Before its demise, Kodak was held up as an exemplary case of how to do good social media.

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Before this case he had been considered "a man of previous exemplary good character", he said.

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But such Luddism is particularly curious in Mr Obama's case, given that he is surgically attached to his BlackBerry, his presidential campaign made exemplary use of the internet, and he has used YouTube to great effect to deliver his message directly to viewers, circumventing the mainstream media in the process.

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