't know what she meant and was sorry. She just told me to drop what I was holding and leave, as all employees were instructed to do so.

There was a part of the place we were in that was the 'hard' part of the video game. We all kept getting killed.

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My mother and brother were arguing. Apparently the only way I could settle the argument was by phoning Stephen Fry. I rang him, and we were looking at the same page of a book, comparing the illustration. I corrected him and he thanked me. I was telling my brother and mother that I corrected Stephen Fry who knows all about something! They didn't know who he was. I didn't understand how they could not know when we'd all lived in England for so long.

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Stephen Fry as The Cheshire Cat in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

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Andy Wk4 - All hail the Fry!

Social capital is an elusive term with many ideas floating about concerning its definition. Giddens (2000) said that

“Social Capital refers to trust networks that individuals can draw on for social support, just as financial capital can be drawn upon to be used for investment. Like financial capital, social capital can be expanded-invested and reinvested”.

Loosely put in my words, the definition of social capital can be summarised as the value, and intangible currency of trust. To be more specific, social capital can be considered the attributed value something has in creating and using social connections for personal application.

For those of us with little social capital there is the notion of borrowing someone else’s capital to use for your own purposes.  Just like in Giddens explanation, social capital can be borrowed in the same way you may borrow money to buy something. An individual seeking to gain something yet lacking the social capital to achieve this will borrow a willing persons social capital to get what they want.

As an example of this we can take the case of borrowed social capital used by Nia Roberts. Nia Roberts is interested in her music becoming famous. Due to her age this is very difficult and getting people to listen to her creations is hard.

On the other hand a famous celebrity like Stephen Fry has great social capital and through his Twitter account reaches over 832,000 people. By contacting Fry and asking him to talk about her music on his twitter account, Nia hoped to borrow Fry’s social capital to help promote herself.

The economic links with this are obvious as Nia can reach a great many more people through use of Fry’s social capital and this in return can grant possible economic capital gains if people then buy her music.

Social capital as a theory is very interesting but it’s hard to prove that any capital exchange went on in this case. Obviously Nia borrowed Fry’s influence here, but no exchange of capital is immediately obvious between the two. Possibly the concept of reinvested capital can be applied, in that Fry may actually benefit by supporting an artist he likes in the long run. As Nia gains capital, so does Fry as the investment of his social capital comes to maturity with Nia’s gains.

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Stephen Fry wins Gadget Personality of the Year at the T3 Gadget Awards 2009

The rather brilliant and legendary Stephen Fry has won Gadget Personality of the year at the T3 Gadget Awards 2009 in London.

The actor, comedian, playwright, blogger and gadget freak has been recognised for his utter passion for gadgets and the influence he has in technology. He was one of the first to embrace the microblogging phenomenon that is Twitter and currently has over 835,000 followers.

Congratulations Mr Fry.

You can follow him on Twitter: @stephenfry
Take a look at his website: www.stephenfry.com

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Stephen Fry observes a modern coelurosaur mating ritual

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'You are being shagged by a rare parrot' - Last Chance To See - BBC Two

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100 Days of Twitter Turned Into Pictures

"100 Days of Twitter Turned Into Pictures"  |  Mashable

British actor and writer Stephen Fry loves Twitter, has over 750,000 followers and updates it daily. His tweets, however, became a lot more interesting during the past 100 days, as artist Morgan Ritchie took one tweet every day and turned it into an illustration.

The project is called 100 Days of Fry, and it ended on September 9th, when the 100th illustration was posted. You can see all the illustrations on Morgan Ritchie’s site or on his TwitPic account.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Via Mashable)

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