I am picking out a few of the more interesting links from my 2011 delicious bookmarks. On Monday, I selected five from my 'war reporting' tag.
Today, I've selected another five from among the bookmarks I labelled 'Twitter' in my delicious account.
Enjoy!
1. 'Visualising the New Arab Mind'
Computational historian Kovas Boguta visualises the Twitter influence network around the revolution in Egypt.
2. 'The man who tweeted the attack on Osama Bin Laden - without knowing it'
"Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)."
The Washington Post collected his tweets using Storify.
Meanwhile, Twitter's rapid uptake by all and sundry included the Taliban in May and Somali insurgent group Al Shabaab by December.
A rather surreal interactive war of words online now accompanies serious military activity on the ground as ISAFMedia and alemarahweb engage in disputes over Afghanistan while HSMPress take on Kenya's military spokesperson Major Emmanuel Chirchir.
"Potentially relevant tweets are fed into an intelligence pool then filtered for relevance and authenticity, and are never passed on without proper corroboration. However, without "boots on the ground" to guide commanders, officials admit that Twitter is now part of the overall "intelligence picture"."
5. British Prime Minister considers curbing Twitter use after UK riots
August's riots in the UK prompted consideration of whether the use of Twitter and social media should be restricted.
As it turned out, BlackBerry Messenger appeared to be the communication tool of choice and recent research by the LSE/Guardian claims that Twitter was more useful in the aftermath to organise clean ups than to incite disorder.
