Major Paul Smyth is one of the people responsible for changing the Ministry of Defence's approach to social media particularly in the context of front line operations. I've spoken to him previously for the Frontline Club about his Frontline bloggers......more

Associated Press is reporting that two people working for the aid group, Médecins Sans Frontières, have been shot in Mogadishu. At least one person is believed to have been killed. The incident is reportedly related to an internal staffing issue -......more

The Chief of the Defence Staff gave an annual lecture to the Royal United Services Institute last night. General Sir David Richards spoke broadly about the global environment, the response of the armed forces and particular strategic challenges.He argued that......more

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! ......more

This year I bookmarked at least 530 links on delicious. I know that because I try to tag each bookmark by year - I'm three hundred or so links down on last year's total of 854. Seeing as we're coming......more

Russian blogger and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny has been arrested after participating in post-election protests in Moscow against the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.  The BBC has a good profile of Navalny which explains how his Livejournal blog gained traction for exposing corruption: "The popularity of......more

 The Ottawa Citizen has started a memorial Twitter account for members of the Canadian Forces who have lost their lives in conflict.The account will tweet the name of one service member at 11 minutes past every hour. The name is......more

On the eve of the fall of Sirte, the BBC's World News Editor has revealed that the Foreign Office "strongly recommended" to broadcasters that they pull their journalists out of Libya prior to the start of NATO's bombing campaign. Speaking at......more

So yesterday I tried to fit too many things at too many different places into one day and ended up being late for the Media Society event on reporting Libya and the 'Arab Spring'. But here are a few incomplete notes......more

I'm breaking the radio silence on the blog to post the introduction to my latest book chapter for Mirage in the Desert: Reporting the Arab Spring. (Not to be confused with Mirage in the Dessert...that is something entirely different.)My chapter......more