Inauguration Attendees Use Smartphones As Public Diaries

NPR | Jan. 21, 2013 2:26 p.m.

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Ailsa Chang

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The Presidential Inaugural Committee might have its first-ever smart phone app, but for the hundreds of thousands of onlookers flooding into the National Mall on Monday, there were plenty of other reasons to be clutching a mobile device. Many just wanted to say, "We came."