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Data is the future, if it's not already the present. At a recent press conference announcing US military investment in 'Big Data' projects, the acting director for DARPA noted that the Atlantic Ocean contains 100 billion, billion gallons of......more

Yesterday at the Frontline Club, there was a discussion about Invisible Children's controversial Kony2012 video.Whatever else you think about it (and a lot of people have a lot of thoughts), the campaign has succeeded in raising awareness of the crimes......more

I'm at the POLIS Journalism Conference where we have been talking about Reporting Revolution with the BBC's Lyse Doucet, Lindsey Hilsum from Channel 4 and Tom Coghlan at The Times. "An extraordinary time to be a journalist"All the panellists expressed their......more

This is an extended news report on the Israel Defence Forces' social media activities including interviews with the soldiers updating the various IDFSpokesperson accounts.The video is a year old, but I've been looking for this sort of material for a while. The......more

NATO has launched a new interactive social media platform called WE-NATO. It's primarily a Wordpress blog which will attempt to encourage an "eye level conversation with netizens out there in the web".WE-NATO also wants to livestream a series of talks......more

This Al Jazeera English report on Syria's citizen journalists is interesting.  When people in the media industry talk about "embedded journalists" they usually mean journalists embedding with military units. It is, of course, possible to 'embed' with other people or organisations......more

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

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

"The ability to communicate to groups of people easily and on a regular basis is more powerful than previous incarnations of 'word of mouth' technologies."Click here for more on the BBC College of Journalism website.........more

The special joint event organised by the Frontline Club and the BBC Arabic Service brought together some of the key players, journalists and experts to discuss what has taken place in Egypt over the last few months. The first half......more